Well there's a LOT of stuff going on with him....that was the whole point of the sabbatical. We were giving him time to get things worked out. He didn't want to take the time off, but we didn't give him a choice. We weren't getting what we were paying him for, and he was cancelling an hour before rehearsal every week. So we said no, you take the time off or we let you go completely. The problem is that there is a shortage of directors, so it was hard just to find him in the first place. We had a really good director for a while, but he moved because he decided to go in another career direction and he had taken a bunch of courses to do stuff with music in marketing or something? And then he had to go where the jobs were, so he left and couldn't be our director anymore. We looked for months, had several "try outs" for directors, thought we had one, and then after 3 weeks he decided he didn't want the job after all. He did the same thing to another choir....apparently he does it often. So then we had to find someone else and we got someone who wasn't really a director, per se, but could play the piano and teach voice parts. (I'm the only one who can read music, so most of the others learn by rote.) But then after a year or so, he decided to quit, and then covid happened. So we went for over a year without being allowed to rehearse anyway, and of course, without rehearsing, we couldn't pick a new director. And after covid, a lot of people had gotten more secure jobs in different fields, because the arts were vulnerable. Anyone in the entertainment industry had basically been out-of-work for more than a year, so they all went and got jobs in fields that could keep going despite the pandemic. So now it's rather hard to find a director, and choir people tend to talk to other choir people they know, so you hear about this other choir's experience with this director or that director and you don't want that one. Robin can't take up Erik's tasks...he doesn't play the piano, doesn't read music...he's purely a vocal coach. We need more direction than Robin can give. Once you know the music, he's great at helping you with the stage presentation part, staging, manipulating your voice, etc. But he can't do anything until you actually know the music. So if we let Erik go, we really don't have anyone unless we never want to learn anything new to stay relevant. BUT, if he hasn't changed, then it doesn't really help us to that end either.