07/09/2024
“When I first meet them as soon as they get here, I’m like - you are here to learn a superpower. And you’re gonna learn to do something not everybody on the earth can do. You will have the ability to make the hair on the back of someone’s neck stand up, to make them feel sorrow, to have them feel the happiness, to laugh within the song. You are going to be able to persuade them to feel the mood of the music, depending on how you’re performing. And so that’s your new superpower. And what what a powerful thing to persuade the emotion and the mood of the music. And at first some of them are always like, Oh, you’re crazy.” (Jill Smith, Lehi Junior Director of Choirs)