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Although I’m sad about the circumstances — someone had to drop out at the last minute due to a family illness — I’m thrilled to be headed, along with my parents and a friend from church, to the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Symphony Chorus performance of Handel’s “Messiah” tonight at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. My parents have been going to see “Messiah” for several years now, and it’s the high point of their holiday season. The first year they saw it, they were literally in tears by the end of the evening.

I’ve wanted to go ever since, but just haven’t been able to work it out. I’ve never seen “Messiah” live before. When we had our meeting on Tuesday to plan the Nashville Symphony concert in Shelbyville, I was reminded that Shelby Strickland — the symphony’s director of education and community outreach, and an important part of our committee — is also a member of the chorus, and we were chatting about the concert. I mentioned that I probably wouldn’t make it this year, and we said that maybe I would get to see it next year.

When Dad called me last night to invite me, I knew I had three things to cover tonight for the newspaper and wasn’t sure if I could make it. But a co-worker is going to cover the most critical one and I’m going to talk to someone after the fact to get stories on the other two.

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