Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
Congrats to all involved in what the National Concert Hall insist on calling their Family Christmas Show, but I shall refer to as "The Snowman". Wonderful music from the Orchestra of the NCH under Fergus Sheil, great dancing and singing from all the boys and girls and a visit from Santa, complete with sleigh! My (almost) two year old was enthralled by Mr. Claus appearing and spent almost five minutes just staring agog at the stage, pointing and saying, "Santa! Santa!" This is our second year attending the show with the small child who loves music and appears to have a particular fascination with orchestras. She didn't repeat her performance of last year, conducting the orchestra by waving her arms in the air for the entire show - much to the amusement of the first and second violins - but she clearly relished every note of the performance.
On a note unrelated to the music, NCH staff were selling a Snowman colouring book and colouring pencils before and after the show for the princely sum of one euro. I hope this covered their costs because this was extremely well received by the small child (and by the parents!) It's the little things like this that make me keep returning to the NCH, and not just for the Christmas show - though we have decided that The Snowman will be one of the first of our family traditions. We also picked up an NCH gift voucher as a Christmas present and the presentation box and bag is very nice - highly recommended as a gift for that person who already has everything.
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