Friday, September 28, 2012
Heading to Kansas to sing High Holy Days again, I decided to go out there a day early and visit the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. I had seen an article about it in the National Parks magazine and it looked incredibly beautiful. About an hour and a half north east of Wichita, in the Flint Hills, it was a bit too far to go back and forth in one day. Continue reading
Sunday, February 12, 2012
I drove up to Barre on Sunday, Feb. 5, and cried the whole way. The night before, Lenore and I did our French concert at Stonebridge and it was a disaster. Ok, it probably wasn’t as bad as I thought, and I’m sure they enjoyed it, but when I warmed up before the concert, on my own with the new exercises, I could tell that things did not feel quite right. Continue reading
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
After much anticipation, I finally had my first lesson with a new voice teacher, David Jones. Ever since I officially crossed over into the new chemical landscape of my “older body” my voice has felt like a stranger. It started last spring, around the time I was working on a French Baroque concert for RCP. Continue reading
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Michael and I returned to the Ukraine last week to do another concert with the Odessa Philharmonic. Michael is on leave this semester, and Hobey is covering for him with the PU orchestra for the December concert. This time we would bring some of our favorite American music, Barber Knoxville, and Copland Appalachian Spring, to share with our Ukrainian friends. Continue reading
Sunday, October 16, 2011
This was my 17th year as the rent-a-cantor for Congregation Emanu-El in Wichita Kansas. I love going there, and it feels like a home coming at this point. Even though I only see folks for several days a year, many of them are good friends and feel like family. Continue reading
After attending my Uncle Mal’s funeral in Boston, we headed out to the Cape to visit two students of ours who were working at the College Light Opera Company. We saw Brad sing the Pirate King and Andrea conduct the matinee of Pirates of Penzance. They both did a wonderful job and the show was great. It was nice to see B. Haslum again and discover that not much has changed in all the years since I was in the company in 1978 and 1979. Everyone in the company was bright eyed and bushy tailed, attractive and energetic college performers. We loved spending two days in Falmouth. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we had to get home to our old lady beagle, Thisbe.