I just remembered another magical moment, or actually, series of moments.

In high school we had a very highly strung, very creative music teacher. She should have been performing on stage, IMHO. She was brilliant. She had to work as a single mother to raise her son, otherwise I think she would have been a full-time performer.

Anyway, she struggled with teaching because she was so nervy and lots of the girls in the classes bullied her mercilessly. She battled on though trying to turn us into appreciators of music.

She had a choir of a small, select group, and the harmonies that she managed to squeeze out of those singers made my spine tingle every time I heard them perform.

But the real masterpiece was when she pushed each and every class, willing and unwilling, into learning a song called Alleluia in 3 part harmony. Then she had the whole school, of 1000 girls, singing that song in 3 parts. If I got the spine tingles before it was nothing compared with that. What a rush!

Helen