Here is a fun moment from my most recent faculty recital – as my current Carthage voice students (the upperclassmen, that is) joined me for “There is nothing like a dame” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. I didn’t list any of the pieces sung in the second half, so this came as a complete surprise for most of the people in the audience- and I even introduced it in such a way that the audience would not be expecting something quite so comical. The guys learned this piece in a single week- and our collective rehearsal time was almost nil, so they had to take it upon themselves to get it prepared and memorized. I couldn’t have been prouder.
My thanks to my eleven upperclassmen. They are, in order of when you hear them: Karl Stefans, TJ Gaertig, Andrew Rewerts, Peter Burch, Jon Engle, Joe Pettit, Jack Haggett, Matt Thome, Austin Merschdorf, Matt Burton, and Christian Aldridge. I love you guys!
(P.S. – I don’t have any photos from this year’s recital, so the attached photo is of when my guys joined me on my 2012 recital.)