I have been thinking, lately, about music and how each note relies on the other. Even the first simple songs we teach our babies -- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, for instance -- require at least six notes, some whole, some half, with several quarters and eighths as well. Add a couple of chords and, depending [...]
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The Magic Strings of Helen Flannigan Spalding
In a quiet corner of a busy nursing home, a young girl pulls a bow across a century old instrument and earnestly offers the twin gifts of music and memories. Her audience, an 87-year old birthday boy, grins widely and follows the notes back to a bustling house on Broad Street in Menasha where the [...]
Every day is perfect if you let it be one
Until I saw a small boy with "J-Council" carved into his haircut, I thought I had become the biggest J-Council fan. Turns out, there are plenty of us. We gathered Sunday at Timber Rattler Stadium for "Keep it Wisconsin", featuring Cory Chisel, J-Council, Adriel Denea and the Bodeans. The weather, theme, music, talent and crowd [...]
Choose Your Own Festival Favorite (a post by Molly)
You decide to go to a music festival in downtown Appleton. There are a lot of different artists, but you’ve only heard of a few of them. As you approach College Avenue you hear the sounds of many voices, guitars, basses, and drums all mingle together in a communal cacophony, but one sound cuts through [...]
Heart and soul in the City of Love
Katherine's magic spreadsheet took us all over Paris, through parks bustling with happy children and uninhibited lovers, into cool bookstores and sweet patisseries, across flooded rivers and ancient cobblestone, to five-star restaurants and delicious street vendors. But, the best gift her research brought us, unwrapped itself in Le Baiser Salé, a Parisian jazz club. Cynthia [...]