We were at Midtown Plaza on Saturday and nostalgia was in the air. We were part of a big crowd who went there for the 25th annual Tuba Christmas. It will be the last one to be held at Midtown.
My daughter Evvy participated in the event, playing her Euphonium which was decorated with Christmas stars. Its really fun to hear all the various shaped and sized tubas playing entire songs. Generally, the tubas don't do the whole melody. The conductor, Glenn Hall, practiced with the group (it was upwards of 250 tubas this year) for about two hours. When they played, it seemed like they had practiced together much longer.
One side note. There was as big a crowd in Midtown as I ever recall seeing. I think it is evidence that if you give people a good reason, they will go downtown. Its too bad that the people who run things in Rochester never took the time to learn this lesson. If they had, maybe Midtown would not be going the way of the dinosaurs.
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