Maggie And The Lt. Colonel...

Here is the program from last night's Williamsburg Consort "America Alive" concert. It was fabulous! Tom Puwalski was the clarinet soloist and his musicality was second to none. He received standing ovations for each of his performances, but there was an irrepressible presence in the house, and she stole the show.
Miss Maggie Worsdale brought down the house...again! When she sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band", the interplay between her and the conductor, Lt. Colonel Larry Lang (USAF) tickled everyone in the audience.
When she came back onstage to perform "All That Jazz", he started teasing her about her hat. She told him that after her performance, she'd let him wear it.

Then, she started singing her baudy rendition of the song and he had a hard time not laughing during the performance when she twirled her cape and hit him square in the tush! He really wasn't expecting that. (Being a serious military type, and all.)
The song ended, she reminded him that he was going to put on her hat. She handed it to him, and (to all of our surprise), he bent over and placed on his head! What a sport!
She had one more number (with a guest conductor) to do after this embrace, so she told him he had to take her hat offstage with him. He stepped down off the podium, hung his head, bent his shoulders...and still wearing her hat, sauntered off the stage. The house filled with laughter.

This is the image I'll remember from this year's Consort performance...a memory of all of the fun we had this year in Williamsburg. It was a wonderful week with all of our musical friends.

Today we'll load up the F150 and head south. Time to leave and go back to Florida. We're heading home, Kessie. Keep the light on for us. I'll share more photographs after we get back home. (I've saved some great ones of Handsome's Dixieland Band performance for you.)