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  • Text: ...Miss Maurits: Oh, yes. My, my father played the violin and my mother sang. So we were a musical family. Hardly a day went by that we didn’t have some music. And the of course, we had records and they came out and, we were very much interested in music. And we had a great...
Maurits, Evangeline

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  • Text: However, the whole experience was amazing and I saw many types of music and quite a few famous musicians over the three days. It’s a sunny day so time to get up and go out for a drive and a walk. Till tomorrow then - stay well and stay safe.
Day 10

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  • Text: ...omforting to know that some things are still the same. On a typical week day these rooms are full of people, conversation, music and proper oral hygiene instruction. Now, there is only one occupied room at a time. The music and instruction remain the same, but the topic of conver...
Behind the Scenes During Covid-19

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  • Text: After reading her obituary, I realized what an integral part of the Grand Rapids music/theater scene she was. She would walk past our house most weekday afternoons on her way to the little house 4 doors down from us that she used as her music studio.
Day 85

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  • Text: ...aceTime, Craig started playing ‘Girl From Ipanema’ on the piano and Oliver started rocking back and forth in time to the music. Grandad (Craig) is extremely excited and envisions a wonderful music career ahead of Oliver. Hmmm. Another day we drove from Brandon to Wells-next-the...
Day 103

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  • Text: ... the teacher uses a laser pointer to maintain distance. Everyone wears a mask, and the chirping of cardinals adds background music. A large chalk-drawn music staff adorns the driveway for students to explore music notation. The argument over schools opening continues. A sc...
Day 144

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  • Text: ...And the same goes for the Vatican Museums in Rome, the Louvre in Paris and so on. I can also watch whole Broadway Musicals at home as well as enjoy musicians like Yo Yo Ma play wonderful music under the banner ‘Songs of Comfort’. The list goes on and on. In Canberra Australia...
Day 32 (but also Easter Sunday)

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  • Text: ...It was not like any puppet show I had seen before and the story was told in Chinese with traditional musical accompaniment. This show tells the famous story of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang who made an epic journey to India and back. I was lucky to be sitting right next to an Ancient Hist...
Day 57

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  • Text: ...It’s so hard to choose! Watching Meryl Streep sing because its never too early to enjoy good musicals. Every morning in Sydney, Zoe FaceTimes us as she is feeding him breakfast. He does love to eat and there’s always that little time lag before the food hits his tummy and his brain t...
Day 69

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  • Text: ...After Times will be different - and we may all live waiting for the next big thing to come along. My neighbors daughter is a music major at a Michigan university. In a truly inventive style, she plays her flute in music class with a hole in her mask for breathing through into her f...
Day 394

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  • Description: She was involved with the Urban League, Community Concerts Organization, and Baxter Community Center. She was Vice-President of the Civic Theatre, and established music scholarships to the Interlochen Arts Academy. Mary Baloyan died on January 21, 1984.
  • Text: ...nto Civic Theatre work where I went on a board, worked in that area for twenty years, and became vice-president. Through our music lessons we became interested in concerts and help local concert campaigns. Also I became interested, after many years later, after mother’s death, in establis...
Baloyan, Mary

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  • Text: Friends organised online music events. We held online trivia nights. We set up weekly ‘walk and talks’ where we’d all get on the phone, pour ourselves a drink, and wander the streets in our suburbs having a silly old time together.
Day 198