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Story by Jim Bishop The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and Eastern Mennonite University begins this fall. The city school system is funding a strings instruction program through EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, part of the university’s music department. It will begin…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen You must have seen the surprisingly good movie “The Bridges of Madison County” back in 1995, the one based on the surprisingly sappy novel by Robert James Waller. Well, I’ve just seen the Young Persons version of the same simple tale, ablaze with unrequited love and melancholy…
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Column by Jim Bishop “Here we are . . . after all these years …” Ann Cochran warbles in her musical ode to a couple who’ve stuck together through thick and thin.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, He’s the handsomest sweetie That you’ll ever see … ” Often, upon encountering Lee Eshleman, I would bop up to him singing lines from the Bobbettes’ 1957 musical ditty, “Mr. Lee.” For a…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen A couple of important religious holidays are popping up next week, so naturally the Hollywood floodgates will open and your TV will be inundated with spiritual films galore. Dozens of films have been made about the Jews’ exodus from Egypt, and just as many about the crucifixion…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “My love is higher than a mission bell, Deeper than a wishing well, Stronger than a magic spell My love, for you . . .” – Donnie Brooks Don McLean’s 1971 anthem, “American Pie,” refers to Feb. 3, 1959 as “The Day the Music Died,” when young pop artists…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Back in the olden days, they just didn’t make teachers that looked like Cate Blanchett. For instance, my own third-grade teacher, Mrs. Odel, cruised up and down the aisles like a great grey battleship wrapped in a blue-and-white polka dot dress. Bad kids got whacked with a…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Alas, the Golden Age of Musicals is long gone. Might as well toss in the Silver Age of Musicals and the Bronze Age of Musicals as well. And the latest big, splashy Broadway musical to be brought to the screen, “Dreamgirls,” is just more proof that if…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I was feeling a little red-state the other day. How I could tell: I found myself watching NASCAR. “Come on, Elliot. Don’t let him jostle you like that?” I was screaming at the TV. For no apparent reason. And then it hit me.
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] I recently started fooling around with a keyboard. I say “fooling around” because it would not be fair to say that I’m playing music, or anything that even vaguely recalls music, except when I deftly push the demo button and crank out selections from “Ave Maria”…
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