Dear Naynay99 and lolagrace, I respect your feedback. Thanks. Regarding advanced degrees, I rarely sign the master's degree in Education that I have, because I feel like I am boasting. But that's just me, I know. I only use it in situations where I am presenting myself as an expert. I get letters to the editor of our paper very frequently -- maybe 7 in the last 6 months. Sometimes I sign my degree initials, if I am writing about education, but even when I do, the paper leaves them off.

That's interesting about some composers putting the choir off-sight. Would that ever be for an actual choir concert -- have you had experience of being in an off-stage for a choir concert? If so, I will happily stand corrected. That happens in theatre productions (plays, etc) There was only one occasion in my long experience in choirs, where the choir was in the balcony -- but we were also up front. It was in a chapel. There were two choirs, five parts in each one -- totaling 10 parts. So one choir was in the front of the chapel, the other one was in the balcony. I wish I could have heard the effect for the audience! It must've been gorgeous. Every other choir concert I was in, we were visible on the stage.