“Where do we turn to nourish our souls during what can feel like a dark, fearful time?” writes Kate Hatmaker in last Sunday’s (3/22) San Diego Union-Tribune. Hatmaker is a violinist with the San Diego Symphony and executive and artistic director of the San Diego-based music group Art of Elan. “How many of us pause to reflect on the possibility that standing in line at Trader Joe’s might represent one of the last opportunities—for a while anyway—for a shared human experience? … Art of Elan’s … recent concert at the San Diego Museum of Art saw 59 concertgoers actually show up in the rain for an intimate evening of beautiful and transportive music…. It was to be our last opportunity for the foreseeable future to commune with our listeners through music…. I [recently] called up … our local Costco to ask if I could bring my violin and set up outside the store somewhere to bring the music of Bach to the line of panic-stricken people just waiting to get in. So … let’s not forget to throw open our windows and doors once in a while. We might hear our neighbors singing, or perhaps witness a strolling musician.”
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