Thursday, August 25, 2011

Oh, Kentucky

Four months until Christmas!

For the Wingo High Class of '75 reunion, I hope the Heart & Soul set list includes all 40 of these back-to-school 1974 hits.

The Kentucky Opera has been rocking Louisville since 1952, and it's not about to stop now--even with orchestra disorder. "... (T)here will be a live orchestra for the upcoming performances of Carmen, which opens the Brown-Forman 2011/12 Season on September 23 & 25," read an email from the Kentucky Opera this morning. "General Director David Roth says. 'Kentucky Opera is reaching out directly to officials of the American Federation of Musicians Local 11-637. We hope to quickly secure an agreement with them for contracting local members of the union to perform Carmen in September. While we regret the very difficult situation with the Louisville Orchestra, we have an absolute commitment to our patrons who passionately believe in the power of the live performance.'"

“Kentucky on iTunes U."

Back to normal at El Charrito in Harlan. Meanwhile, things got a little lively yesterday at J.Milton's in Middlesboro.

RIP, Joel Scarbrough, lover and inspector of Paducah.

3 comments:

  1. I would stone-cold love to attend tonight's citizen-of-the-year gala in Eddyville. One year of my retirement, I intend to provide live HP coverage of every Kentucky citizen-of-the-year dinner I can get myself into.

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  2. The Kentucky desk apologizes to the Wingo High Class of '75 for linking to the wrong Casey Kasem list above. Here are your back-to-school hits of 1974.

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