25 years ago today was a cold, cloudy November Saturday. It was two days after Thanksgiving. My whole family had gathered at the family farm in Kenyon, Minnesota but I had to stay in Kenosha to work, but at least it was a quiet and easy-going holiday and weekend for me, if a bit quiet
Before I tell you about these amazing letters from members of the 9th Grade Choir of Bountiful Junior High School in Bountiful, Utah - and what it meant to me to read them for the first time this past Friday evening - I first have to tell you what kind of a day it had
The year is 1792 .... the city is Vienna .... and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been dead for about a year, but his friends frequent collaborators still can hardly believe it. Moreover, Mozart’s sudden and untimely death has left his widow Constanze heartbroken and heavily laden with debts. As a gesture of support, a number
Most singers and voice teachers (including me) have quite a love-hate relationship with the annual voice competition sponsored by NATS- the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In Wisconsin, it’s the first weekend in November that the best singers from nearly all of the state’s colleges, universities and conservatories converge on one designated campus for
