Music Making 'beyond productivity'

This evening my children and I sang in our first concert together. We joined our local choral society in January, and tonight we performed Bach's St Matthew passion with a professional orchestra and soloists.

This is a a choir of amateurs that has run for over 60 years, fuelled on enthusiasm and a love of music.

Listening tonight, I reflected on the fact that aside from our hard work to produce a good sound worthy of the piece and for the enjoyment of our kind audience, we also all entered deeply into the moment, benefitted from a weekly boost to our mental health through our practice, but also created something beautiful in the service of others, learned some hard lessons through persevering with a challenging work and engaged in some deep inner work through our perseverance with that challenge.

It was a truly lovely example of being over doing, while offering something beautiful to others at the same time.

I'd really recommend music making to anyone looking for a new hobby, no matter how simple it is. Music brings healing and joy to the human heart!

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