"There are no antebellum homes in Latvia!"

What a great privilege having Dr. Jerry Jordan come to work with our choir this week. I feel as though a cycle in my life has been completed, from the days of first wanting to be in a choir in high school till now. My junior year in high school, and up until then intermittently, I was exposed to wonderful choral music via a cd entitled "Light and Live" by the Ole Miss Concert Singers. This music REALLY made me want to be in a choir like that in college, and only after some time did I find out about Dr. Jordan's being the conductor. When I found out about Dr. Copeland's time at Ole Miss and exposure to that level of excellence, I was ecstatic when I came to be in UAB's choir. And now, now that we have made a name for ourselves as the UAB Concert Choir, to have Dr. Jordan come work with us was a dream come true. It is funny to think that three or four years ago I was thinking wow, that would be awesome to be in that group, but it's even better now, knowing that we are our OWN choir, but still with those same influences. ANNNYways, as I sit in class, I felt like a sponge soaking up every word Dr. Jordan had to say to us. It was exciting sitting in the presence of genius like that, and it made me realize that that is NOT as an unusual experience as it may sound, we are so INCREDIBLY lucky to have Dr. Copeland working with us three days a week working to make us an incredible choir. I know the things we learned this week will help us all in the coming months to become better choral singers, and I know Dr. Copeland will use what we learned to its furthest extent. I also think maybe we'll understand Dr. Copeland a little better, I know a lot of us commented, "Now I know why Dr. Copeland is the way he is" ;) Anyways, thanks so much to Dr. Jordan, and I know we're ready to get back to work with Dr. Copeland....see ya next week
charles