By Lin Rice   COLUMBUS, OH — For the UAHS students about to perform in this year’s musical, as well as the group of alumni coordinating them behind the scenes, the old axiom still applies: The show must go on. With next month’s production of “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” a number of […]

By Stephen Best   PERTH, AUSTRALIA — For the past few years he has organised the popular New Year’s Eve Vienna Pops at the Perth Concert Hall, John Christmass has declared the next one would be his last. But approaching 88, the Mt Nasura choral master and educator is still going strong, driven by his love […]

KANSAS CITY, MO — Former Scottsbluff High Choral Director Dr. Eph Ehly and his wife Jan narrowly escaped from their burning home in Shawnee, Kansas over the weekend. The massive fire fanned by high winds left nothing but a few exterior walls of the Ehly home and smoldering ash. Jan first spotted the flames around […]

PITTSBURG, KS — For Virginia Darling and Susan Laushman, music education isn’t their job. It’s their passion. It’s who they are. For their devotion to their craft and their love of the art, both USD 250 music educators were named this year’s Outstanding Music Educator for the Kansas Music Educators Association Southeast District. Darling was honored […]

By James McCarthy   CARDIFF, WALES — HE had a kidney transplant that saved his life more than three decades ago – but spent years thinking it had come from the victim of a plane crash. But after finding out it came from a 12-year-old boy who died tragically in a bike accident, Paul Silcox has […]