The studio is celebrating the one year mark, as of this past March! Granted, I've been teaching lessons part-time since college, and teaching off and on over the past five years since my husband and I moved to Waukee, but I can officially say that this is my first year of full-time teaching. I was not planning on full-time teaching, well, to be honest, ever. The goal was to teach lessons in college in order to pay my own way through school. Post-graduation, I would get the "d

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” - Bach Most of my blog posts have centered around classical music, and how classical music makes students better musicians, and overall, better people in the long run. However, I haven't spoken much about the role of sacred music, especially as we are encountering the holiest of weeks for the Christian church: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then b

Tomorrow, my parents are handing the keys of our childhood home over to a new owner. After 20 years of calling "2210" both my home and my home away from home after I got married, we decided it was only right and good to give this house the fondest of farewells possible. So a couple of weeks ago we were able to coordinate all the siblings to come for the weekend (minus one sister who is out of the country) to enjoy a pizza party, a toast, and one final walk through of the hous

Since last week's focus was placing The Aeneid Series' video recordings on YouTube, I wanted this week's focus to be the great still shots that were taken over the weekend. Enjoy! Introduced as The Aeneid Avengers, here is the triumvirate: Here are a couple of still shots of the performance in the Sun Ballroom, courtesy of Prof. Irby: Happy Post-Performance Shots: We decided to take a few pics afterwards at the St. Olaf Chapel: And of course, our reenactment of our college p