Tonight I am scheduled to teach a summer graduate class in the Music Education Master's degree program. They are required to write a paper, and need instruction about our resources. I enjoy teaching on the graduate level because the students not only take advantage of the teaching, but understand faster and ask excellent questions. It does mean though that I will not be able to rehearse with the choir.
We are near the end of the season and the piece for Sunday is fairly straightforward. We spent extra time with it last week, and are in a good place. I am not concerned. Still, it is just strange not to be working with singers tonight. Music feeds my soul and I love the wash of sound of a choir coming at me as we work out the phrasing and dynamics and melodies and harmonies of a piece of music.
If you can't do one thing you love, how wonderful is it to do another thing that you love! So few people do for work activities that they like much less love. I consider myself extremely fortunate. I work 2 jobs in areas I love and I am studying a third subject that I totally love. Wow. Am I blessed or what? So tonight, rather than conduct, I instruct. Sweet. Some nights are just like that.
We are near the end of the season and the piece for Sunday is fairly straightforward. We spent extra time with it last week, and are in a good place. I am not concerned. Still, it is just strange not to be working with singers tonight. Music feeds my soul and I love the wash of sound of a choir coming at me as we work out the phrasing and dynamics and melodies and harmonies of a piece of music.
If you can't do one thing you love, how wonderful is it to do another thing that you love! So few people do for work activities that they like much less love. I consider myself extremely fortunate. I work 2 jobs in areas I love and I am studying a third subject that I totally love. Wow. Am I blessed or what? So tonight, rather than conduct, I instruct. Sweet. Some nights are just like that.
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