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Dear Readers,

So I have a question about a certain lady. No, I don't consider her special. I will grant she is very intelligent and does an excellent job with what she does...but she happens to a psychotic control-freak. That's what I've concluded. Who else would take the time out of a rehearsal that had been planned for months to lecture about commitment levels and using the limited time we have. If you hadn't already guessed, I'm talking about our talented choir director. Who else would get mad at her madrigal group for not being at rehearsals and then give them the week off? I'm not really frustrated by that fact, more just confused.

No the thing that frustrates me is our director getting frustrated at the small things and comparing the madrigals to the boy's varsity basketball team. Why don't the basketball players miss practice? Easy: they want to be there. Basketball is why they joined the team. Choir? People are there to do the minimal possible to go on choir tour to California. Very few choir members are there because they want to sing as their main goal. Seems logical, right? Basketball players want to play basketball. They miss practice, they don't play. Vocalists miss practice, they lose points they can make up later in most cases. You can't very well take a singer out of a concert. Actually, you can, but our director never does.

So what do you think? How could the choir program be more like the basketball program? Honestly, it's no where close right now.

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  1. Sparrow2/3/10, 9:32 PM

    Haha. The choir program will be more like the basketball program when the director doesn't make kids dread rehearsals.

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