The Big Sing

[frenchpony]

One of the things that I loved about living in the Midwest was that, every so often, there were these pickup choir events. I got to go to the singalong Messiah at the Lyric Opera once, and to KAMII's singalong Judas Maccabaeus the last year that they did it. lcohen and rhobike and I had many lovely June evenings in Oak Park tearing through their pickup choir

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[frenchpony]

The one thing that I miss having easy access to is shape-note singing. The closest singers are in London. While London isn't prohibitively far away, it does take some planning and costs money, so I'm going to have to sit down and plan a singing trip soon. But there is still singing, along with plenty of dancing and lots of new friends!

The reason I haven't written about the classes I'm teaching is that I'm not teaching any classes this year! So don't worry, you haven't missed any. If I want to teach next year, I think I have to express interest by tomorrow evening, so that's on my to-do list. I was thinking about doing a class on sacred music.

Teaching does work a bit differently here, in that there are either big lectures or small supervisions, and not much in between. I do have one student, but he's more like an advisee. He's writing a major research paper, 7000 words, due at the end of the year, and I was asked to supervise him for that. I'm supposed to meet with him four times during the year and sort of guide him through the process of researching and writing this thing. So far, we've met twice, and he seems to be doing okay. I like him, and he works hard. What's not to love? We meet in my living room, and we have tea, and we talk about what he's done and what he'll need to do next.