by Jacob Turner | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Does your pet like music? The answer is: Yes. But not your music. Don’t worry. It’s not personal. Our companion animals, domesticated thousands of years ago, are descended from primarily nocturnal predators. Over millions of years they developed an acute sense of...
by James P. Leary | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
America’s Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where for centuries many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk traditions. As the prominent American folklorist Richard M. Dorson observed in 1947: “Particularly in the Lake...
by Darold A. Treffert | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
On a warm summer night in June of 1980, Leslie Lemke gave a piano concert in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. That concert was my introduction to an extraordinary man and his surprising talent. Leslie’s talent stems from a rare but remarkable condition called savant syndrome...
by Tom Pamperin | Feb 22, 2013 | Magazine Article
No ordinary chorus, The Master Singers are a nationally renowned amateur choral ensemble dedicated to bringing the finest choral music to the Chippewa Valley and beyond. By day the ensemble members are nurses, lawyers, teachers, librarians, and software engineers;...
by Liza Burkin | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
As Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons strode on the stage of Milwaukee’s historic Turner Hall, the audience—comprised of both well-dressed suburban folks out for a night of musical entertainment and flannel-clad hipsters from the city—applauded enthusiastically....
