April 24, 2011
Tags: Chinook, choir rehearsal, church choir, Min Pin, Mozart, Resucitό
I’ve been waiting for the traffic on my last blog to slow down before I posted another. I don’t know if it delivered all that it promised, but “Sex and Betrayal at the OK Chorale” sure got a lot of hits. (www.elenalouiserichmond.com/2011/04/851/) If that’s what it takes—a racy title—I was toying with the idea of Read the Rest…
April 14, 2011
Tags: All Around My Hat, Matona Lovely Maiden, Maxine Manning, Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Sandi Meggert, Steeleye Span
I’ve got this lovely piece of music in front of me and I am musing about loss of innocence in a post Thomas/Hill world. It’s called “Matona, Lovely Maiden,” and I first heard it on a long playing LP of the Obernkirchen Children’s Choir. I was probably eight years old. On the album cover was Read the Rest…
March 25, 2011
Tags: Lakem Duckem, Walla Walla, Whitman College
A few years ago I spent two inert hours sitting at the duck pond on the Whitman College campus in Walla Walla. It was 109 degrees which is why I was inert. The two hours produced a poem. The poem was printed in this quarter’s Whitman College alumni magazine. Lakem Duckem gets its name from Read the Rest…
March 4, 2011
Tags: Della Street, Fred Steiner, Gary Larson, Hamilton Burger, Lt Tragg, Paul Drake, Perry Mason
Perry Mason. It was the Law and Order of its day. It ran from 1957 to 1966 with a dramatic theme song by Fred Steiner. It’s a world of pre-furnished apartments and twin beds. Everyone has a little drinks cart or bar in their front room. Everyone drinks martinis or highballs. Men and women meet Read the Rest…
February 23, 2011
Tags: Facebook, John the Baptist, The Artist's Way
My friend Jenni, a student who single-handedly improved my sight-reading abilities by 75% by showing up with new music every week, recently accomplished something admirable: She went without words for a week. Part of an Artist’s Way class, she called it her Reading Deprivation week. She went without books, television and computer, explaining in part Read the Rest…