Memory lane. I was walking down this twisty path in my mind the other day. Some of the students that I taught years ago when I was a high school choral teacher "found" me on Facebook. One actually had to send me a picture of what they looked like when they were in my group, because they had (of course) changed. Some I recognized immediately.
So, before class I got my old scrapbook from that period of my life and began looking at those sweet faces. LOL (as you guys say) at the jokes;
bittersweet at the ones that are no longer with us. Then I started thinking about how it began here at TROY. And I found this picture of the early Chamber Choir. We've come a long way since those days. But do you see the joy on their faces? Hopefully, that is still in place in every rehearsal, in every encounter.
Sometimes we lose the joy in our music making and have to rediscover it. Like the small group that practiced (I'm told) for over an hour in the stairwell leading to the basement in Smith Hall.
Rediscovering the joy of making music together...unplanned...spontaneously...like an organism that is coming alive and growing and multiplying.
Hope you rediscover joy today!
It IS in encouraging to look back at the past to see where you've come from as a motivation to continue forward...or perhaps as a reflection on how to better approach the future, depending on if you're happy with your progress your craft?
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