What's with these MLM type business things? Or perhaps it's just that I'm reaching the age where these things might just start making enough sense to actually listen to?

Anyway, I'm at my store [Great Earth Vitamins @ Hillsdale/Serramonte] and I end up meeting a woman who wants to show me her business. So I say yes and finally get around to meeting her after work at Marie Callender's. She invited a business partner of hers. In the midst of the presentation her business partner asks me what I do. When I replied, "Well, right now I sing with the SFSU Chamber Singers," she replied with, "Wow! My son sings with the San Francisco Boys Chorus!" To which I replied, "So did I, way back in 1985."

Well, it turns out that the Boys Chorus has gotten back on track [I may have joined at one of the lower points of its career] and they have now four levels of singing [as opposed to three in 1985] as well as a Graduate Chorus, and, to my pleasant surprise, an Alumni Chorale! At this point the business presentation is now taking second fiddle as I now want to find out all I can about this Alumni Chorale.

So I got around to emailing the SFBC's Artistic Director, Ian Robertson, who also happens to be the conductor of the SF Opera Chorus. After a few emails it turns out that, god willing and schedule permitting, I may be joining the Alumni Chorale for the Boys Chorus' spring concert at Grace Cathedral! I've been thinking about this all day. I've just received an email from the contact for alumni activities. It turns out that there's also a Barbershop Quartet style group made up of the alumni, which also sounds fun.

I was telling my choir director...this cold/allergy thing I caught was nothing but the Choral Flu! I think I'm hooked

Makin' Mine Music

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