CONGRATULATIONS! I am so very, very proud of all of you for the musicianship, intensity, and dedication you brought to last evening’s performance. It was exciting and thrilling and moving and more!
I invited Rachel to share her thoughts. This is what she sent to me to share with you:
Curt, words cannot express my gratitude, pride, joy, elation and utter exhaustion today… my thoughts?
- What a performance – everyone brought their A game…like we were all more comfortable in our shoes. As if the repeat pieces had a chance to settle in…we really showed the best of what we do (even my improv on S&S lol).
- What an audience – well over 200 people – they were completely engaged and energized when we started… and completely blow away by the time we were done. I felt the excitement the entire hour…the entire temple was buzzing about it today.
- The soloists – they were sizzling with excitement – David is over the moon.
- And what a reception – I loved mixing the two groups together – the love flowed both ways. Some of the comments i heard…
- “We should do this again… every year”
- “We want to hear more”
- “I can’t believe you are not a professional group”
From our oldest congregant who is 102 – she said she felt like she was back in Vienna and she knew we were playing just for her – this is how they did it back then…
I lost count of the number of “Thank You… you guys were amazing!”
I could go on and on… I am honored and proud to share the stage (and all the praise) with such an incredible group of musicians and friends.
Especially to you Curt – for letting me run with this idea and truly getting how important this was to me.
I’d also like to point out that Marge left a stack of brochures at the welcome table, and all of them were taken by evening’s end.
Thank you, everyone. I really feel that the performance last evening helped to assert WSW as a leader in community outreach.
I wish everyone all the best for a wonderful Thanksgiving! See you next on Monday, November 30 at TMH for the first reading of our Winter cycle!