Of Old Friends and Great Surprises
by Megan M. on November 12, 2007 · View Comments (Music) |
Late Wednesday evening, I picked up my voicemail on my way home from Body Choir. I had the following message, which blew me off my feet:
“Megan Elizabeth Morris, this is Michael Alan Match, a blast from your past. I am, erm, working for Chanticleer now, and guess what! I am sitting in a hotel room in Austin, Texas, and Sarah reminded me that you lived here. So I was wondering how you were doing, and if you are still here, and what your schedule is like… because we are giving this concert tomorrow night in Austin…”
I made a beeline for his hotel, calling him back for directions and showing up on his doorstep. Michael Match! We talked for an hour and a half before I realized that it was getting too close to midnight and I needed to be up early for a Thursday full of meetings. I can’t even describe to you how wonderful it was to see him and chat with him and get updated on each other’s lives. People change in so many incredibly wonderful and interesting ways. Who have you lost touch with? You might give them a call. They might miss you as much as you miss them.
Thursday afternoon my schedule serendipitously allowed me to slip away from my meetings for a few hours to take him to lunch. We ate at La Madeleine (after I somehow was unable to find Kerbey Lane—what’s up with that?) and talked for another hour or two before I took him back to his hotel. Three hours later I got a text message from him—he had found TWO tickets for Thursday night’s sold out performance and I went through the wringer reshuffling my schedule to make sure Marty and I could go. In case you didn’t hear me the first time, Michael Match is singing with Chanticleer. Is that not the most fantastic thing you’ve heard ever??
More very soon. I am absolutely stuck because I get distracted thinking about college performances, weird half-memories of NATS and Xerxes and singing in the same studio and being so proud of the people I cared about there. But I will get through it, and you’ll get to hear all about Thursday night’s amazing Chanticleer performance.
Whew! It’s almost too exciting to write about!
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