Big Band Hopes

 

On the 289th day of 2021, the Sherr Family did something we have been waiting 574 extra days to do!  10/16/2021 was the night of the four-time postponed Michael Bublé concert!  Now, that is SO close to having been 289 x 2 but I'll take the numerology within a standard deviation!  Eighteen months and 25 days and it was WORTH THE WAIT!  Wow do I love his sound and the THIRTY-TWO piece orchestra behind him just made the music that much better.  Tonight I thus have Big Band Hopes.  It was great that Alexa and Anna wanted to come to this concert with us (first time in a LONG time just the four of us have all been out together) and even better that they were singing along and enjoying it.  I hope that Big Band and the Bublé/Connick, Jr. (etc) sound can persevere.  It's not the modern day musical tastes of today's youth, but it is too amazing of a genre to die off.  Classical music continues to go on strong with symphonies and other ensembles keeping the music playing.  I hope that people like Michael Bublé and Harry Connick, Jr. and, yes, my good friend Jeff Coon (my college-life Michael Bublé) can keep the Big Band sound and the "Classical American Songbook" going on strong.  I know I will see Michael Bublé again, I hope, when he returns to the area - what a great night of music!

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