Building a legacy in your choir takes time, and comes with many benefits.
When you see an established music teacher with twenty-plus years in a school, you will often hear remarkably sophisticated musical performance. One of the things you are hearing is the legacy. The effort that educator paid into their choirs over the previous nineteen years has echoes in the current year.
It can be frustrating to have to wait for this legacy to build. And it doesn’t build itself – it is built by excellence, hard work, consistency, love, and community. But once built, it can outlast any graduating class, it can outperform the most talented choir without a legacy, and it can survive even a change in leadership, given a replacement willing to take up the legacy.
What are you doing to build the legacy for future students? What act did you do today that will have echoes for years?