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Monthly Archive: November 2006

Our next concert

The Cantabile Singers present ‘Twas the Season, featuring Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest for chorus, marimba, guitar and harp. The concert will be Friday, December 1st, at the Broomfield Auditorium (a really beautiful acoustic space), and…
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The Good Old Days

In choir, we are rehearsing The Night Before Christmas: He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle… After practicing the above, the guy next to me turned to the guy next to him and said, “Those were…
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Exercising the franchise

Just a couple of random items from my voting experience: Paper or plastic? I have been paying very little attention to the controversy over electronic voting. In Virginia, you went into a curtained booth and toggled little switches on a…
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Curiosity versus discretion

I went to my 25th college reunion last week (yes, Virginia, I’m old). I’ve hardly kept in touch with anyone, so as far as I know, only two other people at the reunion even knew that I now use a…
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You’re too young to burn

We’ve had season tickets to the Takacs Quartet for a number of years. These sold-out concerts are in a 500 seat theatre at CU, and somebody pretty much has to die in order for someone else to get tickets. Every…
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