Sing joyfully

In my pause, I accomplished a few things on my list, like #73 Sing somewhere other than church.

Around Christmastime I ran into my high school choir director.  She is now the director at a community college in a nearby town, and is working towards completing her PhD in conducting.  She asked if she could call me sometime to sing for her.  I was very honored that she asked me.

She called me up a little over a month ago to let me know she was going to be giving her graduate recital and wondered if my dad and I could join her choir.  She was performing several pieces that broke into eight parts and was concerned about her choir's ability to fill out sound.  We agreed.

But, we were in a little over our head.  We learned and performed sixteen pieces.  I was only familiar with one of the sixteen, and my dad had heard the Mass we sang before.  The pieces were in English, German, Italian, Latin, and French.  It was extremely challenging.

I truly enjoyed the chance to perform again.  I've been in better performances, but considering the time constraints and the level of difficulty of the music, I think we did really well.  And it appears that she is going to pass, so at least we didn't prevent her from getting her degree.