Music Monday

 A freedom of choice week.

When I was in junior high (early 1970’s) every child had some sort of musical education.  If you played an instrument you were in orchestra or band,  singers took chorus.  Everyone else took general music.  

I took chorus.  The teacher said I was an alto.

The sopranos usually sang melody and we altos sang harmony.

Except when the teacher chose a Karen Carpenter song.

She had the most incredible alto. And when the chorus sang her songs, we altos finally got to sing the melody. 

So today I will be playing some of her best.

And before I play the last one …a memory.

It was sometime in the mid 1990’s.  I was in a store in Penn Station, commuting home from my job in Manhattan.  A Carpenters song was playing … and I overheard a teenage girl say “It sounds like Christmas!”

She had recognized the voice, but never heard any Carpenters music except their Christmas album.

It’s a bit early for Christmas, but …