{"id":14647,"date":"2018-02-16T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:24:35","slug":"the-most-amazing-harp-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/the-most-amazing-harp-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"The most amazing harp concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday Jessi, Henry, and Vika came over for a lovely play date.<\/p>\n

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We started by playing a bird matching game. It was emotionally difficult for Ammon to grasp the concept of turn taking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then called Abe and asked if there was any way we could go to the Sasha Boldachev<\/a> concert at Temple Square. Anamae, Lydia’s harp teacher, has had the concert info posted for a while, and even though I didn’t know anything about Sasha, I wanted to go.<\/p>\n

I believe this desire was divinely planted. Anamae often has upcoming concert info posted, and I usually just take a wistful glance at it and figure it doesn’t work with bedtime. For whatever reason, this time around I felt an almost visceral urge to attend.<\/p>\n

Anyway, of course, Abe said we’d make it happen. He took Clarissa, Mary, and Ammon to his parents’ home in the Avenues while Lydia and I went to the Assembly Hall, my favorite building on Temple Square.<\/p>\n

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Once the concert started, I knew that God had planted the desire in my heart to attend. The whole concert, from start to finish, was a gift. It brought me to tears to see such an abundance of talent poured out onto one beautiful soul. I felt like I was looking at the Pieta for the first time. I know for a fact it’s the first time I’ve heard the harp played like that in person. In the two short years Lydia has been playing the harp, we have been to a fair number of harp concerts, and I have amassed and listened to an even fairer amount of harp music, but never, never have I heard anything like what I heard on Friday.<\/p>\n

My favorite piece was the Sheherazade. This YouTube video doesn’t capture the exhilaration of seeing and hearing this in person, but it’s an approximation, I guess:<\/p>\n