Pretty Neat

Maya and Linda, Swedish friends

Actually daughter and mom.  I've know Linda and her sister Gail (now from Atlanta) for over 40 years and reconnected to them via Facebook a few years back.  Gail is a superb pianist and is one of Atlanta's most community involved citizens including a lot of work with the Atlanta Symphony.  We first met when I think she was 12 or so and played a Mozart piano concerto with an orchestra I was conducting.  Her sister Linda played flute.  She (Linda) now does international work on behalf of children and in her spare time writes lots of kids books. She knows my daughter and each of my 4 grand daughters are well stocked with her work. Obviously both of these women were blessed with more talent than sunshine in a jar.

Linda's daughter, Maya, studies in London and the reason for this little paean is that Maya, president of her college choir, organized a concert (i.e recruited the singers, got the music, found accompanists and a conductor, arranged for the hall and put on the show) in London and from all accounts it went very well.  That is one of the points - the passing on of talent and "getting something done" and the other, perhaps more important observation, is that she undertook something, probably without knowing what she was getting into, and did it all, soup to nuts.

There are no college courses that I know of that train you for putting on a concert and let me tell you, after doing it for years, by the time it comes to walk on stage, one's mind is fudge and your entire body aches.  The actual performance is a relief because it is the first time in weeks when one can do what he/she is trained to do.

Maya got into this and obviously just figured it out as she went along; overcoming the obstacles that the muses put in her path and that is the point.  She must have learned that determination from someone as no one is born with it and I suspect her mom and aunt had something to do with it;  attitude and persona by example.

Not my intention to make anyone blush but the doing of this undertaking is some pumpkins aside and over the good that live musical performance can achieve.  I think of it as writing a book but in doing so you have to learn how to make paper, if you catch my drift.

Nice job.  The snippet below is nice too.  Proof positive that with some spit and twigs, grit and "I'm gonna do it" frame of mind, we are capable of a lot of things.

See the snipet video here