Choral Union Flash Mobs Pike Place Market

Choral Union is on tour in BC and the USA and as he did last summer, Clement Morton has agreed to send updates from the road for the President`s Page Blog. 

Students enjoyed seeing Seattle's famous Market Theatre Gum Wall
on which are stuck thousands of pieces of chewing gum.

Thursday morning at 7:30 we bade farewell to our gracious hosts in Portland and loaded the bus for our long trek to Seattle Washington. As we rode the bus, some of us slept, some of us sang songs, or found other ways to occupy our time, such as improving our skills with a Rubik's cube.

We arrived in Seattle Washington around the top of the clock and made our way to Pike Place Market. This is a public market that looks our over the waters of Elliott Bay. It has been selling unique and wonderful items since 17 August 1907, which means it has been operating for 106 years, 7 months, and 11 days! What an amazing cultural history is wrapped up in this unique location!

We added to that history when we decided to do a flash mob. We dispersed about in the crowd and when Lorenzo our lead for Baba Yetu started singing we gathered together and joined in. This encouraged people from the crowd to start singing, pausing praising the Lord. For a moment, we became one family whose purpose was again to praise our Creator.
 

Later we checked into our hotel, got cleaned up and dressed up for the Seattle Symphony. We had tickets for 7:30, so we walked to Benaroya Hall. Gerald Schwartz skillfully conducted the ensemble, creating music that swelled around us lifting and carrying us away to a place where for a time we could become lost in the rippling tide that poured over us. The last strains of music are now dying away as we make our way back to our hotel rooms for the night.