I went to the 100th anniversary of the Landers and the 75th anniverary of The Springfield Little Theater. There was 100 years of entertainment and 100 years of stars. Kim Crosby was in Into The Woods on Broadway. Lucas Grabeel was in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. Beth Doman did "Got To Have a Gimmick" from gypsy. She played the horn and at the end of her solo, she went to the center of the stage and she bent down. She put the horn between her legs and tried to blow the horn, but what she blew out was a "tooty." And there was a band for music from Stars and Stripes and The Music Man. The history from the theater: First was vaudeville. Then Red Foley played shows there. And I was on that stage for seven years.
The Springfield Symphony had its 75th anniversary concert on September 19. The three maestros from past years conducted. The current conductor is Ron Spigelman, and the past conductors are Apo Hsu and Charles Bontrager. They conducted Carlyle Sharpe's An American Postcard, Dimitri Shostakovich Festival Overture, Hector Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Peter Illich Tschaikovsky Variations on A Rococo and Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 5. They had cake
