4:15 a.m.- The alarm goes off. Not by accident but by design. 5:10 a.m.- I begin a two-and-a-half-hour composing session in the Recital Hall at Carthage. It's my favorite place to work when I either have to refine musical ideas or generate brand new ones. There's something about that particular piano (a beautiful Yamaha) and
The Racine Theater Guild's production of "Mary Poppins" is nearly the end of its run .... or perhaps we should we say "flight," since Mary actually flies in our production. Whatever you call it, this production has been a joy both for those who have experienced it, as well as those who are delivering it.
A Christmas anthem I composed in 1999.
This past weekend was filled to the brim with wonderful things for me- a Mary Poppins performance at the Racine Theater Guild that knocked my socks off, our splendid Christmas program at church that both thrilled me and moved me to tears, two different student recitals at Carthage that were each tremendously impressive and moving
This is the very first Greg Berg composition that was sung at Carthage - aside from an arrangement of the hymn "Cold December Flies Away." I don't remember the precise year, but I know that it was the early to mid 1990's .... so ancient history! :-) I wish I had a
This morning was our annual "Look for the Light" program at Holy Communion .... and it's impossible to convey in mere words just how remarkable it is. It's the presence of living animals at the front of the sanctuary that tends to grab the headlines, but there is so much more to this it
Our bass soloist for the upcoming Sing Along Messiah in Kenosha is Mike Anderle. I was Mike's voice teacher through all four years of his high school career plus his four years at Carthage - so we go back quite a long ways - and I could not be more delighted at the prospect of
One of the greatest pleasures of being a voice teacher (and I've said it before) comes in those moments when we get to introduce a student to a special piece of music from our own past - and it's especially exciting the very first time that a particular piece of music gets shared in this
One of the greatest musical thrills I get to experience, year after year, is when I conduct Kenosha's Sing Along Messiah at First United Methodist Church in Kenosha. This year's Messiah is coming up on Sunday night, December 20th at 6 p.m. Here is a sampling of the night's tenor soloist, Nick Huff, singing
This is Adolphe Adam's "O Holy Night" as performed by Nick Huff and Mike Anderle- with the first verse sung in its original French. Enjoy.
