Singing in the background can be disconcerting when you’re used to being the sole focus of attention – as most choirs are. However, there are several lessons you can learn from being “background music” in performance.
- This is how many musicians work all the time. Performing their best, while knowing they are the secondary or tertiary focus of their “audience.”
- Excellence doesn’t require an audience. We perform to our best, whether or not anyone is listening.
- Any performance is an opportunity. You can make music for yourselves, learn and improve your art, with expectations that are very different than a rehearsal.
Go carol in a restaurant, or sing in an office lobby. You will get intermittent attention, followed by a respectful ignoring. And you will learn.