wow.

What a fun place this is to teach.  10 minutes ago, Kitty just heard her first Dona Nobis Pacem from Bach’s B minor Mass.  And I got to be here.  It’s a really big fugue, full of truth, honesty, directness and one of the most perfect examples of the use of Timpani for the greater good.  Dozens of folks on the stage doing different things(or the same thing all at different times), getting along perfectly well, parts colliding, the collisions of which provide the hope and the joy.  Kitty’s playing a fugue too, and now hers just sounds joyous, too, noisy and fun, instead of labored and overthought.  Sometimes it’s so much better to let others do the teaching.