Fall Festival
There are no words to describe my feelings now. I am still glowing and beaming and have that "choir feeling" in my heart. It's like I'm so excited and happy that I almost can't catch my breath and I feel like crying at the sheer beauty and joy of the performance. The songs all came together and some even brought tears to my eyes. Also knowing that you made someone cry as they listened to your song because it was so moving and touching makes me feel like I make a difference and that is why I sing because I can impact people's lives through my music.
The singing was wonderful and everyone was brilliant but the best parts of the festival happened off stage. Those bonding moments where we'd all join together without instruction and sing and dance. Three choirs of girls stopping their break to come sing and dance. The support of older girls and the surprise at all of the little ones knowing your name before you even meet them. Then you remember how when you were that young you knew all of the older girls too and looked up to them more than even they knew. Finding out that there are so many little girls who look up to you and see you as a role model and want to be like you, what an inspiring feeling, inspiring you to "be the best you can be" and to set a positive example and to live up to their image of you. wow.
I belong there with choir. It is my love and shall be forever more. I wish that someday I can return all of the kindnesses and life lessons and love that each and every person has given me. Someday I will be one of the conductors. Someday I will change the lives of others and never leave the choir. Because to leave the United Choir School would be to kill something that is so much a part of me, and I would never be happy again. Because the love, the love I have experienced and recieved and given has changed me and made me who I am. Choir completes me.
The singing was wonderful and everyone was brilliant but the best parts of the festival happened off stage. Those bonding moments where we'd all join together without instruction and sing and dance. Three choirs of girls stopping their break to come sing and dance. The support of older girls and the surprise at all of the little ones knowing your name before you even meet them. Then you remember how when you were that young you knew all of the older girls too and looked up to them more than even they knew. Finding out that there are so many little girls who look up to you and see you as a role model and want to be like you, what an inspiring feeling, inspiring you to "be the best you can be" and to set a positive example and to live up to their image of you. wow.
I belong there with choir. It is my love and shall be forever more. I wish that someday I can return all of the kindnesses and life lessons and love that each and every person has given me. Someday I will be one of the conductors. Someday I will change the lives of others and never leave the choir. Because to leave the United Choir School would be to kill something that is so much a part of me, and I would never be happy again. Because the love, the love I have experienced and recieved and given has changed me and made me who I am. Choir completes me.