In August just past (it
did just pass didn't it??) I took action with a positively ancient pledge to organize the music in our music room. By 'ancient pledge' I mean: a good intention verbally expressed far too often and lain dormant for about five years, give or take a few.
I have more music than could ever be useful to me. I stare at shelves, boxes, binders, cupboards & corners FULL to be more precise and yet I can throw none of it away. I tried.
I just can't bring myself to do it.
The very idea is akin to discarding that collection of RSV bibles shelved unreachably in the home library.
Classified unthinkable in terms of squeam
ishiness.
But I digress so conveniently.
I sort of stumbled across a copy of
Carols & Classics which I opened at the keyboard and to which I lost the remainder of that afternoon. Here's the online product description:
A rich treasury of choral works and Scripture for concert, pageant and
service; suitable for choir and/or congregational singing, individual
medleys during the season of Advent and Christmas, and in the retelling
of the Christmas story. Blending the most cherished Christmas
classics with beloved carols in powerful and unique combinations by Tom
Fettke; ideal for medium sized choirs. 96 pages.
96 pages of sheer musical beauty. I was captivated entirely.
I blush
considerably a bit to admit this.
Compelled in ways convicting but difficult to explain, my reality is such that I am now immersed (almost exclusively) in a new Community Concert project for December and thus.....
still staring at shelves, boxes, binders, cupboards and corners of music waiting to be organized.
A girl's gotta do what she's compelled to do.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Details to follow, stay tuned.
