Chapter 2
FOR NOAH, THE first few months of the year rushed by in a blur of activity. He went to class; he was still being tutored twice a week by Dr. Ambrose; he went home and studied; there were choir rehearsals and weekly Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra chorus rehearsals; then there were the endless rounds of practice and more practice—on top of which, he’d driven himself mercilessly to achieve perfection in his senior recital.
The choir’s late February performance of the Duruflé Requiem came and went, but he hardly took notice as it was just one more item on a long list of things that had to be done. In the midst of everything else, Tom had performed in concert in St. John’s Cathedral in Jacksonville and in a church in Savannah, among other venues, and their respective scrapbooks wer
