Happy New Year! It’s been a few weeks since I posted but you will allow me a bit of a break to gather my thoughts. With the New Year, I decided to ‘clean house’ . I got rid of, improved and streamlined some things in my life as well as in the ‘Midwest Motet Society World’. I got a new email address. I cleaned closets and music files. And I decided to let a singer go. It was for the best and the singer is the one who ‘told’ me…….but it was really my idea. I would have reached out later this month if they hadn’t contacted me.

It wasn’t working with this singer because the MMS didn’t seem a priority to them. I have no problem with folks having a life outside of our chamber choir but when rehearsals close to concerts don’t seem important enough to attend or there is always something that comes up, it’s time to move on. I ask for a commitment for about 12 weeks, twice a year. My singers are busy people who sing and conduct and teach….I respect their time. When my time and the time of the other members of the MMS aren’t respected as well, I know that singer is not a good fit for the MMS.

All of my singers have beautiful voices but we are a chamber choir not a bunch of individual soloists. And we want to be a choir.