Alfred Anderson
Alfred Anderson
eerie remember silence sound
I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.
bullets cracking distant fire german heard months trenches whining
All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.
adapt combined continued cost fine found full lights mounting production proved support
Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued to do fine productions, and I've found it even more challenging because we have to adapt productions to the recital stage, and yet we're doing full productions with sets, lights and everything.
opera three vision
All three of us had a vision for an exceptional opera program.
although brought concert cost elementary full level orchestra production program schools share society students thomas tour
We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.