I gave an hour of my time this morning to Polly’s top choir at Tremper for some entertaining which they agreed to do at the local Sentry supermarket. By my rough count there were about 30 of her students there, which I thought was a wonderful turnout, and fortunately she had an excellent balance among
I gave a couple of fun voice lessons tonight- one of them to Trevor, the first in months- and it felt so good to be making music again in preparation for another singalong Messiah. The other lesson was with Jan Mohr, a soprano in my church choir - and we were singing through several sacred
The phone rang during my last voice lesson of the day, and I immediately knew from the tone of my wife’s voice that something was wrong. Ellie, the older of our two golden retrievers, had thrown up three times - and while I’m sure my wife didn’t get out a tape measure or kitchen scale
I love Doubt. I don’t mean doubt itself. I’m referring to the Tony Award-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, which I was privileged to see on Broadway from a seat in the middle of the front row. It remains perhaps the most powerful experience I have ever had as an audience member, to see this
The picture says it all. Weston Noble, my choral director at Luther and now directing the Carthage Choir, came to Holy Communion’s second service yesterday. He’s had several invitations, but he has been out of town for quite a few weekends - and on a couple of other occasions he has been invited to other
Things were rocking in Carthage’s TARC (the Tarble Recreation Center) Saturday night with “Persevere: a Relay for Austin.” It was a big fundraiser planned by some of Austin’s friends, including his fraternity brothers in Delta Upsilon, with a whole lot of help from longtime family friend Jennifer Ledanski. They were given the entire upper floor
Saturday afternoon was going to be, according to all predictions, a triumphant moment for the Carthage football team, riding high from a tremendous win over Wheaton- ranked fourth in the nation - one week ago. Carthage fans were hoping that the last game of the season would be still another emphatic win, and there was
I walked into WGTD’s studios this morning with the weirdest mix of emotions- excited to the point of almost jumping out of my skin yet emotionally handcuffed by this uneasy sense that what I was so excited about wasn’t going to happen. The reason for all this emotional “pinball-ing”? Today at 930 the phone was
Corinne Ness and I have quite a problem on our hands. We spent three hours in the choir room today, listening to almost thirty different singers audition for the J-Term opera production, which she and I will be co-directing. Singer after singer came in and impressed us deeply - and several of them knocked our
Well, things were rocking at the Bergs this past Sunday afternoon with a party to celebrate the 75th birthday of my father-in-law, Bob Gall - a celebration which came just two weeks after my dad’s party in Madison. (Kathy and I may just permanently wear party hats for the rest of 2007, so as to
