This post is by AMN founder Lolly Lewis.
How quaint it sounds now, although it was only a year ago when I wrote a New Year’s greeting that celebrated upcoming workshops and our Orchestra Fantasy Camp project:
“Our 2020 vision: a musical year for all. We at AMN hope that you find even more joy in playing and singing in the new decade.”
We managed to host two in-person workshops before the world shut down. Looking back, they are such a treasure in my memory. Goodness knows when we will be back making music in a room together, certainly nowhere soon enough.
I know there’s some light at the end of this long tunnel, but I can’t quite make it out yet. So that’s why AMN will keep bringing light into the darkness of our separation.
We are so grateful to see you in AMN online workshops. They bring our images and our spirits together to acknowledge one another and to keep our love of music alive. If “We’re still here!” is all it does, we’ll keep doing it until there are better options once again.
So I’ll wish you, yet again, as musical a year as possible in 2021. May we be together in person by the time this new year is over.
