Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – November 2025
Now we “fall back” as the time changes and so does the weather. But do we slow down? Oh no, we do not. If anything, we speed up now as we rush head long towards Christmas and all that entails. November is not really a “shoulder” month for real lives….only for hotels. Rehearsals are picking […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – October 2025
Fall in Alberta is so easy to love. Yes, despite the shorter days and longer nights and even that nip in the air. Change is good. Change is inevitable. Change can be beautiful and colourful with just a touch of reality thrown in for good measure. We must let go in order to experience fall […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – September 2025
Live your Music! Here we go again! SO excited to start another year of singing and acting with all of you. There’s an energy in the air that’s undeniable. While children go back to school excited to meet their teachers and friends, we get to go back to rehearsals together and find out what music […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – August 2025
Don’t worry, summer isn’t over yet! But planning for the new choir/performance terms has long begun. Actually, planning began in May. My neighbors always hear Christmas music coming from my home in June and have never complained. Yet….hahaha! My father weighs on my mind this summer. Should he stay or should he go? Yes, you […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – May 2025
And now, we’re fully into it all! Final show rehearsals in warm rooms, practising moving the show forward, remembering all the details, celebrating one performance done and done well (Forte Plus and SAOT), creating little candy baggys (yum), putting together pinwheels (mysterious), meeting our band members, figuring out which color represents each song (uplights!), “retiring” […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – April 2025
Here come those final rehearsals! If you are a performer of any variety, this is not the time to get complacent. Final rehearsals may feel like you know everything already and you’re just going through the motions but I urge you to find more. In fact, that is our job as performers – to find […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – March 2025
March heralds the turning of another season. We even get to turn our clocks ahead on Mar 9 and celebrate spring on Mar 20. International Women’s Day, Pi Day, St Patrick’s Day and even Eiffel Tower Day all fall in March. I encourage us all to find new ways of being, make some new friends, […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts for February 2025
Love is in the air! OR at least, that’s what our consumer driven world would like us to believe since the whole Valentine’s Day was invented so that retailers could make a lot of money. Perhaps, it is not wrong to contemplate love this month though. Perhaps, we need to simply look around us through […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts for January 2025
A fresh start. A time to reinvent ourselves. New beginnings. These are all words we use at this time of year….never mind the big “R” word! “Reso-what-now?” January itself is named after Janus the God of beginnings and transitions. He is a two-headed God looking back to the past and ahead to the future. Things […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts for December 2024
As we rush headlong towards Christmas, towards more joy, towards presents, towards more human interaction and towards more concerts/shows, we should probably stop and consider Christmas a little. Shall we, like Dickens suggested, honor it in our hearts and keep it all year round? Yes!Should we see it as a time to do something extra […]