I know I shouldn't be writing, I should be in class, but this morning was fun - we just played.
There is something so satisfying about looking down at 35 high school students who are just making music for no particular reason, other than to just make music.
We work so hard and focus so much, sometimes we need to "just play", and a lot of the time we forget about that.
While I was up there swinging my arms for no particular reason (because they really didn't NEED a conductor), I watched - I watched eyes track across the page and fingers move and bows glide and smiles steal across lips, and everyone was where they needed to be and they knew it and they relaxed, and played; and I felt good inside, knowing they were just playing.
