I look back and now can hardly believe that I did my Senior Recital only a few days after the Messiah concert. I remember having fun doing my own arrangement of "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof. Afterwards Weston Noble, the conductor of the Nordic Choir, came up to me and said that I should play Curly in Oklahoma! some time. (Little did he know....)
My senior year at Luther I auditioned and got one of the bass solos for the Messiah. I believe it was "Thou Art Gone Up on High." So much fun getting to perform with such a huge orchestra and chorus.
One of my first fun character roles was as Antonio, the drunk gardener in Mozart's Il Nozze di Figaro. We sang it in English, however. It was double cast, but since my part wasn't all that big I got to perform with both.
Later (see 1987) the Dorian Opera Workshop used a photograph from the production for a promotional brochure. I ended up requesting an audition, and got one.
A program from the Nordic Choir Tour in 1979. If I remember correctly this was during January Term.
