Monday, October 6, 2008
The Sound of Music
I love music. To me it’s is a language on it’s own. I listen to all most music genres, be it blues, rock, country, gospel and others. After all,, variety is the spice of life. People who restrict themselves to one genre are missing out. Music is one of my greatest loves. I write, compose and sing it. The sound of music is the sweetest sound in the world to me.
This being the case, I could not resist entering into St Peter’s Cathedral here at Rhodes yesterday evening. I was heading to the labs from my res, Winchester. My intention was to do some serious blogging. You know, the hundred posts thing. (Heaven help my quota!) I saw a group of people practising outside and they told me it was an evening of choral praise by Christian societies at Rhodes. Well, I decided to listen to the sound of their music.
Some people are vocal magicians. I had not heard such beautiful music in a long time. The Adventist society kicked off the evening and really proved that they are the kings of acapella. There was this one lady with a really sweet voice. I had to remove my jersey because the Adventists really made the cathedral hot. Various groups, including the Methodist society performed. I’m not sure about the Methodists because they used the clever strategy of getting the audience to sing along and we really could not gauge their performance as the whole cathedral joined their song, which had us all dancing.
But the highlight of the evening for me was a group called Voice of Glory. Those guys know their stuff. I was impressed by the lead vocalist in their first song, who made singing seem easy. She had a really powerful voice and she did crazy things with it. But I was really bowled over by a lady who happens to be a fellow tutling. She led one of the songs, which happens to be my favourite gospel song, Hlonolofatsa. Sotho, I think. I had heard she could sing, but I did not expect such a performance. But she really blew me away when she did a solo. “My God”, was all I could say. I instantly fell head over heels in love. With her voice of course.
Anyway, it was a blessed evening of praise and worship at St Peter’s yesterday. Rhodes certainly has loads of musical talent. I’m seriously considering forming a record label. Loads of talent would be at my disposal. Anyway, yesterday’s event proved to me that no sound can beat the sound of music. By the way Voice of Glory have a concert. I’m not sure whether it’s this weekend or the next, but there are posters around campus. Everyone should be there. Because see my fellow tutling will be in action. I never knew there were melodious voices in Journalism.
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