Tonight was the third and final concert of the ’07 Racine Symphony Lakeside Pops season, and believe it or not the most thrilling thing about this concert was not Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (which nonetheless was fabulous) or Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” (which was exquisite) or the suite from “Oklahoma” (which was a blast.)
It’s been a busy, challenging week- especially when it comes to my poor old noggin! Sunday and Monday was the two-day Carthage music faculty retreat, and we worked hard as we discussed an array of important issues and challenges confronting us - including the crunch of being down two full-time faculty at a moment when
It has been more than two years since Kathy and I have seen our nephew Henry, who lives with his two dads out in faraway Seattle. But I felt very close to him and to Steve and Scott this morning at church when I sang a new song of mine for the very first time.
I have sung for countless funerals over the years, but the one I sang for yesterday was like no other. It was a very painful funeral for everyone concerned because the deceased had committed suicide, leaving behind him a grieving wife and two children, other relatives, and many many friends. I didn’t know him or
This film is not quite as well known as the original and it doesn’t star Susan Sarandon. But who needs her when you have as entertaining a threesome as Kathy Berg, Val Conner, and Kate Potter Barrow? They are off on a little road trip together as the summer winds down - and it will
It was one year ago today that Kathy’s mother, Jan Gall, died after a long struggle with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. She was 69 years old. It some ways that day seems like yesterday- and in other ways that day feels like something from an entirely different lifetime. I visited my mother-in-law late that morning -
This is the road I take almost every weekday morning when I’m heading home after the radio station. It’s Wood Road, and if you follow it south all the way into Kenosha it becomes 30th Avenue, the street on which WGTD is located. Yesterday morning, this little stretch of Wood Road (just before the county
My poor wife brought up iPhoto late last evening just before we went to bed and asked me with just a touch of exasperation in her voice, “why did you take pictures of our kleenix?” I pretended not to hear the question, especially because the answer is pretty obvious to me- my blog! Kathy and
Yesterday was the 70th birthday party for a good buddy of ours, Jack Dehne. Mother Nature could not have been more uncooperative, and for much of the afternoon it rained like the day Noah finished his boat. But Jack’s wife and kids had rented a big tent and the garage was also taken up with
It was one of the stranger moments in my singing life, but it turned out to be pretty neat. The phone rang several days ago, and it was Kathy’s dear friend Laura (a close friend since high school- one of Kathy’s bridesmaids- still a very special friend.) She and her sister are now the co-owners
