Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My husband had a concert yesterday afternoon.  It's a small chorus and they had nineteen pieces they sang.  I thought the basses were great.  My husband is one.  But only a couple of the songs out of all really had me attentive and engaged.  Most were not polished, which figures when there are so many and they cannot practice anywhere all of the them each week.  The concert would have been more powerful if the conductor had picked only the songs really ready for performance.  My husband said the conductor gets bored and wants the variety, but I believe he hurt the chorus members, who are volunteers and not professionals.  He thought of what he was interested in, not what the chorus could reasonably accomplish.  Conductors have egos, but maybe it's good he's not continuing and the board will have to find a new conductor.  My favorite piece was "Solace" written about and after the Stonybrook school shooting.  It talks of falling snow and children falling and hands held out to help them on their journey.  I had tears in my eyes and my husband says he gets choked up every time he sings it, as do others in the chorus.  I didn't need spirituals after hearing that, or "Beautiful Dreamer" or "Mr. Sandman".  This little chorus is amateur and touching, and I think perhaps the conductor has not appreciated what a gift in them he had.