A Mall and the Night Visitors

I dreamed that on the day of my first voice lesson of the semester I went to my teacher's office in the music building and knocked on the door as I customarily do before my lessons. No one answered, so I opened the door and discovered that my voice teacher's studio had been replaced with a Nordstrom. I went inside and wandered around the racks of clothing and shoe displays but I couldn't find my voice teacher anywhere, so I left through the same door where I had entered. However, when I passed through the door, instead of being back in the music building I was inside a mall.

Naturally I was pretty confused, so I found the mall's information desk, where real-life music school secretary Karen Frye was stationed. I asked her what happened to my teacher's studio, and she told me that his office had been relocated to the food court.


I went down to the food court and found the stall that had been converted into a voice studio about ten minutes before my lesson was scheduled to begin. Professor Serbo, my teacher, saw me coming and told me that since I was ten minutes early, he was going to sleep until our lesson started. He disappeared into the back and I waited around for him to return until I woke up.

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I had this dream the night before my first lesson of the semester and the lesson began I told the whole dream to Prof. Serbo. The idea of teaching voice lessons in the food court made him laugh so hard he literally started crying. It was priceless.

Note: The title of this post is a play on the popular Christmas-themed opera Amahl and the Night Visitors. Professor Serbo starred in a production of Amahl last December that aired on local public television.