We finished our spring concert of the Sun City Singers, and the songs keep running through my mind. This happens: By about three weeks before a concert to about three weeks after, the songs become invasive, filling the time between dreams. I\u2019ve been in this singers\u2019 chorus for over 18 years and three times a year, for the Spring, Fourth of July, and Christmas concerts, this happens. I wonder if this happens for other people who make music and have a concert\u2014that the music continues to run in the mind for a while after the performance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a little annoying, a little disturbing; but mainly, it occurs to me, this is a gift: It\u2019s like my guardian angels are saying, \u201cYou really know this song now, you have this in your repertoire. You can settle into having bathed in this music.\u201d It does feel like a bit of an experience for my life, having sung these. Some of the songs I\u2019ve even sung before, and it\u2019s like they\u2019re old friends that I\u2019ve had an opportunity to get together with again.<\/p>\n
Some people go here or there and have the photo albums and memorabilia to prove it. I did a bit of that, but songs are for me more nourishing. I can go back and taste them, so to speak, sing them a bit to myself or in the shower. I haven\u2019t thought of it this way before, but the songs I\u2019ve sung are like collected stamps or postcards, they\u2019re special memories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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