Monthly Archives: June 2017

Art and Jazz Fest

Posted on June 30, 2017 by marchsparrows

JazzFest Music Schedule Saturday, July 1 10-11:30  Falling Rock Mix 12-2 justin Carpenter academy / jazz ensemble 17 piece 1940’s Big Band 2:30-3:30 Paranoid Image with Sara Geller / Jazz 330-430 Scifidelic Eclectic Jazz 6-9:00 Hindsite / Classic 80’s Rock … Continue reading →

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Our Town

Posted on June 30, 2017 by marchsparrows

People arrived in town today, who hadn’t quite seen our town the way it is now. Imagine owning a natural product’s store and finding a 50-foot dinosaur in your front display window named Fitch. Or finding the newspaper you helped … Continue reading →

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“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen

Posted on June 28, 2017 by marchsparrows

[Intro] Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy Because I’m easy … Continue reading →

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What is Opera, anyway?

Posted on June 28, 2017 by marchsparrows

Performance practice, meaning anything that affects the execution and presentation of a work — voices, instruments, pitch, venue, acting, and even what is being performed — is an issue deeply connected to the definition of opera. If modern productions don’t … Continue reading →

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What is Opera? Words and Music and Meaning

Posted on June 28, 2017 by marchsparrows

If we speak of operatic strategies, that is, how composers and librettists fit words to music, (or the other way around), in order to tell a story, must we always presume that the words have the last words, or does … Continue reading →

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Julie Andrews “Home: A Memoir of My Early Years”

Posted on June 27, 2017 by marchsparrows

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was “home.” My father was driving his quiet secondhand Austin 7; my mother was in the passenger seat beside him holding me on her lap. As we … Continue reading →

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Bookmarks, Bindings and Blue Ink

Posted on June 26, 2017 by marchsparrows

This post was originally written in July of 2011. I’ll add that the handwriting I was finding in the margins of my books had not been there before. I was opening books from my bookshelf I had had for years … Continue reading →

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Sonnet

Posted on June 23, 2017 by marchsparrows

      (for Deborah Kerr) What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast, Steel’d was that soul that I watch with such care — From a father she was seized, a child so loved. Such, such my case. And now … Continue reading →

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Nutritional Assessment

Posted on June 21, 2017 by marchsparrows

I can eat only one bite of watermelon right now. I can also eat a banana. I haven’t been able to eat fruit in years. When I worked at a newspaper and taught school, I ate five and six pieces … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day Church Service

Posted on June 20, 2017 by marchsparrows

This Sunday was Father’s Day. The sermon was about community service. Who in your community has made contact with you recently? What are you to them? What are they to the surrounding world in which they live? A face comes … Continue reading →

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