- Hi I'm John Sutton,
and I'm the Director of Choral Activities
in the School of Music at
Azusa Pacific University.
I love God and I love music,
so getting to be working
with music and with people
and students in a Christian
environment setting
is like a dream come true.
And so many people have a dream,
I get to live mine and I'm
really grateful for that.
I think I try to express
that to my students
in terms of no matter
what class I'm teaching,
whether it's conducting
or a choir that I conduct,
I'm really, really trying to
get them to become leaders.
To own their chair because I
think we really need leaders
in our society, in our
homes, in our communities,
in our school, in the field
of music and the arts.
And so I want them to really, really serve
and communicate with passion.
Whether that's singing
or playing an instrument,
that we don't just pull the bow across,
we draw it across in a
way that really makes
vital music making come to life.
