I love December!

My favorite time as a teacher, without a doubt, was December. Preparing to share a stage with student musicians during the holidays is special. Being a musician in December is transcendent. If you are playing this month, enjoy it all. Enjoy a candy cane for me, even the crazy flavored ones. I miss it all. Snow days are pretty great, but not in December so much. Too much to do!

New beginnings.

I hope everyone is well to start this week. A former student teacher of mine reached out to me about doing some work with his orchestra program at Stivers School for the Performing Arts on a part time basis. I will be there with their orchestras starting tomorrow. This is certainly nothing like what I enjoyed for decades as a full-time teacher, but it will be great to support my friend and his orchestra program, and I can’t wait to get started.