The power of simplicity

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a choir director, and hopefully you figured out much more quickly than I that simplicity is powerful. I conduct adults, high schoolers, and middle schoolers. The age difference between my oldest and youngest singer is nearly seventy years. I have finally figured out something incredibly profound: The more simple I can make my gesture, my explanation of a musical idea, or where we are beginning on my next downbeat, the more inspiration I can infuse in the rehearsal.

When I keep things simple, it’s puts the singer in the center of the story in rehearsal. They become the hero, I become the guide. They are the one on the journey, and I stand on the side and watch them grow.

That’s the powerful thing about the ChorFolio as well. It’s so simple. Singers have a place where their music doesn’t fall out, their pencil can always be found, and if they drop it in the snowy parking lots of Central Minnesota, no worries. Easy peasy. I love great music. I love it even more when it can stay in great shape.