One way I celebrated surviving my wild spring semester at Carthage was to attend the opening night performance of Kenosha Unified’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” My most immediate reason for wanting to go was to cheer on a voice student of mine, Landon, who was singing the role of Charlie Brown-
A big part of the wildness with which I contend every spring is the plethora of recitals which pepper the calendar - the recitals for which I’m pianist, the recitals for which I’m a jurist, and those recitals that I simply want to attend. Add all of that up and I’m left with scarcely enough
It is so hard to say goodbye, especially to really good people who leave us too soon. And twice over the last ten days, I have tasted that pain. But as painful as those goodbyes were, they were also amazingly uplifting celebrations of what it means to be a really good person and of the
Dispatches from the 2011 State Solo & Ensemble contest at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside . . . my craziest day of the year and my favorite day of the year. . . 5:50 a.m. - Out of bed easily because I’m too hyped up to stay there any longer. I take an especially thorough shower
