Tag: music
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Music and the Arts (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 14)
What are your career plans? Have you secured an internship? What’s the pay scale for graduates in that major? All important questions, but just as important are things like music, the arts, thinking critically, and expanding your horizons by studying subjects unrelated to your chosen vocation. I was reminded of these broader concerns when I…
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An Open Letter to our Local School District
Dear Superintendent Gronseth and ISD 709 School Board members: The Duluth News Tribune article “Denfeld Student Sings to Protest Dropping of Spanish Class” initially prompted my drafting of this open letter. I suspect that many voters supporting the levy referendum last November may have voted differently if they had known cuts in critical programming…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
The annual high school holiday concert, featuring every single musical ensemble in the school, is a wonderful reflection of community. Community is found in the audience — parents and grandparents, neighbors and friends. More importantly, an incredible community is found on stage — not only are these students musicians, but they are found in athletics,…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
The French horn is an instrument with curves! What rich sound can be teased from those long, winding tubes of brass — and oh, how the sound does carry above the rest of the symphony if a note is missed! Acknowledgements: Appreciation and thanks go to my son’s French horn which was the patient…
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Vivaldi and La Sainte-Chapelle: A Transcendental Travel Experience
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley Music has always held a special place in my heart, filling me with emotion and triggering memories like nothing else can do. Perhaps that is why one of my favorite experiences from our trip to Paris was attending a chamber music concert of the…
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