[Choir] Fwd: Gratitude!

[Donia Prince]

David Ruffin sent this message for all of you.  He would welcome any
thoughts or feedback you have about the workshop he led a couple weeks
ago.  You can email him directly.

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From: Dave Ruffin <daveruffin at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2023, 2:45 PM
Subject: Gratitude!
To: Donia Prince <ucm.music21 at gmail.com>


Dear UCM choir,

Thank you again for having me to UCM to work with you last weekend. I
really enjoyed our time together and was so grateful for your willingness
to go on the journey of exploration I invited you to join me in (despite
its peculiarity and/or vulnerability at times).

I hope you'll keep connecting with your bodies and voices in different ways
that keep that conversation fresh and alive, ever and always, both as you
warm up and sing together, and in your individual lives.

I hope you'll use the warming up time to warm up the connection between
yourself and your voice and body as well as each other.

I hope you'll keep exploring what is possible in expression and connection
when  you take the music into your heart and don't have to be in your head
to remember words or notes as muc (or at all!).

I hope you'll keep playing with the idea of *supporting* one another, your
community, Donnia, and the music itself, as you sing together.

I hope you keep letting love lead the way in your work together, and
experience all the love in all the music you sing, big enough to, at least,
help fill in the gaps between the world we dream of and the one we live in
day by day. A much needed gift.

And I hope you'll have me back to sing with you again! : )

Please use my email to write to me with any specific feedback that might
help me support others (or you) better in the future. As I told you, I'm
early in the journey of sharing my voice work with groups, but I plan to do
it a lot, so this was a great opportunity for me. I welcome knowing more
about your experience and perspective (though no pressure).

With care and appreciation,
David

PS - The word on the street was Bridge Over Trouble Water *connected* with
people!



-- 
*David Ruffin*
he/him

*www.davidruffinvoice.com <http://www.davidruffinvoice.com>*
"The voice is the muscle of the soul"
~ Alfred Wolfsohn
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