The night before last, I was sitting in the Racine Theater Guild, watching rehearsal for “Gypsy” and marveling at all of the fine performances unfolding on that stage . . . but nothing prepared me for the shattering impact of Teri Wilson doing the climactic “Rose’s Turn.” This is the scene at the end of
Yesterday was when Carthage paid its major tribute to Dr. Sjoerdsma on the occasion of his retirement after 39 years of teaching. One of his nephews got up at the reception to say that he had just retired from some company and his departure was acknowledged with two dozen doughnuts that someone brought to the
I have been thinking about yesterday’s State Solo and Ensemble competition and what that kind of thing has meant to me over the years. Back in my high school days , when electric lights had just been invented and Tchaikovsky was still alive, state music contest was the one day during the school year when
It was party time at the Bergs tonight- and this time it was a gathering of Carthage buddies over a couple of generations This is the weekend of the farewell gala concert for Dr. Richard Sjoerdsma, and one of the honored guests for the concert - a friend of Kathy’s named Jeannie (Moerke) Mazzano -
I am probably like most messy people in that I tend to be fairly oblivious to the messes I make in which I’m living or working - or if not totally oblivious, I am pretty much unbothered by those messes, except in that “boy, my wife would kill me if she saw how awful this
