Day 5 - Puszta, St. Michael's Concert

Today was a busy day!  We set off at 9 a.m. for an excursion to Puszta, south of Budapest.  We went to Tanyacsarda, a stables and horse breeding area.  We went on a hayride, saw an exhibition of the various horses there (Arabian, Hungarian halfbloods, and Lipizzaner), then an opportunity for a quick horseride, followed by a walk through the stables, a look at some farm animals and a light lunch with some wonderful musical entertainment.  We were back at the hotel around 2 p.m.

We were scheduled to leave for the concert at 3:30 p.m. but there was a snafu -- the church had a 4 p.m. Mass scheduled so we couldn't be in until after that.  As it happened, we got to the church about 4:40 or so and had just enough time to warmup briefly before singing our concert at 5 p.m.  We sang:

• Verbum Caro Factum Est (Hassler)
• Adoramus Te (Gasparini)
• Tambur 
• Wasn't That a Wonder
• Abendlied (Rheinberger)
• Hiney Ma Tov
• Wana Baraka
• Glory to God in the Highest (Thompson)
• Sanctus (Courtney)
• Beati Quorum Via (Stanford)
• Let Me Fly (DeCormier)
• Were You There (Bob King III)
• Battle of Jericho (Hogan)
• Praise to the Lord (Christiansen)

Our encore was Dawson's Ain'-a That Good News.  We had a good audience, actually.  The church was small, and between our "groupies" and the audience that wandered in the church was almost full.

After the concert we took the bus back to the hotel and had an evening to ourselves.  Tomorrow morning we are off to Bratislava!