I love this Peanuts comic strip panel from several decades ago - the culmination of a week-long story arc devoted to Linus excitedly preparing to watch a total eclipse of the sun. For a whole week, readers of Peanuts were treated to the story of Linus's excited preparations to view this dramatic event- only
The simplest question I am ever asked about the Morning Show is: Who decides who you get to interview on your program? The answer is: I do. It's one of the best things about working at a small place like WGTD and working for a general director who trusts me not to limit the program
I am 55 years old- which qualifies me for a subscription to AARP magazine. On many questionnaires it shunts me to the last age category that can be checked: "55 and over." If I were employed by Racine Unified School District, I could retire. It even makes me eligible to live in the Senior Apartment
This song of mine that has only been sung once - and I'm not sure it will ever be sung again because it was crafted for a very special occasion as a gigantic surprise for my sister-in-law, Polly. She missed a few weeks at Tremper High School because of the birth of her daughter/my
I composed "Great and Glorious Light" on Thanksgiving Day 1998 when my wife asked me to please not be underfoot while she finished preparing the evening's big meal. I ended up walking over to our church to play on the new Baldwin grand piano there, and quite unexpectedly I ended up writing a new piece
My song "Strength" was originally composed for SATB - but for my faculty recital in the fall of 2014, I decided to re-arrange it for men's voices so the guys in my voice student could join me - and that song proved to be perhaps the most exciting moment on the recital. For as well
Here is my arrangement of John Newton's great hymn- an arrangement which I initially did for th Chamber Singers back in the late 1990's. It was inspired in part by a beautiful picture book which presented black and white photo of a variety of abandoned churches, with the full text of Newton's hymn- all six
"Pace" is Italian for "peace." I composed this piece during the summer of 2001, and both my Chamber Singers at Carthage at my Senior Choir at Holy Communion sang it for that Christmas season, which happened to follow on the heels of 9-11. This piece has not yet been published, but you're welcome to contact
I wrote my song "Strength" in the fall of 2000, while I was serving as interim conductor of the Carthage Choir. The Carthage school year begins with a special New Student Convocation, and that particular year President Campbell was titling his address "Philosophers and Gladiators." (The film "Gladiator" had just come out.) He asked me
Today, a word about Mountaintops. My wife has always had a thing for the mountains. She loved them when she first saw them on vacation as a little girl, and she grew to love them even more on a Carthage Choir tour to Europe. (cue: Randall Thompson's "Ye shall have a Song" which climaxes with
