Greetings, all!
Here we are, the weekend of
our musicale.
- Dress is informal. Guests are welcome - family, friends
and cheerleaders, I like to say.
- I will have some snacks for our post concert party.
Although families have been very generous in adding to our food
table in the past, since the pandemic it has been much more
difficult to monitor the safe comsumption of food in groups.
Allow me to engineer the food and drink... I don't mind, and
there are some tricks I have learned to help keep us safe.
- The church has experienced an increase in use of the
entire SUMC building all days of the week, so it is important to
keep ourselves in the sanctuary area. I know of at least one
other group that will be nearby during our music time. Please
help us keep all participants in the sanctuary area and the
foyer where the food will be. There is a bathroom in the hallway
just beyond the piano side door out of the sanctuary, but that
should be as far as anyone needs to go into the rest of the
building. There is also a bathroom in the narthex, the rear area
adjacent to the sanctuary.
- Don't forget to bring your music! I do not have copies
of everyone's scores, so it will be up to you to bring the
printed music you need.
- Some of you have expressed a need to play early or late
in our program; that is perfectly OK, and please remind me if I
have missed a time that you need to arrive or to leave. I urge
everyone to stay for the entire concert if possible - there is
something to learn from each person's presentation.
- Don't forget to silence all electronic devices!
- One reason I like to gather us for musicales is to
practice our listening skills as well as our performing skills.
Please give the same attention to every player that you would
like for yourself; this can be a challenge, because we live in
an age in which extended focus on something besides a screen is
less common. But it is important! So do your best.
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