Last night I attended the Iowa All-State Music Festival Concert, where the best high school musicians in the state perform together. My fabulous niece auditioned and was selected to be part of the chorus this year, so I went to the concert along with my family.
The concert itself was pretty great, overall. There were a couple of songs that I didn’t like as much as the others, and it did get a little long with all the talking in between songs and giving of awards to educators, but there was some phenomenal music performed by these young people.
It was the first band/orchestra/choir concert I’ve been to in quite some time, though, and as soon as the instrumentalists started warming up, I knew I was going to write a blog post about it. I know it’s probably cheesy, but the cacophony of the horns all warming up on their own:
followed by them tuning to each other:
made me think about how we humans communicate with each other.
If we’re all talking at the same time it’ll just be noise, but if we start listening and getting in tune with each other, and then play our own parts we can make something beautiful.
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