VocalEase Concert
I discovered jazz standards only in mid-life, but have been hooked on them ever since. A colleague of mine at the University of Mississippi introduced me to them in the early 1990s and today, if you walk into my library at home, there’s a good chance you will hear Miles Davis, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, or Michael Feinstein. So, you can imagine my pleasure at discovering that Austin Peay has the VocalEase ensemble. Last Friday night, my wife and daughter and I enjoyed the ensemble’s spring concert, which included one of my favorite songs, “Here’s that Rainy Day.” Our students, directed by Valerie Oyen-Larsen, put on a fine performance. I still can’t get over living two-minutes away from a fabulous concert hall, filled virtually every week with the performances of students, faculty, or visiting musicians.
