Once A Year Choir Members

20Dec06

Hi

Any of you out there in a church choir? What do you feel about instrumentalists and singers who just join the church choir to sing for Christmas or Easter? I do not like it at all. We practice and sing all year round and then we get these guests who come in during these times of the year that I had mentioned, only to be critical about our efforts. I am not saying that we are the greatest choir in the world, but I am saying for what we do have in membership year round we do pretty well. I especially do not care for those music majors who come in assuming none of us know anything about music and we do not know waht we are doing. Last night at choir practice was such a case. There was this first year college student who was very critical of us all evening. I asked her where she was studying music, I was impressed and then she told me that her minor was in music; that really chapped me some. I did not say a word all evening. Come Lent I will say that we should not allow guests join us and I am not alone.

Hinckley Music Teacher

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