Tonight was the last four and half hours of our voice juries at Carthage - which usually happen during final exams at the very end of the semester, but due to an anomaly in the calendar we decided to try it this way. . . and one thing we did in deference to the weird
Pastor Jeff began this morning’s sermon with a wonderful image- He held up to the congregation a nondescript baseball, which had obviously been around for a long, long time. (It was a dark gray rather than the gleaming white of a brand new ball.) He said he came across this the other day in a
Kathy and I had a glorious time shopping this afternoon at Southridge Mall in Milwaukee . . . something we don’t get to do very often. And the mall was crawling with people, which would normally be a pain because it means fighting crowds, standing in line, etc. - but it was actually quite a
In a world savage enough to create Ultimate Fighting, a spelling bee might seem almost absurdly tame by comparison, roughly akin to a canasta tournament in an old folk’s home. But one visit to the Racine Literacy Council’s annual spelling bee is all it would take to correct this misunderstanding. This may be a competition
I am impressed with Dr. Eduardo Garcia-Novelli and the array of strategies he employs in bringing out the very best from every member of the Carthage Choir - everyone from the gung-ho-teacher’s-pet-music-major-with-an-emphasis-in-choral-conducting to the physics members whose also on the tennis team who just likes to sing for fun and has never worked this hard
I’ve been dropping in on “Beauty and the Beast” rehearsals over the last couple of nights and have been greeted by scenes of chaos and cacophony - angry outbursts and even fist fights. Fortunately, there all in the script. Doug has been working hard to polish the Mob Song and Fight Sequence, which is the
When our friend Rita Torcaso got married about a month ago - and what a spectacular wedding it was, in every way - she followed one bit of advice I gave her- a nice little touch which I remembered from a wedding back in Atlantic more than thirty years ago. The touch is this: at
There was something delicious brewing in the kitchen of Infusino’s Restaurant last night, and it wasn’t just their famous ravioli. Kathy and I, Polly, Mark and Lorelai, and a couple of Bob’s closest friends were hidden away in the kitchen of Infusino’s as part of a wonderful surprise cooked up by the Racine Dairy Statesmen,
Wisconsin NATS 2008 has come and gone, and it turned out to be a good competition for little old Carthage College, which goes head-to-head with all of the universities and colleges throughout the state - many with gigantic music programs that dwarf ours in number of students, size of budget, splendor of facilities, etc. After
My Friday overnight accommodations in Whitewater were with Marshall, and I was about to say that it was great fun - but I’m not sure that’s the best way to describe the evening we spent together, since over three hours was spent in front of the television watching “Schindler’s List” - and I was seeing
