Summer Sizzle 2019 in Owen Sound was a resounding success!

CNCM would like to offer many thanks to all the participants who made Summer Sizzle 2019 in Owen Sound truly memorable: students, teachers, composers, clinicians, parents, grandparents, friends, and organizers and, volunteers! Look what a community coming together, blessed by music can do!

The following are words from Nancy Telfer (who holds an Honorary Licentiate from Northern Lights CNCM), read aloud at the Convocation Gala at SS:

Dear Friends,
If some day you should ever wonder about the who or what or why of your life, then remember this:
We are the music makers.
Our fortes thunder and we know the magic of how to get sweet whispers from a piano.
We are the people who count. We count beats and bars; we keep track of time. We understand the small details and the luxurious stretches of time.
We are the melody makers and with our melodies we can make eagles soar and lions roar.
We are the harmonizers. We can fill a room with such a richness of sound that it makes everyone feel bigger.
We are the movers and dancers. We participate in the flow of life; the slow, graceful rotation of the earth; the leaps; the whirls.
But, most of all, we are the dreamers. We imagine sounds so beautiful or so expressive that words can not describe them.
We are the music makers.

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