We are growing, bit by bit. It is exciting to add a new face, another voice. The music becomes more engaging as we grow in number. At some point, I hope to have more than one voice per part, and I know that will come all in good time. I pray that the courageous women who have first joined will hang in there while we grow.
There is nothing quite like the mellow sound of women's voices singing. Of course, any voice can be comforting, but for singing lullabys and songs of peace and harmony, women are experienced and well suited. Particularly for those who need comforting, a low resonant voice singing unaccompanied lullabys can be quite soothing.
We are singing a mix of Romantic music (Liszt's Pater Noster), classical (Flor Peeter's Our Father), folk (Let There Be Peace On Earth) and gospel (All My Trials). But the singers take it all in stride and rise to the challenges each piece presents. I am hopeful of getting some good recordings of them singing for the Prayers for Cancer Patients recording upcoming.
Helping others is high on most women's lists of things they participate in, so it may well be that by concert time, and perhaps afterwards, more wonderful women will come and sing with us as we work to soothe the brows of those going through chemo and radiation. I am encouraged.
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