Mrs. Oxton

Mrs. Oxton was the director of the Cantabile girls Choir when I first met her. I was in Choristers, a younger kids’ version of Cantabile, and the choir had come to my school. I was excited because my friend’s sister was in Cantabile. Then when they started singing, it got really quiet, and we actually listened.

Mrs. Oxton started Cantabile fourteen years ago. She directed the choir for thirteen years before retiring last year. In 2008, Mrs. Oxton was asked to bring Cantabile to Europe for the world premiere of To be Certain of the Dawn, a holocaust oratorio.

Mrs. Oxton is an extremely hard working woman, and as I said before, she started and ran the choir for thirteen years. She is wise, thinking of new ways to teach people, about singing, culture, and history. She is also very kind, I never remember her yelling or raising her voice at anyone, and she loved bringing her grandchild to practices to show off her hula-hooping skills.

I am so glad that I met Mrs. Oxton, and I ‘m sorry that she doesn’t direct Cantabile anymore. She inspired me to be hardworking, caring, and to want to try to start something that would impact other people as much as she and cantabile impacted me.