Chapter 19
I stood on the podium and made eye contact with every single one of the twenty-three members of the choir, then at the dulcimer player who’d been hired specifically for this piece. I didn’t see them, but I could smell the pine incense that the board had decided to add to make this more Christmassy.
My oboe player played one note for the choir and I gave the downbeat. The piece started softly. “In the Bleak Mid-winter” was the first song with an a cappella choir, the dulcimer added his part behind them. The woodwind section also slid in, all playing recorders. The wooden sounds added so much, then the full orchestra entered softly.
I couldn’t believe how well this was going. The dulcimer and the recorders added so much authenticity to the music, that it almost felt like we wer
