Resa Kochberg, conductor of the Resa's Pieces Concert Band, speaks to the audience at the 10th Annual Gala about the band - her Superheroes.
Superheroes
R Us
No matter what age you are, everyone
has a super hero in their life. Your superhero might be a fictional
one - Spiderman or Batman - but sometimes it’s someone we know who
we look up to or a kind of person we inspire to be. To us, these people
have extraordinary powers and/or abilities and sometimes we see them
as living duo lives – doing one thing during the day and another at
night. Many superheroes work independently. However, there are also
many superhero teams. I believe that the "Resa’s Pieces" band
members truly are superheroes!
They may not be the kind of superhero
that puts their life in danger to protect us but they each have their
own story that explains the circumstances by which they became motivated
enough to start back playing an instrument they hadn’t played for
some 25-30 years. As you can imagine this was not easy.
It’s been with determination
that they’ve practiced, practiced and practiced to achieve their
skill level and it’s with this willpower that they keep practicing
to improve. Every year Resa’s Pieces band members learn a whole new
repertoire and every year their playing has improved. They’re individually
remarkable people and together they create a remarkable team. We need
people like the Resa’s Pieces band members to inspire us so that we
might hope we can be better than we are and also be motivated to realize
that it’s never too late to do something we yearn to do.
It’s obvious to me that with our repeatedly sold out audience that there are a lot of people who
are also very proud of them. As the Resa’s Pieces tag line says – "Recall
those sounds, Reawaken that talent, Rediscover playing music" all
the band members certainly have. I’d like to dedicate “Superheroes
R Us” to my Superheroes.