While some members enjoyed the option to sleep in this morning, others woke up bright and early to go to the Minnesota Marine Art Museum on a party bus. Apparently the bus company overbooked all its regular busses, so they sent us a party bus for transport to the art musem.
The museum held an impressive collection containing pieces by George O’Keefe, Monet, Matisse, Van Gough, Deurat, and most famously Leutze’s 2nd copy of Washington Crossing the Delaware. We spent about an hour here before heading off downtown for lunch at Erbert and Gerbert’s sandwich shop.
After lunch, we rode the party bus back to the hotel while jamming to black eyed peas. We then rested for a bit before heading to rehearsal at Chapel of St. Mary for the afternoon, which is also our performance space for the evening.
Anticipation built all afternoon as to whether there would be a decent audience for this concert. As time got closer a small group of people started trickling in. By the time we got on stage, we had a large crowd of over one hundred people in attendance. Performing in such an acoustically resonant place before an audience was an amazing experience. Afterwards, when we asked how people heard of the concert, a significant portion had read about it in the local paper, but many also were personally invited by members through email, word of mouth, and postering.
When everyone finished changing, we took the bus back to the hotel and met at the nearby restaurant, Ground Round, for Glee Club dinner. It was the first group dinner, and the Glee Club had a great time just talking and hanging out as an entire group for the evening. After dinner, people split up to either go out to local bars, play cards, or sleep.
Written by Rowen VonPlagenhoef ’21, Photos by J. Finley Ong ’21