Oh my. The end of the school year is coming so fast. As much as I truly need and want a break from my job, getting through these next few weeks is like a marathon. (And I am no runner!)
My diversion tonight was a combined middle school and intermediate school chorus performance. For someone as tone deaf as I am, it is a hard thing to sit through. The kids were cute, all dressed in white and black. The parents were on hand with cameras and camcorders and grandparents in tow. My youngest was proud to be there and kept looking around the audience until she spied us. Then, of course, she would only give us a "I'm too cool to give you a big wave" little nod. This was my highlight of the evening. I am so tone deaf that every song sounded fine. Not great, not bad, and oh so similar. Half way through the bazillion songs, all I could think about is the fact that next week I have the band performance to attend.
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Perhaps it is a saving grace that you are "tone deaf" as you say. Because, then you are missing out on the pain of hearing the far off-key notes that are played. Each year during our elementary school's first-year band players recital, I am trying hard not to wince at the squeaking and tooting that is "music." Not, that I am some music officianado by any means. But, then again, you are also missing out on those truly magical performances that happen few and far between. I had an aspergers student that wrote is own piece of music and played it on the piano in front of the entire k-6 school. It was very moving!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is a saving grace that you are tone deaf, sometimes when I sit through the first year band recitals at our elementary school I am wincing in pain as the notes are so off key. Not, that I believe I know much about music, but I suppose a little, for I am a dancer. But then, too, you are missing out on the truly magical performances that happen few and far between. An Aspbergers st
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