Wow! Look at this. A whole choir full of young men!
It wasn’t too long ago, however, that they didn’t look or sound like this. Every single one of these gentlemen was at one point in the not-too-distant past a gawking, unsure, confused adolescent with a voice that was – on its best day – miserably unreliable. These fellows were the slouchy, pimply, irascible boys in your choir who made you want to tear out your hair. They were disruptive, occasionally stinky, and vocally unstable.
Look at them now. Poised. Confident. Well-dressed (and probably not stinky). Singing beautifully. And it’s all YOUR FAULT! Yes, of course, they are the recipients of the tutelage of their present conductor; but he would doubtless be the first to credit the nurturing care of their previous directors for seeing these chaps through the tormented waters of adolescence.
If you are a middle-level or secondary school choral conductor, please look around your choir today and try with all your might to see the future of the young men in your care. They could very well be singing like this in just a couple years.
All of us in the choral profession thank you for your herculean efforts with these guys.
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