Towards the end of a Columbia Chorale rehearsal on a dreary late February evening, a fragment of a choral arrangement sidled into my brain. Even though we singers struggled to make sense of the rhythms, I could hardly wait to get along home to listen to the arrangement. And when I did, I was hooked.
The object of my infatuation is a Mack Wilberg arrangement of the folk tune “Little Cindy.” The lyrics tell the story of an irrepressible woman…..
Recently, a colleague and I played the role of an 85-year-old woman who was living in a homeless shelter as part of a program designed to educate the community about what it was like to live in poverty. Ordinarily, each role was assigned to one person, but program organizers allowed me to work with someone else to address the challenge of a totally blind man navigating a large, noisy, and unfamiliar room by himself.
After my colleague and I found…..