Month: October 2006

After getting yet another letter from the Awards Verification Center in Arlington (a front for Silverleaf Resorts), I was toying with the idea of calling them up to try to claim the ‘prize’ and blogging about the whole process. But it has already been done. But I don’t feel bad for this particular organization. Further googling turned up the grand-prize winner in guys dealing with scum like this:

Put an End to Telemarketing

He has turned his battle against the autodiallers into cold, hard cash!

Houston’s professional consort of singers, CANTARE Houston, under the direction of founder/director Kevin Raymond Riehle, opens its fourth season, RESONANCE, with the following concerts:

Sunday, October 15, 7:30 First Presbyterian Church, Houston
Tuesday,October 17, 7:30 The Centrum, Cypress Creek Christian Church, Spring

Repertoire centers on text celebrating the power of music and includes:

J.S. Bach: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225
Billings: Modern Musick
Tomkins: Music Divine
Lasso: Musica est Dei donum optimi
Hassler: Ihr Musici frisch auf
Elgar: There is sweet music
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music (featuring Houston Symphony concertmaster Angela Fuller, violin)
Walton: Where does the uttered music go
Parker: Sing, Sing
Larsen: Invitation to Music
Dello Joio: For St. Cecilia (with Ambient Arts Brass)

Tickets available online www.cantarehoustonsingers.org or at the door.