Laura Rebell Gross
I just woke up to this sad news and am reading and my head is spinning with images and memories...Trauty was a once in a life time teacher, a life-changer, and one crazy mother-xxxer! In my own life, there is no way to describe the happiness that those years in Concert Choir and musicals brought to me and the way those experiences have shaped me as a person, a teacher, and even a mom (although I don't throw chairs at my students or my kids.) He embodied the word passion...loved what he did with a kind of energy that most people can't even fathom, and made his students believe in ourselves in a way that only great teachers can. During my years at BBHS, he took us to England, Montreal, and The Grand Canyon. The friendships we formed on those trips and during those shows were some of the most important of my lift! Going to choir or show rehearsal was always the best part of my day in high school...I can so easily see Trauty in front of us now...those eyes popping out, the hands coming together with precision, and him mouthing the first words of whatever we were about to sing. Trauty, you were one of a kind. The lord bless you and keep you...
Laura Rebell Gross
Does anyone remember these..Trauty taught it to us in 1989...don't know if he had done it before with earlier consort choirs, but it seems fitting...I always sing this to my daughters:
If I had the time, I'd follow in your laughter
Each before and after, I'd be laughing too
And..if I had the place, I'd place you as the treasure
Where I might and leisure, stop a while and gaze at you.
For now, is getting soon and late, you'll have to take the hand of delaying now.
For now you'll have to wait and try to understand what I'm saying.
Once there was a dream, but now the dream is over
It was done and over, and I don't know why
But I don't have the time or place or dreams to give you
All I have to give you is a little love
For now
I just woke up to this sad news and am reading and my head is spinning with images and memories...Trauty was a once in a life time teacher, a life-changer, and one crazy mother-xxxer! In my own life, there is no way to describe the happiness that those years in Concert Choir and musicals brought to me and the way those experiences have shaped me as a person, a teacher, and even a mom (although I don't throw chairs at my students or my kids.) He embodied the word passion...loved what he did with a kind of energy that most people can't even fathom, and made his students believe in ourselves in a way that only great teachers can. During my years at BBHS, he took us to England, Montreal, and The Grand Canyon. The friendships we formed on those trips and during those shows were some of the most important of my lift! Going to choir or show rehearsal was always the best part of my day in high school...I can so easily see Trauty in front of us now...those eyes popping out, the hands coming together with precision, and him mouthing the first words of whatever we were about to sing. Trauty, you were one of a kind. The lord bless you and keep you...
Laura Rebell Gross
Does anyone remember these..Trauty taught it to us in 1989...don't know if he had done it before with earlier consort choirs, but it seems fitting...I always sing this to my daughters:
If I had the time, I'd follow in your laughter
Each before and after, I'd be laughing too
And..if I had the place, I'd place you as the treasure
Where I might and leisure, stop a while and gaze at you.
For now, is getting soon and late, you'll have to take the hand of delaying now.
For now you'll have to wait and try to understand what I'm saying.
Once there was a dream, but now the dream is over
It was done and over, and I don't know why
But I don't have the time or place or dreams to give you
All I have to give you is a little love
For now
