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FLORIDA ORCHESTRA DOES FRANK SINATRA

The Florida Orchestra (FloridaOrchestra.org) has a special “Pops” series, and this past weekend, they did “The One and Only Frank Sinatra”, which, of course, was wonderful. Jeff Tyzik was the guest conductor, who has a long history of big band stuff and he did a tribute to Tommy Dorsey, with Janes Pugh on trombone, and […]

80 AND JUST BAT MITZVAH’D

A good friend of mine, a folk dancer (and teacher) recently turned 80 years old! Instead of a big party, she chose to learn to “sing” the Torah portion. The word for this is cantillation, or “trope”. One chants according to little marks by the words. It’s quite a feat, and Ann did it so […]

GREEK FESTIVAL

Continuing with festivals, last Friday our gang attended the local Greek Festival at the Greek Church on Swann. We go every year and usually are never disappointed. This year however, they had the live music (great band) outside in the tent, instead of the main hall. It was cold, but we danced out there anyway, […]

PINK ROSE TEA

2 years in a row now I’ve been a guest of Bobbi’s at the Tampa Woman’s Club’s Pink Rose Tea, which is a marvelously old fashioned – and yet teas are coming back- put on expressly to raise money for cancer. Each year they pick a different form, last year Breast, this year, the Suncoast […]

FUN FALL FLING

I love it when I get to use 3 F’s – I think the word is alliteration. So! Melbourne (Brevard International Dancers) sponsored yet another very successful Fall Fling on October 29, hosting around 40 of us. We started at 11:00 a.m,, stopped for a delicious lunch, made by all of us […]

MUSICAL WEEKEND

Life is good! The 3rd of July found me at a party across the street from my daughter, with great food and good conversation with 2 guys who had traveled as much as me, and comparisons flew! We had to leave tho so Mick could go to work, so I went on to play music […]

FOLK DANCING IN FROSTPROOF

May 22, 2010. Yes, there’s a city (if you can call it that) called Frostproof in Florida. And my friends Caroline and Gary live there. They have built a dance studio on their second floor and often have little gatherings. Although I had to miss bookclub, yoga and a performance by Dylan, Andy and I […]

BYE BYE BIRDIE

March19, 2010. Lynn and I went to the Largo Cultural Center to see the Eight O’clock Theatre’s (www.eightoclocktheatre.com) version of Bye Bye Birdie and we weren’t disappointed. The choreography was excellent, most of the voices were good. One of my favorite songs (that I use when I write shows) Got a Lot of Livin’ To […]

JUDY GARLAND BEYOND THE RAINBOW

(May 7, 2011) Because our Greater Seder group did The Wizard of Schnozz, Lynn and I (both Judy Garland fans) went to a local production by the Salerno Theatare Company called “Judy Garland Beyond the Rainbow – a tribute concert event (Salernotheatre.com). 3 gals and a guy paid tribute, some JG songs, some just of […]

FLORIDA ORCHESTRA – WICKED DIVAS ON BROADWAY

(November 28 2010) Sounds good? IT WAS! Two gals, Erin Mackey and Julia Murney sang marvelous songs from all my favorite musicals, which couldn’t have been better. The orchestra introduced the evening with the Overture to Gypsy and parts of Carmen. I have never been disappointed by the Florida Orchestra. Too bad they aren’t better […]