Here is Mike Anderle’s exciting performance of “The Trumpet Shall Sound” from the 2015 Sing Along Messiah.   Mike had never sung it or studied it before this fall,  but he sure makes it sound like it was written for him.  (I wish the recording weren’t quite so distant, but I think it will give you a very good idea of how well he did with this taxing aria.)  Mark Eichner,  retired music professor from UW-Parkside, is the trumpet soloist.

Thanks, Michael McDonnell, for snapping this photo from your place in the front row.  There’s something about it that really captures the excitement of the moment.