NU Choir Winter Concert 2016

Every year since we moved to Astana, we look forward to attending NU Choir concerts. They do two each school year, one in the winter and one in the spring. In the past two years they asked kids to sing a couple of songs during their winter concert. This time the choir director wrote to us and asked if one of our girls could sing a solo a capella part with the choir. We volunteered Veronika, though she was happy to do it anyway. The song she was supposed to sing is called “Hoist the Colours” from the Pirates of the Caribbean. She memorized her part and join the choir for the last couple of practices before the concert.

The concert was on November 18 this year. It was a bit earlier than the in the previous years because the semester this year was ending earlier. They gave our family VIP seats (the front row) because Nika was in the concert. Unfortunately, Spencer had to miss it because he had a conference in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Filling up the Hall

Our front row seats. Awesome!

The opening song - Can't Stop the Feeling

Every year they get better and better!

This next video is an acapella tribute to Leonard Cohen who died two weeks earlier.

Nika's solo part

She isn't used to all of the public attention

The choir as always did an amazing job, and so did Nika! One of my favorite parts of the concert was the performance by the student orchestra. They played two pieces, one from the Games of Thrones and the other from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Performed with mostly Kazakh folk instruments those pieces sounded very unique.

The student orchestra did an amazing job!

Pirates of the Caribbean 

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