I asked my dad to say a few words about Love for my recent faculty recital- and he surprised me when he said that he wanted to say a few words about Florence Foster Jenkins. It turns out that her story is a love story in more ways than one, as he explained beautifully. He also shared some information about FFJ that I, for one, did not know. And as he finishes up, he invited Kathy to the stage to regale the audience with a brief excerpt from her performance of FFJ in the Racine Theater Guild’s memorable production of “Glorious.”
And when Kathy finished singing, dad came up onstage for a surprise presentation to the two of us ….. a wonderful anniversary gift from him, his wife Sonja, and my siblings- and that gift was one of the original albums recorded by Florence that she would have given to one of her friends. (You can tell its one of the original batch because the label is type-written.) It was a complete and wonderful surprise!
