Riffing: Go Where I send Thee! Choirs. ASL

Riffing

If visuals are needed, imagine a large church with stained glass windows, two large Christmas trees with white lightson either side of the choir area, evergreen garlands with more lights along the sides. ranks of pipe organ on either side of the choir loft, a choir in green robes with white overlays, and RantWoman VERY glad to be able to see all that even if she cannot read the program without squinting fiercely.

RantWoman until this year has never encountered the spiritual "Children Go Where I Send Thee," the closing number at the 2019 University Presbyterian Church Noel performance. The event ROCKED: the sort of performance where one goes to wrap oneself in music, to free one's mind from endless traffic fiascoes, pedestrian environment discontinuities, impeachment dramas, melting polar ice, climbing global temperatures, overheated rental market, underheated quest for tax reform...

RantWoman is intrigued, charmed by all the college and high school choir performances on YouTube, available to summon echoes of RantFamily holiday productions. RantWoman is also intrigued enough by the references to add a link about them.

 
Visuals, Kenny Rogers and a group called Home Free.



Visuals: a men's chorus all wearing dark pants and sweaters of various colors and designs on risers in a semi circle around a piano. The men are doing various hand gestures as they sing and RantWoman is nowhere near qualified to opine about whether the hand gesturs are ASL.

Here RantWoman needs to talk about herself and will free-associate from men's chorus and ASL to a saga from a few years ago about the Seattle Men's chorus and full access for deaf people.

RantWoman on ASL Interpreter issues

Seattle Mens Chorus signer and ASL issues


And now some more music links
Andrews HS A capella women's choir

Salt Lake Vocal Artists

The Fairfield Four

Johny Cash The Man in Black Live in Denmark

And here,  Lyrics and explanation of lyrics