“My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.” Robert Frost Those of you teaching in-person with COVID-19 restrictions are encountering dilemmas you never expected to have. And solutions are not […]
Difficult Times
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Welcome Back
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” Percy Bysshe Shelley Hello everyone! After four weeks of reruns of Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics Blogs from summers past, I’m back with new […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Morning Routine
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” William Blake Today is the seventh anniversary of my Mom’s death so I ask a little indulgence. Never fear, I promise my musings will have something to do with the subject of today’s blog! I’ve mentioned before my Mom […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: The Rule of Three
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost I follow the blogs of several authors. A while back, one of them wrote about trying to accomplish three things every day. They could be big things or small things, but if she completed three, she considered her […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Being A Lady
“Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Margaret Thatcher When I was a child, I was often reminded by Mom to behave like a lady. As a 7- or 8-year-old, I was never sure exactly what that meant. I thought it might mean wearing fancy clothes, […]
Choral Potpourri/Choral Ethics: Language!
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes.” Cole Porter Our lives will soon be more normal than they’ve been for a while. Each day brings news of relaxing of some restrictions, opening up of venues, stores and the ability to go about our lives without […]