good morning!
I believe it was Newark. This choir toured the U.S. and performed over 100 times all across the country. Not bad for a very small college of 2000 students. An elite academic school.
The Dean told me that they get 15,000 applications every year and they select only 500 incoming freshmen.
My daughter was one of them and was an Honors student with a great scholarship. She had to mainatain a 3.4 gpa min. in order to keep it and she was in the Honors dorm, Meyers Hall, which was a converted Civil War Hospital in Springfield, Ohio
Excellent education where the student to faculty ratio was extremely low.
I have a cs of her singing at a performance she gave her Junior year after ten years of voice lessons, continuing through college.
That was a long time ago but the memories are still vivid and fresh. I can hear her voice in my memory. She nailed a High G in an aria one night full force without a crack.
This is why I feel much empathy and comaraderie with De and his son Joey, another highly talented musical young person.
I cannot sing worth a hoot. But I canplay all wood wind instruments, have already composed lots of music and orchestrated the marching band performances of a 150 person marching band in high school while I was in high school. Music runs in my family.
My bother is a bonafide concert pianist. He canplay anything he hears without music and it is magical to listen to him on the piano. A full Grand made by Steinway.
I enjoyed the performance of the piece Joey wrote but do not like the minor key transitions from the string musicians. Rather stark to my ears. I do not know if that was the musicians taking liberty or what but I believe it could have been less "harsh" sounding transitioning down.
I love to listen to John Tesh music. He is really clever with using simple repetitive triplets and combining that piano with other instruments in a way that is easy on the listener.
Manheim Steamroller Christmas music is like that also. My favorite stuff to listen to at his time of year.
The one thing my daughter brought dad back from Ground Zero was a HAT which has the NYPD on it, and signed my Mayor Guliani.
Time for me to get my wife and to head to store before the mad crowds and finish buying some things we did not get to prep for Christmas day with the family...
Catch you all later.
Decomp: My best to you and to your talented Son Joey! I know you have to be very proud of him. You should be.. Encourage him and let him run!
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