Article August 23, 2010 Issue

LIFT UP YOUR VOICE

BY KIM SHIPPEY

ONE OF THE FIELD REPORTS at this year's Annual Meeting of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, on June 7, was a video profile of Julia Wade, Church soloist. In that segment she explained that it's through song that she feels she best expresses herself—her sense of what God is, and how she feels about the world and everything around her.

Julia is truly much more of a musician than that segment revealed. She's been singing since she was three years old, when she climbed into the willow tree in the backyard of the family home and sang "not so quietly" about the sun and stars, and the birds and the flowers she saw around her.

Later, Julia played the flute in concerts and in the marching band at high school, and sang in the choir and in school musicals. It was about that time that she realized she had been singing through her flute for many years. It had been a perfect training. It helped her focus on purity of tone.

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