The vocal department at Carthage has truly entered the space age this week, with a visit from a good friend of ours named Dan Ihasz, a voice teacher from Fredonia, NY. My wife rolls her eyes when I introduce him this way, but here it is anyway: Dan and Kathy were buddies in high school
I have been meaning to write about a very meaningful moment from this past weekend, but I wanted to write about it when I wouldn’t be in a rush. Tonight is the night with a silent snow falling outside and the dogs asleep at my feet. I’m thinking tonight about a recent Carthage graduate named
This photograph captures a neat scene from an event which I emceed this afternoon at the Kenosha Women’s Club- the Afternoon Tea sponsored by the Kenosha Orchestra Boosters. This organization exists to support the orchestra program for the Kenosha Unified School District - and this event featured performances by students from all of the middle
I told the audience at today’s Kenosha Orchestra Boosters event that when there is a special guest as famous as Rachel Barton at a small community event like this one, 99 times out of 100 they will breeze in right before their moment in the spotlight, do their thing, and will be on their way
Kathy and I were part of a really fun event tonight at First United Methodist Church in Kenosha, the site of the sing-along Messiahs which I have conducted. Tonight was a fundraiser for that fine arts series, and the night culminated in a program of Broadway music that really went over like gangbusters. I think
One of the things I was most dreading about this spring semester at Carthage was having to teach a section of Heritage, the course which all freshmen take.... and nearly all freshmen hate... and which consequently most of us dread teaching. But when it goes well, Heritage can be a very fulfilling experience - and
The search is on for a new conductor of the Carthage Choir. (The adventure with Mr. Noble cannot go on, forever, I’m sad to say.) This week the choir has hosted two of the four finalists for the position, and I must say that the process is a thorough one. Each candidate is being given
My duties for WGTD last night were to be at the campaign headquarters of Michael Bell, one of six candidates hoping to be ther next mayor of Kenosha. (Our current mayor, John Antaramian, is retiring after 16 years in office.) This was a primary to determine which two candidates would go on to the general
The above photograph features the recently-operated-upon left foot of my WGTD colleague Dave McGrath. What a colossal pain this has been for Dave, and all because of bunion surgery. I don’t know about you, but I always thought that a bunion was just some little painful sore like a corn - and you dealt with
I have been meaning to write a few words about the savage shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University last week - but at first I had nothing helpful or insightful to say. I still don’t, but I recently learned that our good friends the Marcheses (Paul is a former student of mine,
