Beyond the Black and White

Today was large group contest for many area middle and high school band and choirs. The choir performance was amazing. The adjudicator said that we were the first choir of the day (and we performed late in the day) that moved his heart. He also said he had no criticisms, which I found very hard to believe until he actually left it at that. To see his face from the third row and having sung my heart out to him and the fifty people in the room, I knew we had come together as a choir. So few times this year have I seen us come together as one (as Stumps likes to put it) but I think we hit a new climax today. I feel like we, as a whole, finally saw beyond the black and white of music. I know it exists, whatever IT is but to see the look of pride on the faces of my peers when they realized this connection between the aural realm and the physical world and the emotions it can stir does exist was overpowering.