{"id":43120,"date":"2013-09-18T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43120"},"modified":"2013-09-18T06:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:10:17","slug":"tales-from-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/18\/tales-from-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

I now understand what Tony Bennett meant when he crooned, \u201cI left my heart in San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0 I did the same as I left my daughter yesterday in San Francisco.\u00a0 We just returned from a nice 10-day vacation with her and her husband in the Bay Area, where we put nearly as many miles on our feet as we did our rental car.\u00a0Perhaps this is why San Francisco is constantly rated one of the most physically fit cities in America.\u00a0Everyone seems to walk or ride bikes.<\/p>\n

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The Hovermans with George and Altha Brooks and their daughter on the Golden Gate Bridge. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If any of you have seen my Facebook page, you already know that as we were walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday afternoon, we ran into Van Wert residents George and Altha Brooks.\u00a0Two million people in the area and we just happened to walk across the same area of the same bridge at the same time.\u00a0I know many of you have similar stories, but it never ceases to amaze me!\u00a0 The Brookses were out there to see (of course!) the Buckeyes play Cal in football, but they also met up with their daughter, Lyndsay, and her husband, who now reside in Seattle.\u00a0We haven\u2019t seen Lyndsay in years, but always have fond memories of her working for us at Hoverman Music Center.\u00a0 What a surprising and fun reunion that was on the Golden Gate Bridge!<\/p>\n

Okay, I know this column is about music, so I will now get to the topic at hand.\u00a0 While in California, we joined the over 30,000 Buckeye fans who took the trip out west to see the Bucks paste the Cal Golden Bears on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Berkeley.\u00a0The football team looks good early in this season, but the OSU Marching Band is also in mid-season form.\u00a0They made the trip, via Los Angeles, to San Francisco and joined with the Cal Band to perform a powerful \u201cStar-Spangled Banner\u201d to start the game.\u00a0 As the OSU band performed its pregame and halftime shows, it made me think of the power and excitement we are in store for at the sold-out concert at the Niswonger PAC on November 7.<\/p>\n

Also, while in San Francisco we took in the San Francisco Symphony concert in the beautiful Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.\u00a0 Famed conductor Michael Tilson-Thomas was conducting the orchestra in Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1<\/i> and Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony No. 3<\/i>.\u00a0 They were giving three performances of this concert and tickets were hard to come by for the opening night on a Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Listening to this world-renowned orchestra in a beautiful symphony hall made me think of the concert we have coming to the Niswonger in March with the Toledo Symphony performing the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein and featuring local vocalists Mary Ann Falk and Jake Wilder.\u00a0With this concert still months away, there are a few hundred tickets remaining, although each day it seems we sell more and more.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t help but think how fortunate we in Van Wert are to have the same opportunities as those in much larger cities.<\/p>\n

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The Ohio State University Marching Band at the University of California at Berkley. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After 10 days off, it is now time to get back into the swing of things in Van Wert.\u00a0 I just returned early this morning and have already had a meeting with my Niswonger staff to get caught up.\u00a0 Facility Coordinator Mark Hartman reminded me of the big Volunteer training session we have coming up on Tuesday, September 24, at 7 p.m.\u00a0 For any volunteers reading this, we encourage you to attend this meeting in the Lecture Hall.\u00a0 There will be review of current policies as well as some new information to share.\u00a0 We appreciate all our volunteers and want you to be filled with as much information as we can give to help make concert experiences at the Niswonger first class.<\/p>\n

Lastly, this Thursday evening at 6:30, the Niswonger will host a concert with the Isaacs as part of a fundraising event for Lifesong for Orphans.\u00a0 This is an organization that has touched the lives of some local residents and we are pleased to be able to assist them.\u00a0The Isaacs are a bluegrass\/gospel music group out of Nashville who has been turning the gospel world on its head with their music and live concerts.<\/p>\n

And as an interesting side note, they appear on the soon-to-be-released Christmas album of Trace Adkins entitled The King\u2019s Gift<\/i>.\u00a0 Of course, Trace\u2019s Christmas show will be coming to the Niswonger this November 16.\u00a0 You can get tickets for The Isaacs\u2019 concert at the Niswonger in advance and the night of the show.<\/p>\n

We are closing in on our season opener.\u00a0Let the music begin!<\/p>\n

FIN\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I now understand what Tony Bennett meant when he crooned, \u201cI left my heart in San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0 I did the same as I left my daughter yesterday in San Francisco.\u00a0 We just returned from a nice 10-day vacation with her and her husband in the Bay Area, where we put nearly as many miles on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 03:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}