Yesterday I wrote about 10/10 rehearsals. Here’s the big reason we shouldn’t have every single rehearsal operate at ultimate peak efficiency.
We are not cogs. We are not robots designed for a task and then optimized to peak output.
The human growth process is messy, filled with false starts, dead ends, and sudden strokes of insight. When you try to optimize that into a perfect, infinitely repeatable process, you necessarily forfeit humanity.
Turning your students into efficient cogs in service of some musical goal will have wonderful short-term results for the music. And terrible long-term results for the human beings.
We all feel like cogs too much in the 21st Century. Choir shouldn’t turn into one more venue to subvert our humanity.