Tag: COVID-19
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Live applause
Just after 4 p.m. yesterday, I heard live applause in a concert setting for the time in over a year. And I almost wept. The choral concert at Webster University took place outdoors. Under brilliant blue sky. In temperate weather. With minimal wind. With our masks on, both on stage and in the audience. With…
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First class
Yesterday (Monday, 24 August) I met in person with a class of students for the first time since early March. The experience was gladdening. Happy. A bit scary. Surreal. Unusual. New. Unsatisfying. Yet satisfying. Some of these sophomore musical theatre majors (for these are the students in my lecture class) had not seen each since…
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Reality
This is our new reality in Thompson House at Webster University. Chairs are spaced with six feet in every direction, leaving 21 chairs in the recital hall. Main-floor hallways are one-way only. And I almost cried when I went to my office yesterday. I love that space, and I’d not been there in weeks.
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Not safe
Sadly. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/888945949/is-singing-together-safe-in-the-era-of-coronavirus-not-really-experts-say
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What to do?
The news just keeps getting worse, and the decisions more and more fraught. https://community.chronicle.com/news/2385-as-safety-concerns-mount-many-colleges-hold-fast-to-reopening-plans
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Lonely
Thompson House is lonely. No students. No staff. No faculty. No music. May this contagion and evil misery of the coronavirus be over soon, so that we can again make sweet sounds in the same room at the same time!
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Welcome to my day
These are just the Zoom lessons. This doesn’t include the office work or the WebEx meetings!
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From Webster’s task force
I am SO glad I did not got to NYC three weeks ago! I know of at least two others who went to NYC separately, and who have shown symptoms, but have not been tested and are now appearing to be better. This virus is no joke. It’s evil, and it’s deadly. To the Webster…