Monday, February 5: Memorial Service Postponed

The Loss Committee is sad to announce the Memorial Service scheduled for Monday, February 5, is postponed due to extenuating circumstances. A new date will be scheduled in March with the date announced in Spotlight and on Bulletin Boards.

Wednesday, February 7: Low Vision Help Committee

Music to Their Ears?

Actual Quotes from Grade School Essays on Classical Music

A Virtuoso is a musician with real high morals

Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.

Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.

J.S. Bach died from 1750 to the present.

Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large.

Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this.

Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard of.

Aaron Copland is one of our most famous contemporary composers. It is unusal to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.

An opera is a song of bigly size.

In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda who is the one he really loves. Pretty soon Silvio gets stabbed also and they all live happily ever after.

Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.

I know what a sextet is, but I'd rather not say.

Caruso was at first an Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. And so he came to America.

Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.

Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

My favorite composer is Opus.

A harp is a nude piano.

My very best liked piece is the Bronze Lullaby.

Contributed by Cathie Campbell