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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, I replied to an email from my equery in which I gave a history of and my person perspective on the Quire re-org of 2000.

In the middle of it, I go off on a wild theory discussion about the Purpose of Art, Type, and How to Read Books. Because me.

There was also some other discussion in the email after this about other topics, that I trimmed.

Added link. Fixed some spelling.

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> 1. I'm curious: can you send me your Pennsic dance guild structure
> proposal when it's done?

I'd be happy to. Note, it is probably more a meta-structure, like what I did for the Quire.

...With which you may be unfamiliar.

Hmm. I will try to describe. I'm mighty pleased with how that worked. Still needs a few things, including documentation. :)

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This is a document I wrote for the Quire, to inform the re-org of 2000(?). I may have written it in the early Fall of 2000. (Dear self: date your work.) I wrote it some time shortly before the Quire re-org meeting of Monday, September 25, 2000, at which it was distributed.

I'm enormously proud of it, because it did an enormous amount of work. It completely changed the discussion around how the Quire should function radically for the better in a way I don't think could have been otherwise accomplished.

Originally it was a hardcopy handout distributed at the organizational meeting, but then I put it in email for people who hadn't been there.

I got an enthusiastic and grateful private email back from a certain previous Quire director.

Here is the email edition; I've fixed a couple of spelling errors.

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Quire --

This is the handout I made for last night's meeting. If you weren't there, read it -- it was the basis of the ensuing discussion.

If you've directed the group and see big gaps in this list, please submit additions *IF* they are mission-critical to the group. Understand this list is not meant to be thorough, it's meant to be a baseline.

A report on the meeting will go out tonight.

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What goes into the Quire


From the point of view of someone singing in the Quire, the director is the person running rehearsal. By and large they are unaware of the behind the scenes work which goes into running a music group. They are much like young children who think milk "comes from the grocery store".

It is an unfortunate consequence of this that when the position of director comes open, the people who consider volunteering think of the job solely in that light. They in essence ask themselves if they are interested in being the person who runs rehearsals, and do not ask themselves if they are ready to take on the other responsibilities of which they have not been properly apprised. Obviously, this tends to result subsequently in the volunteer getting a nasty shock, and feeling like they've been snookered.

So, in the interests of full disclosure, I'd like to put forth a discussion of what precisely goes into running a singing group like the Quire, on a baseline minimum.

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