Visiting a friend, I see a framed letter on his wall—not an unusual thing, for there are several framed letters there; but this letter is handwritten, whereas the others are typed, some on renowned […]
Archives: September, 2014
My grandfather was the kind of man who could light up a room and make you feel like a million bucks. But in his otherwise gracious mind there was an inexplicable snarl. […]
by Tom Noyes I suspect one of the reasons I became a fiction writer was because I couldn’t sing. Of course, it’s not only singing. There are many things I can’t do. Even […]
Dan Gillespie ’08 on fiddle with his band, Can I Get an Amen.
Listen to Houston Hodges: “This I Believe” Honest. Revealing. Spontaneous. Surprising. Even brave. All ways to describe the works that students produced in Audio Rhetoric and Creative Writing. Yet hardly a […]
The whole room is moving, and not because of the Guinness I drank. Can I Get an Amen is the closing act of Old Lazarus’ Harp, “a music collective of four rising forces […]
Click here to play Scarlet Hues by Dick Durham ’64, written in the Pioneer Chapel during his student days. Photo by Kim Johnson
2011 should have been a breakthrough year for Dan Couch ’89. In March… …his song “Mary Was the Marrying Kind,” co-written with Scott Stepakoff and Kip Moore and performed by Moore, hit […]
When Dick Durham played Beethoven’s “Pathetique” for his senior recital in the Chapel in 1964, Professor of Chemistry Paul McKinney ’52 turned the music pages for him. “And if not for Paul McKinney, […]
Read more about Ben Kitterman on the road in Richard Paige’s commentary, “Leader of the Band.”
by Richard Paige Following a backstage video interview of bandleader Ben Kitterman ’06 before Aaron Lewis’s concert in Indianapolis’s Old National Centre, WM asked Associate Director Richard Paige for his first impressions of the tour […]
