At Kamp's Kabaret recently, the director made the ingenious move of getting through the good part first (unlike any program that sells 'advertising' all the way through, in which you want to save the best for last ... lol see below) and had Oklahoma City University sophomore Margaret Dietrich (from Grand Rapids, MI,) sing all her ...

... wait, no; she only sang half her set before John Sohn came up, so maybe the director did save 'the best' for last as well.

I say she's 'the best' not because she's highly attractive (although she is from Michigan, and I don't think they roll out any other way up `dere), and not because I have compared her with any of the other divine creatures arising from the Wanda L. Bass School of Music; but because Margaret Dietrick was the only reason I attended that night!

I had told her I would be there for her; and there I was!

I had also told her that–though I knew she was going to be the best thing there–I was also sure she would mess it up real good ... and–in one very-small way–she did—she didn't 'warm-up' before starting!

But I thank her for showing us one reason why singers warm-up: to ready their throats/breathing for the tones they don't commonly exercise in daily speech (i.e. she could have 'hit' that high-note with the same force as all the others had she been breathing "right")

But–all-in-all–it does an artist's heart a great deal of good to hear a student as marvelous as Margaret Dietrich singing the music she loves with the great power of the spirit she carries!