If you’ve read much of my stuff you know that my serious moments are few and far between. This is one of them. I know it’s long but I really felt like I needed to type it as the 2016 campaign (finally) winds down. Mrs. Blogmeister would be the first to tell you that most […]
With apologies to our own dear Rita, why is the psychiatrist or psychologist’s answer to pretty much anything, “And how does that make you feel?” If it made the patient feel good there’s an excellent chance he or she wouldn’t be talking to the shrink, right? (An aside, where did the whole “shrink” thing come […]
I’ll apologize in advance for this and warn you not to read on if you’re allergic to groaning. The Blogmeister’s mom and long list of friends are big time into forwarding emails around the planet (she’s old school…still has an AOL account) and when something is particularly horrific she assaults her only son with it. […]
There’s a Hawaiian music channel on Time Warner Cable’s menu (channel 800 if you didn’t know) and there’s always a lot of Iz. I was puttering in the kitchen yesterday when his version of “Over the Rainbow” came on. Yeah, he got the words wrong and tinkered with the melody a bit but’s it’s still […]
We all recognize the eerie John Williams two-note theme that grows into a serious bit of panic. When “Jaws” came out in 1975 I went to see it with my mother (safety tip: don’t go to scary movies with your mother unless you want to lose an arm…when the guy’s head rolled out of the sunken boat […]
Whether this is your first year singing with the Windward Choral Society or you’ve been around for all nine, we’re all at that magical crossroads that appears after a few rehearsals. Now that we’ve sung everything a little and some things a few times there are two thoughts that climb up the back of the […]
At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors there was a conversation about the pile(s) of sheet music accumulated over the last nine years. Quite a few file cabinets had been donated as things grew but they were overflowing and the Windward Choral Society’s storage unit was starting to look like an episode of “Hoarders”. There […]
Okay, this is really, really cool. I’m not a big fan of lazy bloggging with just a link but I’m happy to make an exception for truly awesome stuff. This certainly qualifies. From the arranger: “This unique video, features my first of 2 arrangements for solo lyre, of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6″, […]
WCS is Looking for a Few Good Men! WCS has limited openings in the tenor and bass section. Rehearsals take place on Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM at Holman Hall at Kailua United Methodist Church. Are you a tenor or bass? Interested in singing in WCS? Call 808.254.5717 or Email: windwardchoralsociety@gmail.com. *********************************** WHO: The 100-voice Windward Choral Society; Susan McCreary Duprey, […]
I used to do a lot of travelling (35,000 frequent flier miles one year*) teaching classes on a new software technology. Yeah I’m a nerd but at least I got to see a lot of the world on someone else’s dime. One of the offices where the students gathered was in Vélizy-Villacoublay, a suburb of Paris, […]