Dear Summer Sing,
Thank you for another wonderful rehearsal! Thank you for working so hard and tackling this Canadian piece with such positivity. Thank you for singing the beginning of Red, Red Rose soooooo beautifully. Most of all, thank you so much for being such a wonderful group of people.
A community member asked me about my summer plans recently, and I started by telling them about a small job I have for two weeks, teaching chorus electives to young string musicians at the Suzuki Institute at Ithaca College. This past week was the first week - it went very well! - and the coming week will be the second week. Teaching the choir electives is both fun and rewarding, but it is most definitely work. It takes loads of planning, gathering materials, altering those original plans, strategizing, and various kinds of management during the rehearsals. These students are fantastic - interested, positive, well-behaved, imaginative, musical - but they are still children. They definitely make me use my skills to keep everything on track.
At any rate, I was telling this person about the job and what it entailed.
"You'll be done with work for the summer after next week, then?" they asked.
"Yes, that's right! Well, I also direct an adult choir one night a week...but that doesn't feel like work!" I said.
It's really true. Your positivity, musical energy, and joy in singing make every moment of Summer Sing a true pleasure for me. And when combined with Ed's outstanding organization and leadership, and the crew of volunteers who help him to process registration, pass out folders, set up chairs, and do the dozens of things that come with running a choir - making music with all of you feels much more like play than like work!
So gratitude is my only real message this week - thank you so much for being your amazing selves.
Sincerely,
Katie
|
