Posts Tagged ‘fun’
2012 Winter Pledge Drive
What a great pledge drive! I am always touched and amazed at how you, the listener, steps up and stands for what you care about. It’s truly during the pledge drives when I am reminded that we do something that matters to a great many people. From the volunteers who spend their precious time taking […]
The Gaming Table
Restoration comedy—the stuff of sexual innuendo and other extravagances following the reopening of the London theatres by Charles II—is most famously represented by writers like John Dryden and William Congreve. (I once played the silly, awkward, country girl, Miss Prue, in Congreve’s Love for Love when I was a drama student – imagine that!) But, […]
Pop socks
If you think that Mark has sounded blue or Dyana has sounded green the past couple of days, it’s not because they are, respectively, sad or sick, it’s that all the WBJC announcers now have individualized multicolored pop socks. (For the uninitiated, a pop sock is the cover that goes over a microphone to minimize […]
I get paid to play dress-up. Oh, yeah, and sing.
When I was a kid,”dress-up” was undoubtedly my favorite playtime activity. I had a huge stash of my mom’s old costume jewelry & purchased more of the stuff (plus various used bridesmaid’s dresses) at garage sales, so my friends & I could spend hours pretending to be royalty or characters from our favorite TV shows. […]
I have a tambourine…
& I’m not afraid to use it. Well, maybe a little bit. It is commonly said that opera singers can’t act, & sometimes with good reason, but we are expected to give it our best shot. These days, no matter how good the voices onstage are, audiences have come to expect a bit of theater […]
Fall Fundraiser success!
Our thanks to all of you who helped make our Fall pledge-drive a resounding success! The numbers are in: Our overall goal for the three days was $118k and we made $125k! We added 358 NEW members to the family and just over 1,000 of you helped us take care of business so we could […]
“Your voice is not an instrument, it is a…
weapon!” So says James Harp, Artistic Director & Chorus Master at Lyric Opera Baltimore. Of course, the human voice is also capricious, delicate, & vulnerable to colds, allergies, & all manner of other irritants. Mine is the main reason I get paychecks, so I try to take good care of it. Those of us who […]
