Witz Bulletin Board

Our Faculty ! Click to Enlarge A Blessed Christmas to all the Studio di Canto Family from all of us.	THIS JUST IN FROM DEAN WITZ: An informal Christmas Concert will take place on Sunday, December 18th at 4:00 PM at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Onalaska Come! Sing!! Enjoy!!! Eat Cookies!!!! St. Patrick's is just across the street from the Studio in Onalaska Special Congratulations to: Studio alums Audra Fuchsel and Aidan Smerud who had leading roles in the recent Viterbo University performance of W. S. Mozart's opera Marriage of Figaro Audra sang the role of "Cherubino", and Aidan, "Count Almaviva" It was a great performance! We're very proud of you! More Kudos for Aidan and Audra! In recent Schubert Club Auditions, Audra received second place in the college Lower Division and Aidan in the college Upper Division received a first place and a cash award. Congratulations to you both! Classical Singer Magazine The Classical Singer Online When you click on this link you will reach their sign-up page which asks for your contact information. Again, this is absolutely free and a real opportunity. Check it out!
News from Denise Rivera Denise has been involved with a very interesting project recently through her friendship with Director Brad Bradshaw. The project, recently premiered in Ladysmith WI, is a full-scale opera dramatizing events from Ladysmith's own turn-of-the-19th-century history. If you missed this, follow the link to find out more Link to the Ladysmith Opera site News from Denise Rivera Beginning Sunday, July 11th Denise has been cantoring regularly at The Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman, La Crosse, and also at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe	Attention Students: Do I have your e-mail address?? Do I have all of them? e-mail them to me dean@studio-di-canto.com Some e-mail addresses are missing from my list - and some were illegible or incorrect. If you did not receive a notice about Molly's recital, please get me your correct e-mail address ASAP! Also - need I say it? - you have to check your e-mail in order to read the message! Don't miss the next message! If you are following the calendar and bulletin board regularly, you have seen the exciting number of community-wide music events our Studio family has been involved in recently! Are YOU involved in something we should know about? Keep the news coming!
Where is YOUR news? Let us know what you are doing!!	The Crane Family As long ago as we can read about the history of the arts, visual art and music have worked hand in hand to express attitudes, feelings of beauty, appreciation, worship. Even the words with which we artists who work in these fields try to express verbally what we are better prepared to show you – even in the vocabulary we use, we borrow from each other, speaking of themes, motifs, coloration. So Studio di Canto is especially delighted to be able to host an on-going display of the works of two artists who work with paint rather than melodic lines. Coming to us in April will be wildlife artist Patrick Shea. Mr. Shea has always been a keen observer and depictor of all those non-human creatures who share our world. He comes from the time-honored tradition of the American naturalist-painters like Audubon and Wisconsin's own Gromme. His inspired draftsmanship is informed by his careful study and observation of his subjects and his passion for their welfare. He studied art at Madison Area Technical College, but he went beyond that by apprenticing to Belle Goebel, a watercolor landscape painter. There are many artists who can render every feather of a bird - Patrick wanted to make paintings of the bird, not diagrams of its plumage – the bird or animal in its environment so you could share his own reverence and delight at coming across it in the swamp or on your backyard fence. I think he has succeeded! In August Madison watercolorist Belle Goebel will also be with Patrick Shea at Studio di Canto. She is best known, perhaps, for her evocative landscapes of the Irish coast, for old and weathered farms, and any building which has acquired the marks of character and age. Thank you Patrick and Belle for addding another layer of artistry to the Studio. There willl be information about the artists in the waiting areas soon.