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BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS EIGHTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1934 • A work relief program will get underway in the county shortly. All the details have not been worked out, but it is expected the various projects at the schools in Monett will be completed and that the Kelly Creek work will be entirely finished.

• The “chigger,” according to Dr. R.c. Smith with the department of entomology at Kansas City College, is not a “chigoe,” a flea living in the tropics, but a “harvest mite” that does not burrow under the skin, but injects a salivary fluid. They are actually a small tick. Dr. Smith recommended dusting grass with a fine grade of ordinary sulphur to kill them.

SEVENTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1944 • “The little fellows are going to have to carry the ball from here on out!” was W. Vance Davis’ reply when asked about the progress of the Fifth War Loan drive in Barry County. Davis asked for a lot of small subscriptions to reach the half-million dollar quota.

• At the Missouri Constitutional Convention, File No. 19 proposes doing away with special road districts in the state. The Monett Special Road District, considered one of the best in the county, has 68 miles of roads and is permitted to spend one-fourth of its revenue within the city.

SIXTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY. 5, 1954 • Lloyd Grieb, vocational agriculture instructor in Monett High school for the past 10 years, on July 1 became associated with the Gillioz Bank and Trust Company as agricultural specialist. Grieb came to

Mothers and daughters tried to beat the heat in June 1954 together at the Monett Swimming Pool, a popular cool-off spot during the 100-degree weather that week. Mrs. Gene Allen, second from left, and Mrs. Si Grishaber are shown with their youngsters at the pool. From left, are: Linda Allen, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Grishaber, Gay Grishaber and Judy Grishaber. File photo/The Monett Times Monett after teaching in Crane four years and the vocational shop work under his direction expanded greatly.

• When he returns to the Seventh Congressional district to start campaigning for re-election, Congressman Dewey Short will have the $76 million Table Rock dam project completely buttoned up in his hip pocket. President Dwight Eisenhower on July 1 signed the Civil Functions Bill which provides new funds for the project.

FIFTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1964 • For the 17th consecutive year, Harvey Hawkins will be in charge of the firing of the shells and ground displays for the Fourth of July celebration staged annually

by American Legion Post No. 91 at the Jaycee Athletic

Field. Hawkins said, “I think it is going to be the best one yet.”

• New diving boards are in the process of being installed at the new Monett Municipal Swimming Pool.

Both of the boards, including the high spring tower and the low spring board, are equipped with non-skid board surfaces and chrome guard rails.

FORTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1974 • Monett’s Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration, sponsored by the HobbsAnderson Post No. 91 of the American Legion, was an unqualified success with thousands of area residents attending the event at the spacious Monett City Park.

Legionnaires had special attractions for everyone, from pony rides to musical groups. The day climaxed by

the traditional gigantic fireworks display.

• The Monett City Council plans to pass an ordinance raising the fee for trash collection from $1.50 to $2 a month per residence, due to rising landfill expenses.

THIRTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1984 • A written report from the City of Monett describing efforts to improve wastewater treatment is expected to be acceptable to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The city will add new biosurf units to its treatment plant to replace five of the seven giant units that broke down.

• A 120-by-48-foor addition at the Monett Area Sheltered Workshop facilities at 1201 E. Broadway was completed at the end of June. The building is used for storage and bailing card-

board, cloth and newspaper for recycling purposes.

TWENTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1994 • John Ashcroft described the origins of the Liberty Bell in giving the patriotic address at Monett’s Fourth of July celebration.

• The first jet to land at the Monett Municipal Airport arrived on July 5. the 1988 Beechjet 400, owned by EFCO Corporation, was landed by pilots Chris and Mark Ingram. EFCO chairman of the board Terry Fuldner and president Chris Fuldner, Mayor H.C. Beckwith and airport commissioner Rex Lane were passengers.

TEN YEARS AGO JUNE 29-JULY 5, 2004 • Cox Monett Hospital now has a flag flown in Afghanistan to hang in the facility. Dennis Spence, a 1992 Monett High School graduate and security guard at the hospital, returned with the flag after serving as part of the 805th Military Police at the Bagram Air Base.

