Several days ago, Kristi came home from work and said that she heard that there was going to be an event at the Carson Center that night that we might want to go see. It had something to do with the University of Louisville, but she wasn't sure. She thought there would be music, and maybe theater. But she had heard that it would be good, so we cleaned up quickly and headed there. I'm so glad we did.

It turned out that basically it was a sampling of what their arts department can do - it was a recruiting exercise. And a very good one. Besides an appearance and talk by the president of the university, their performance included everything from a large vocal chorale backed up by a full symphony orchestra to a jazz quartet playing authentic and quality swing jazz, to a poetry reading, and even a performance of a shakespeare scene.

The performances were high quality. I was very impressed. The president of the university said that they had brought over 200 people to do the performance, and I believe it. If I was a young person, and could afford it, and was going to go to college for the arts, I'd have been dazzled by what I saw. Of course, I am a college drop-out, so who am I to say anything? But...it shows that someone at that university is into the arts and has vision about how to recruit people into the program, and is proud of their program - rightfully so. And, it was great for the community to have such a high quality, and free program. Several hundred took advantage of it, but not enough. There should have been more.