The choir year starts up this weekend, and I am, as ever, happy and excited about it.. While it is great to have the summer off, it is way more great to return in September. We always begin the year with a choir retreat which includes a choir blessing and dinner one evening, and an all-day day of voice technique review, lectures, lots of rehearsing, and lots of happy reunions with friends not seen for a while. We usually conclude with a Mass, and this year the Mass was the wedding of two parishioners. The groom, a singer himself, dropped in to sing a little Mendelssohn and give us a treat. He is a policeman, so the natural treat was wedding donuts. When he told us there would be donuts, we were thinking, donuts ordinaire. But no ordinaire here! Aren’t they beautiful? We were amazed.
