It's another of those periods where I've had so many thoughts rattling around my head that I struggle to write them down in any coherent manner. This isn't helped by the fact that I almost always think of blog posts while I'm driving, and by the time I'm somewhere I could actually write it down, I've forgotten what it was. (No wonder businessmen love to dictate!). In any case, this morning, a moment to try and pull these thoughts together. The steaming race to the semester finish line has been a doozy. Our scholarship auditions were earlier than usual to accommodate some staff schedules, which meant for the first time students had to be ready for this important performance before finals/juries/recital week, with necessary extra rehearsals and lessons; I had 5 in for that (and am delighted to say they all did very well indeed). Immediately following that event, eleven students performed in our end-of term recital, by far the largest number of people I'...
Educator. Singer. Photographer. Parent. Life as a musical multi-hyphenate in the 21st century.