This morning the boychoir will attend the Award Ceremony in the large hall of the Stadthalle to receive their TWO SILVER MEDALS. Congratulations, boys!
Here is a picture from my new best friend (the man that took a picture of the boys at the parade) of Francis at the ceremony. This picture is clearer, but from further away. Francis is in the front, 1/3 of the way on the left. You can see more pictures from the same photographer here.
The schedule from Roger says, "Common singing with Gotthilf Fischer (traditional german folk songs)" in the Hauptplatz. Here are a couple other pictures I found of the Hauptplaz. Such beautiful buildings surround it! The Graz city hall seems to be on one side of the open plaza.
All I found about the common singing event on the World Choir Games website is this (scroll down to page 24/25 for July 13th). My guess is that this will be a big concert of many choirs. Perhaps the boys will also sing the two official songs of the game there.
The first part of the World Choir Games ends this evening with a concert of the champions and a closing ceremony. At this point, the Games website has not yet posted the official results for the medal round. Check here to see which choirs are the champions.
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Results are in. Interestingly enough, the choir that won the Children's Choir category scored lower than LOLCB in the Sacred Music Category.
Congratulations boys!
This is a tangential topic, but the Mansfield University choir of PA, which won championships in two categories (not our categories) has a tour blog too. It's no Viking Today of course, :-) but it's interesting to see the perspective from someone else trying to provide updates to parents anxiously waiting at home. Here's a link: http://www.xanga.com/mansfieldconcertchoir
Corinne, do you have a link to the boys' scores? The .pdf on the WCG website only gives an overview.
Here's the blog from the Las Pinas Boys choir, who competed directly with our boys. They won the championship in the Children's Chiors Category, and took a silver in Musica Sacra category, along with our boys.
http://lpbcsja.blogspot.com/
All that I could find on the Stellenbosch University Choir, who won the championship in the Musica Sacra - Open Category, is the following press release. It's really interesting to see the press releases from our competition.
http://www.sun.ac.za/News/NewsItem_Eng.asp?Lang=2&ItemID=14192
There are a bunch of YouTube Videos of the Las Pinas Boys Choir at: http://youtube.com/lpbcsja
I saved the downloads with all the scores as well as the medal distribution. If we can't post them here tomorrow, I'll have Mary Jo send them out as an e mail attachment.
I couldn't resist one more comment. The concert review we all read earlier in the tour has been updated. Corinne
"CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LAND OF LAKES CHOIRBOYS VIKING CHOIR EARNING FOR TWO SILVER MEDALS AT THE 2008 WORLD GAMES CHOIR IN GRAZ, AUSTRIA!"
So, this message comes from the website of the Land of Lakes Choir Boys, in two categories in which they landed silver medals they have won! BRAVO !!!!! The two categories were Musica Sacra and children's choirs.
I do not really (think)any other choirs could be even better .... ;)
Sincerely
sherab
For an excellent review and wonderful pictures of our boys go to:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.casperworld.com
Thanks sherab!
OOPS!
I forgot to include that you need to go to:
"Forum" on the top left side and then click:
"International Young Stars-Music"
Then you will see:
"Land of Lakes Choirboys"
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