Making Music

After a day largely spent marking (just the afternoon, but that was quite enough) it was a relief to get out to a concert in the evening.

In fact, this was the first concert of genuine live music I've attended in quite some time - the first since the pandemic hit, I think. And it seemed fitting that the music was being made by students - a reminder of how the capacity for making sweet sounds is a general one, not solely for specialists, though these kids had the talent to be special.

The essential tool for the evening was the voice, generally pretty much unadorned, this being our senior 'choir' who style themselves Vocal Accord and perform largely a cappella. So the sense of the music being very much 'made' in the moment was particularly strong, and helped enormously by the obviously deep enthusiasm of the makers. Good to see the performers feeling the music physically, and emotionally. Good to be live and alive, eh?