Chris spent the first half of spring break in New York, where their wind ensemble played a performance with several other high school groups at the Lincoln Center. They also got to spend a few days touring the city and were on TV while standing outside the Today Show. One of their group even got to ask his girlfriend to the prom on TV.
Typical of Colorado in the spring, they left in a snowstorm and came back in a blizzard. We drove up to Denver to pick Chris and one other boy up and then heard that the plane had been diverted to Colorado Springs. We called the other boy's parents and started to turn around. The other family called back and said, no, they won't let them off the plane so stay there. We then spent somewhere around an hour waiting to hear what they were doing for sure as Chris called us from the plane in Colorado Springs to say they would let them off, but not their luggage; no, they were going to try to get their luggage; no, they couldn't get off at all. The last thing we heard from Chris is they couldn't get off the plane after all, but then the ticket counter in Denver said they were trying to get the band kids and their luggage off in Colorado Springs. Since Chris wasn't answering his phone anymore, we decided they had probably taken back off. Their plane got in about 3 hours late and that was long enough for the storm to close the highway between Denver and Colorado Springs, so we ended up spending about 2 hours getting as close to the south end of Denver as we could and then finding a hotel (a drive that should take about 20 minutes).
Chris's final performance for the year was May 13. After their first song, their teacher announced that he had a group of boys that were going to do something extra. My jaw dropped when Chris got up. He hadn't mentioned a thing about it. They performed an a capella John Williams tribute. Kurt said it was the best thing he had ever seen in a band concert. Every now and then Chris really surprises me, but it was great. However, since Chris didn't tell me he was doing this, I had to download this off of YouTube instead of having my camera with me.
If you want to see where this comes from, the original is at Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man) medley - Corey Vidal and Moosebutter - a capella tribute on YouTube. It is much easier to hear, has the song titles they are using, and has the lyrics.
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