Everyone's a Critic

It's only fitting that the ISO Yuletide concert was born in the same year as our oldest daughter. It was four or five years later that we took Charnee to her first Yuletide Celebration where she was awestruck by the performance of "The Littlest Angel". Everything about the concert was magical, and since then both of our daughters look forward to "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and those impressive reindeer and trusted pupateers. But that cherubic voice of the young "angel" inspired our daughter to come home and recreate the holiday performances with her Cabbage Patch dolls, all the while singing away. This began our family tradition of attending Yuletide, usually as part of the audience and sometimes bagging cookies with the New World Youth Orchestra (where our youngest was a violinist). We have to think Yuletide, along with numerous other ISO concerts our family has attended, contributed to our daughters' love for music. Our oldest sings with a local band and the youngest is now a freshman in college pursuing a double degree in Violin Performance and International Studies. The Yuletide Celebration is more than just a memory to us!

Name: Elaine Drake
City: Indianapolis