It starts about three weeks before the winter concert. The conductors admonishes the choir to be careful about their health, to wash their hands, get lots of sleep, take vitamins, whatever. While I understand the motivation (no one wants to have singers miss concerts due to illness) does anyone really think such lectures do any good? Would a single singer make different choices, or even wash their hands more often, as the result of being browbeaten about this? Adults or kids?
It’s kind of like the cell-phone announcement. Last time I went to a regional ACDA convention, there was a particularly irritating announcement about turning off cell phones, but at the concerts I attended at that convention every single one was interrupted by a phone ringing. People tune out those announcements.
On the other hand, who could resist this?
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