Details, details, details... choir director's prep for a concert

I am such a detail person. I just wish I was as organized as I am detailed. You'd think those would be mutually exclusive. But somehow I manage to keep lots of details in my head, but don't necessarily get them all out on  paper, communicated clearly, or planned to avoid conflicts.

So I am currently finishing up my program notes for Beethoven and Brahms, communicating with our host location, St. Mark's On the Campus, emailing furiously our guests musicians, finalizing details for piano deliveries, and on and on and on....

I'm not complaining, in fact I'm reveling! The work of getting a performance up and off the ground is exciting to me. I know that I have colleagues who don't enjoy this kind of detail work and yet they pull off the most incredible performance events. We all work in different ways, but hopefully our goals are similar. We want to inspire, inform, and entertain our audiences. We want great  and memorable experiences for our singers and musicians. We want to come off the podium exhilarated and hopeful for the future!

So my personal goals are to slow down a little, keep focused on the big picture needs for our upcoming concert, communicate clearly and thankfully to everyone involved, and come away with a greats sense of joy! Now I just gotta figure out how to do all that!