thank you for the music, for giving it to me.

aw. this landed in my inbox post sunday's year end concert.

Dear Youth Choir singers,
Thank you so very much for a superb performance at my last CSMA Family of Choirs Concert as Artistic Director. What a fabulous “send off” that was!
Your numbers were brilliant – and I am very thrilled to be leaving this organization with this particular Youth Choir so strong, and brilliant under the direction of Carrie Tennant. It will be very exciting for me to see how Diana Clark and your wonderful director lead Coastal Sound into new “choral territory” along side of the other members of this fabulous Artistic Team. Thank you for your part in it all!

I feel kind of like a proud parent…..and it gave me great joy to see your faces, along side of the alumni faces, and all the others in that final “Here’s to Song.”

(Oh yes…some housekeeping here…..we need that music back ASAP because it is borrowed…..so please be sure to return this.)

You will be a “knock out” at the festival! Looking forward to that….just a week away!

Thanks again

Donna

as much as we have all trembled in fear in the presence of donna otto (and cringed at her interesting fashion sense. ahem. gloria.), she's honestly an inspiration. very few people are ever able to leave anything better than they found it - and she is definitely one who has - whether it be a concert venue or a swimming pool change room or a massive group of people living out 'music, for your whole life'.

on another note (ohh pun. :\) festival is in three days. that is a freaking short time. before then i have to catch up on sleep, get rid of this cold, go to surrey for scotts baptism, watch UP with the boys, go to work, download On and On, and something is happening on saturday that i can't remember.
should be good times.