John Colton's blog

We (the Utah Baroque Ensemble) had a concert last weekend. It went fabulously, even though our second violinist failed to appear. Martha, our director, ended up pulling a violinist out of the audience to substitute at the last minute. The substitute looked over the music for ~20 minutes as we were singing other songs, while her husband ran home to fetch her violin, and then came right up to the stand for the Bach cantata. Amazing.

I've posted some recordings from the concert:
http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/colton/personal/choral_music.html

I think they are the best any choir I've been in has ever sounded, be it the UBE or my former choir the La Crosse Chamber Chorale. As one of the choir members observed at practice last night, "The recordings sound like the professional choirs I've heard on CD."

If you live in Utah, you can still catch us at a follow-up concert this Sunday (email me for details if you need them). Also, if you want to hear the rest of the recorded concert, let me know and I'll help you out (I don't want to publicly post the rest of the recordings due to copyright restrictions).