Tag Archives: choral singing
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Let Music Live
6December 20, 2021 by Jean
Things were looking up in Maine early last summer, with Covid cases and hospitalizations down, test positivity rates only around …
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Party Time
4July 20, 2021 by Jean
When normal life was suddenly suspended in March of 2020, my choral singing group was in the process of preparing …
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Zooming into Fall
9October 1, 2020 by Jean
How can it be October already? As August turned to September, someone flipped a switch on Maine weather and we …
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Learning a New Language in My Seventies
5August 20, 2019 by Jean
I’ve never considered myself very good at learning languages. I learned Quebecois French in elementary school, but when I tried …
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Retirement as an Expansive Time of Life
3November 3, 2018 by Jean
I used to chuckle about retirees who claimed they couldn’t remember how they previously found time to hold a job, …
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March Madness (Non-Basketball Version)
6March 30, 2018 by Jean
I am finally coming up for air after my own version of March Madness (which had nothing to do with …
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Making Holiday Music
8December 16, 2017 by Jean
Last weekend was my choral group’s annual holiday concert. We sang two performances, one on Saturday evening and the other …
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Seasonal Transitions
8October 19, 2017 by Jean
Wherever I have lived in my adult life (southern California for two years after college, the mid-Atlantic region during my …
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Old Dogs and New Tricks
9July 4, 2017 by Jean
For most of my life, I assumed that our ability to learn new things declines dramatically as we age, as …
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How Busy Am I?
10June 23, 2017 by Jean
Recently, several friends and family members have commented about how busy I am. It is true that I have a …
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Stepping Into The Future 