Tonight we were treated to a concert from the legendary Chuck Wagon Gang. Next year they'll be celebrating their 75th anniversary. The Chucks got their start singing on the radio for the Bewley Mills Flour Company and were strictly a radio quartet for many years--very few public appearances until much later. Over the past 75 years, they've sold close to 40 million albums...amazing!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 3, 2010
Well, we're officially half-way through the first week. My theory class has been immersed (they might say 'drowned') in interval identification and today we started chord identification (major, minor, diminished, augmented) and how those chords are structured. We also do a lot of sight-singing, melodic dictation (I play a melody and they write it down) and other things like that.
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I am so pleased to have found this blog. I have a dear friend who is a first year student there at this years singing school. Frank Hudson. Frank is in his fifties and went with great intrepidation as he has no formal music training and knew he would be one of the older students, and feared that he would stand out as the class dummy. Just tell him that Tony and Sandra Crandell (fans of your blog) are praying that this year's experience will be a hilite and thrill of his life.
Tony & Sandra, Thanks so much for reading the blog and for your comments. Frank is not in my class, but I will try and find out whose class he's in and give him the message.
Have a great day!
Shawn
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