After the concert

Wow!  The concert started just about on time, 2:30 p.m. in Bon Saveur Church, which is in the center of our campus.  Actually, we had been there from 9 a.m. until 11:30 for the rousing Sunday Mass conducted by Pere David and another priest and a host of characters on the altar who collaborated to make another very special service.  Then we had returned to the Guest House for a dinner of chicken, rice, macaroni salad, and fried plaintains before returning to the church, all dressed in our performance duds, which included shirts provided by the camp.
Mme. Nicole St.Victoire was the MC and did a splendid job despite the lack of a real program to follow. She appeared to be ad libbing (in French, of course) to fill in where the info was not correct.  You're probably not all that interested in these details, so I'll get to the part of the program that featured the Maine Music Outreach students.  They performed with the band:  Kevin on trumpet, Teiga on French horn, Hannah on alto sax, and Thomas on the baritone horn, which was loaned to him by the band director who needed a baritone horn player to complement his group.  From my expert perspective (NOT) they performed flawlessly.  Liz would probably concur, and she knows of what she speaks.  The band was conducted by Keith Johnston of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT and Pierre (I forget his last name) from Jacmel.  They really got along really well with our kids, and the feeling was entirely mutual.
The concert ended with a performance by the Symphony Orchestra made up of the teachers from many countries, but mostly, it seemed, from Lawrence University in I forget which midwestern state.  When the teachers heard Teiga playing her French horn during a rehearsal for the band, they were obviously impressed with her ability...and they needed a French horn in the orchestra.  So Teiga was by far the youngest member of the symphony orchestra with some very important parts.  We were all very proud of her, and, of course, of all the MMO performers today. 
We had hoped to do some tech-wonderful thing with our Macbook, but Thomas will have to fill you in on why that did not happen.  It certainly wasn't from a lack of effort, and something very wonderful may still come of the recordings he did with Liz's computer and with the photos and movies we took with my and Teiga's cameras.
Stephen