My Mom and Dad came to visit me at LSU in the fall 2000 when I was a DMA graduate teaching assistant. It was a year before my father would pass away. I remember so well how my friends said my Dad was like a kid in a candy store being on campus. He came to my various classes and joyfully contributed. He and my mom also sang for my students at my voice class. Today I enjoyed my first day of spring break teaching some makeup lessons, singing with the college choir, and being on campus on a beautiful spring day. I usually teach at Wagner on Wednesday night so I got a kick out of my student saying to me “I’ve never seen you in the light of day”. He also thanked me for putting out the forest fires of vowels low in position. I loved the enthusiastic energy of the students; so filled with potential and ideas. And of course it was a special bonus to watch one student cruise around rehearsal in their roller blades. As the college kids would say, today was a great shot of dopamine after a very long Holy Week.
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