"If music be the food of love."

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Quite happy to be playing the keyboard and guitar on a non-hobby basis this year.  I had accompanied a holiday choir in my institution last year and I've been asked to do it again. What I particularly enjoy about playing for singers is the need to fill-in the tonal gaps.  For instance, the singers are all female so there's a lack of the bass and tenor voices and so I tend to focus the accompaniment on the lower keys. Also, the person who leads the group chose either sheet music or chords and I enjoy reading both--I also like having to transpose the key to accommodate everyone's voices.  It's a good way to exercise the brain and recall key signatures. It's fun to wing it when it comes to these laid back venues. There is something preternatural about making music--music in general; that music can express whatever cannot be communicated via some vernacular.  I suddenly remembered a sonnet read by Tom Hiddleston (Loki himself hah)...