(If you are looking for my poem about life called "More than Coincidence" Click here)
Last week I had a lesson with my piano teacher Paul, and while we were working he kept making me sing the phrases to try to get me to have very clear musical intentions before I even touched the piano. At the end of my lesson I said to him, "I should just sing my voice music for you that I have to sing for Baroque Ensemble because I'm so uncertain what to do with my phrasing in it!". He asked me if I had my music there, and I did, so he accompanied me on my song by John Dowland: "If My Complaints Could Passions Move". His next student was also in the room for her lesson after mine, and she listened to me. I sang the song and he accompanied me on it, and as soon as I finished singing he said, "Well, you're hired! We are playing a piece for a faculty recital in November that is based on this song (and one other Dowland song), and I would like you to sing the songs on the concert right after we perform the piece."
"Oh my goodness I would love that!" I said. I was really excited about it. "Isn't that such a coincidence though, that I happen to be singing the song that the piece you are playing is based on?"
He responded, "My dear, life is full of coincidences."
Later I was as I was lying in bed thinking about it I began to realize even more what an exceptional chance of fate that was -- When I stopped to consider the odds that: 1) Of all the possible concert programs that the Baroque ensemble director could have chosen for this semester for the singers, he chose a recital of Dowland and Campion songs; 2) of all the pieces that my teacher could have chosen for his recital this semester he chose a piece based on a Dowland song; 3) Of all the songs by Dowland and Campion that the Baroque ensemble director had to choose from, he chose that song to be on the concert; and 4) of all the singers that he could have chosen to sing that song, he chose me. What are the odds of all those things coinciding to create such coincidence? One in a million? A billion? Even the fact that I am here in this place at this time this semester of this year when all these things are happening...... I don't know - but it's something tremendous... And it leads me to think that it must not really be merely coincidence bringing such opportunities to me, but providence...
So,
I'm going to be singing on a faculty recital!!!!!
:-D
Last week I had a lesson with my piano teacher Paul, and while we were working he kept making me sing the phrases to try to get me to have very clear musical intentions before I even touched the piano. At the end of my lesson I said to him, "I should just sing my voice music for you that I have to sing for Baroque Ensemble because I'm so uncertain what to do with my phrasing in it!". He asked me if I had my music there, and I did, so he accompanied me on my song by John Dowland: "If My Complaints Could Passions Move". His next student was also in the room for her lesson after mine, and she listened to me. I sang the song and he accompanied me on it, and as soon as I finished singing he said, "Well, you're hired! We are playing a piece for a faculty recital in November that is based on this song (and one other Dowland song), and I would like you to sing the songs on the concert right after we perform the piece."
"Oh my goodness I would love that!" I said. I was really excited about it. "Isn't that such a coincidence though, that I happen to be singing the song that the piece you are playing is based on?"
He responded, "My dear, life is full of coincidences."
Later I was as I was lying in bed thinking about it I began to realize even more what an exceptional chance of fate that was -- When I stopped to consider the odds that: 1) Of all the possible concert programs that the Baroque ensemble director could have chosen for this semester for the singers, he chose a recital of Dowland and Campion songs; 2) of all the pieces that my teacher could have chosen for his recital this semester he chose a piece based on a Dowland song; 3) Of all the songs by Dowland and Campion that the Baroque ensemble director had to choose from, he chose that song to be on the concert; and 4) of all the singers that he could have chosen to sing that song, he chose me. What are the odds of all those things coinciding to create such coincidence? One in a million? A billion? Even the fact that I am here in this place at this time this semester of this year when all these things are happening...... I don't know - but it's something tremendous... And it leads me to think that it must not really be merely coincidence bringing such opportunities to me, but providence...
So,
I'm going to be singing on a faculty recital!!!!!
:-D
