Let's start with the 'what' as in 'what happened.' Saturday night at Carthage, I collaborated with Dr. Wael Farouk, director of keyboard studies at Carthage and the most astonishing piano virtuoso I have ever been privileged to know, in a performance of Franz Schubert's Die Winterreise, ('Winter Journey'), one of the towering masterworks in the
I had to say thank you today. Actually, I ended up singing thank you and playing thank you as well, because the woman being thanked was someone who played a gigantic role in my very earliest experiences as a musician in Colton, South Dakota- and mere words could not begin to express my gratitude for
It's been a big week of firsts for me. In addition to my first stint as a judge for Solo & Ensemble, this week also saw the launch of the podcast version of "The Morning Show," my interview program for WGTD for which I have been the sole host for more than twenty years. For
One of the sweetest things in life is when we finally get to cross something off of our bucket list - and I had that pleasure this past Saturday when I FINALLY did my first stint as a judge for Solo & Ensemble music contest. It seems like it has been a hundred years that
