Music / Picard

Every year at this time I'm reminded how important music is to education.

I was in my school orchestra in Fort Atkinson.  First Chair cello, not because I was good but because I was better then the other younger classmates.  We were the first class to have an orchestra in Fort Atkinson.  I went on the fame and fortune as 12th chair cello in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony  . . . for a while.

HOWEVER - in my tiny little class we now have 2 Grammy nominations and one Grammy winner when Scott Kluge penned the score for Martin Scorsese's movie Silence.  My other buddy Mike Marquart played briefly with Flock of Seagulls and is now President of Windmark Recording and is married to Winifred Johnson-Marquart who is the president of the Johnson Family Foundation (and worth $4.2 Billion).   Mikes daughter is also a performer and has recorded with Coldplay, Jeezy, J. Cole, YG, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar.  YIKES!   little guy does good. 

Mike was the drummer for Wonderhorse our rock band. We were the only "touring" band that had two timpani (he had a key and we would sneak them out of the band room on weekends :0 

Add to that two other orchestra classmates are conductors. One as the head of the Green Bay Symphony and the other I believe is the head of the Quad City Orchestra AND we have a professor that teaches music in Japan.  All from one tiny orchestra.

Music is so important in school as an escape for the daily rigors of being a kid and just a great way to have balance in your life.  I hope the Columbus Schools continue to have music in their schools.  I have heard other schools dropping music and art from classes because of funding. 

BTW - The Grammy's were fantastic last night!

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PICARD - OMG what a great great show - If you plan on watching Picard (highly recommended) there are 10 episodes on Next Generation you should watch first to just to jog your memory, it;s been 27 years you know.

S2E9
S2E16
S3E16
S3E26
S4E1 and E2
S5E25
S6E15
S7E25 and E26

This will fill in some details that relate to Picard - For instance I had forgotten Data created a daughter and they reacquaint you with The Borg.

DJ was not really familiar with Next Generation or Sir Patrick Stewert and is now obsessed with Next Generation.  we watched 6 of those episodes those weekend.  SO GOOD!

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And if you have never watched Survivor this is the season to see what it's all about.  Season #40  has 20 winners from the past. All have won at least $1 million. Two winners have married each other and have kids and one is the only woman (or man) to ever win twice.  These guys are the best of the best. No fake drama, just pure game play to outwit, outlast and outplay the other winners. 

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I'm having a LOT of people look at images on Fine Art america . . .FROM CHINA!   Over 200 last week. Whats up with that.

Meanwhile look at what is up at Kestrel Ridge. They took down the weird Dogs hunting painting and put up yours truly the Columbus Train Station. 

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And this just had DJ and I in stitches  . . . . although it was late Saturday night.  This handsome dude TRIED to lure woman.  Not successful for some reason.