I have sung in high school choirs and musicals. I have sung in college choirs, small and large. I have sung in the chorus of a number of community operettas. Now, I’m singing in a community choir.
I have never sung in a choir where everyone arrived on time. I have never sung in a choir that sat quietly and attentively after the director’s cut-off.
Directors must be meant to suffer.
and you’re goign to let me be a choir director when i grow up? what is wrong with you?!?!?
Comment by becca — November 6, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
If it wasn’t worth it, I wouldn’t be going to rehearsal tonight, eh? You’ll be fine
Comment by Derek Smootz — November 6, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
Well teachers know they’ll never get perfect sonsideration, so they ask for more so students will meet them halfway. Classic leader/managment mind games.
Comment by Michael M — November 7, 2006 @ 7:24 pm
I can’t disagree that it actually happens that way, but the frustration I’ve seen on some directors’ faces would seem to indicate that they don’t expect it to work that way. And, the majority of the community choir I’m singing with now are older than the director, and he just retired from – they’re a bit past the “student” phase, yet they’re as talkative as high schoolers.
Comment by Derek Smootz — November 8, 2006 @ 8:38 am