On my way home this afternoon from the Ingleside Mall in Holyoke, I stopped in Three Rivers to attend a concert of vocal music at St Anne’s Church on Main Street.

Soprano Jennifer Fijal, with accompanist Clifton J. Noble Jr, presented a recital of classical and popular songs. She is a 2007 graduate of Palmer High School and a rising sophomore at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. In summer 2009, she hopes to attend the University of Miami Frost School of Music program in Salzburg, Austria; our donations at this concert will help support her in this endeavor.

My favorite pieces were “Will there really be a morning” and “Loveliest of Trees,” both sung in English.

A very attractive young woman, Ms. Fijal has a pure and sweet voice. I think it’s great that someone from a dinky little town in central Massachusetts aspires to study opera in Europe, and I wish her all the best. You go, girl!