Quotes
"If music be the food of love, play on." ~William Shakespeare
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." ~William Congreve
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo
Glenn Miller
"If music be the food of love, play on." ~William Shakespeare
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." ~William Congreve
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo
Glenn Miller
Anton Glen (later changed to Glenn) Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa, on March 1, 1904. His family moved several times to several states in his youth, settling in Fort Morgan, Colorado in 1918, Miller played in the school band and turned professional after graduating in 1921.
After two years he quit the orchestra to attend college. He spent one year at the University of Colorado. The lure of a career in music was too great. He went to Los Angeles and New York playing in bands and working as an arranger. The last was with the Tommy Dorsey organization.
In 1935 he started his own band. It took about four years of struggling to become established and to find the right personnel and sound. His first hit was Wishing which hardly anyone is familiar with these days. His second 1939 hit was Moonlight Serenade which has become a standard. A series of hits followed: Tuxedo Junction, String of Pearls, In the Mood, and Pennsylvania 6-5000. Miller's band was one of the most popular bands of the big band era,
A brilliant career was interrupted by World War II. Miller felt it was his patriotic duty to enlist. The Army Air Force put him in Army Specialists Corps with the rank of captain. For the next year and a half, besides arranging music, Glenn created and directed his own 50-member band. Captain Miller’s mission was morale building,
Still wanting to do more, Glenn arranged for overseas duty for the band. Finally, on December 15, 1944, Glenn boarded an aircraft to travel to Paris, France where he was to make arrangements for a Christmas broadcast. Tragically, the plane never reached France and was never found.
The ballroom at University of Colorado Memorial Center is named the Glenn Miller Ballroom.
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Shiffrin on the left.
Slovakia's Petra Vlhova defeated Overall Champion Mikaela Shiffrin's of Vail Colorado's bid for victory in the final slalom race of the World Cup season on Saturday.
In the second run Shiffrin was in the lead with only two more skiers to go. Unfortunately, one of those was Vihova who won by 0.24 seconds. Shiffrin had already cinched the Overall title earlier in the week at Squaw Valley. She wanted to go out strong, but was second in the last race of the season.
Riddles
1. What has a tail, no legs, has a head and is brown?
2. How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?
3. Sam walked for thirty minutes in the pouring rain without getting a single hair on his head wet. He didn't have a hat or an umbrella and his coat had no hood. How did he do that?
Answers below
In Case That You Missed It
The Quiet Man the ultimate Irish movie was shown again, as it always is, on March 17th. The lovable Catholic Priest, Father Peter Lonergan was played by Ward Bond, a graduate of Denver's East High School.
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Answers to the Riddles
1, A penny
2. Add a letter G, it is Gone
3. Sam is bald