Sound of Music

Here’s a video recording someone just sent me of our choir singing “The Hills Are Alive” from a Sound of Music medley at our recent concert. I’m putting it here so I can find it again easily. See if you can spot me in the lower right hand corner as the camera pans by. I’m standing next to my friend Lisa. We’ve been singing in choirs together for going on ten years now. I love singing with her, and knowing that we’ll get to see each other at least on rehearsal day every week. We usually go out for soup afterward. This choir we joined post Covid is mostly made up of people who have quite fascinating former pursuits. I am one of the few non-retirees. I never tire of discovering who my singing mates were in their lives before, when few of us were at liberty to meet at 1:30 on a Wednesday afternoon because we were holed up in offices somewhere. People now have more freedom to design a hybrid work life, doing some days in the office and some from home. Normalizing remote work is a gift the pandemic gave us, but honestly, I watch my kids and they’re working just as hard, maybe harder, on the days they work from home. I work hard from home too, which is why I relish the break that a midweek choir rehearsal offers to a group of amateurs who want to make a joyful noise.