• Monettans have counted on the unwritten rule that tornadoes may land near, but never in Monett itself. That myth got a rude repudiation on July 2 when a witnessed funnel cloud shredded the Harlin Fruit Company building on Cleveland.

ON THE COVER: Stride piano specialist Paul Asaro sang “A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid,” by James P. Johnson, a hit for Fats Waller, during the James P. Johnson tribute concert at the 2014 Scott Joplin Festival.

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Storytelling helps celebrate Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival Missouri’s biggest ragtime festival gathers mostly pianists for 4 days in Sedalia

BY MURRAY BISHOFF times-news@monett-times.com

Forty years have passed since the first gathering of ragtime music fans in the city of Sedalia.

After two years and a seven-year break, the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival restarted and has since grown into the biggest ragtime celebration anywhere.

The 2014 Scott Joplin Festival, held earlier this month, became a celebration of that success. Stories injected at each event recalled the origins of the music, when Missouri provided the incubator for America’s first original musical form, published in Sedalia, and the success that rekindles annually at the festival.

The music continued to range far beyond the years when ragtime was king, from the publication of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1899 to the Jazz Age sometime in the mid 1920s. On Saturday afternoon, from the John Stark tent in the Sedalia square, the performing venue named for the Sedalia publisher who risked his career printing the music of Joplin, musical styles blended.

Pianists Donald Ryan and his son Barron played a two-piano performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” a 1924 Jazz Age classic often still heard in concert halls today. The performance prompted a standing ovation from the crowd of around 250.

Following them came the powerhouse piano duo of Jeff Barnhart and Brian Holland. Barnhart confessed it was hard to top the musicality of the Ryans, so they responded with “shameless patriotism.”

A rousingly played medley of “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Dixie,” “Over There,” “You’re A Grand Old Flag,” “America” and Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” stirred clap-alongs and a cheer from the crowd.

Such a mix reflects the trend of the Scott Joplin Festival in recent years, less Joplin, though there was plenty of that this year, and more of the music

Jeff Barnhart and Brian Holland, who perform improvised two-piano arrangements, brought down the house under the Stark Tent in the Sedalia square earlier this month. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com that grew out of ragtime.

Expanding on last year, which had the first concert dedicated solely to the music of Carthage-native James Scott, the 2014 festival scheduled two concerts dedicated to individual composers.

The Friday afternoon concert focused on Charles L. Johnson, one of the most prolific composers of the period who wrote more than 400 pieces between 1902-49.

Pianists Sue Keller, Frederick Hodges, John Remmers and Bill Edwards performed 20 pieces, from ragtime to dances. All the pianists together played Johnson’s biggest ragtime hit, “Dill Pickles” (1906) to conclude.

A more adventurous concert followed Friday night, focusing entirely on the music of James P. Johnson. Johnson, more of a jazz composer, expanded the ragtime vocabulary from alternating repeating notes in the left hand to changing chords, a denser jazzier sound known as stride piano. More difficult than ragtime, stride is more a staple at

early jazz events like the Blind Boone Festival, held in Columbia the following week. But the Scott Joplin Festival also attracts many top stride specialists. St. Louis stride specialist Stephanie Trick, Paul Asado, Brian Holland and Jeff Barnhart gave exciting performances of 18 Johnson showpieces, some in two-piano arrangements.

One of the festival highlights came during the concert when young piano titan Adam Swanson played Johnson’s “Yamecraw,” a 12-minute concert piece written to rival “Rhapsody in Blue,” a showpiece unlike anything else in the repertory that was premiered in 1927 at Carnegie Hall by Fats Waller. It was a big piece, stitching together a string of small musical nuggets with breathtaking range and power, played with verve and precision by Swanson.

Johnson did not achieve the popularity he craved, in part because of the sheer technical difficulty of his work, despite his excursions into writing classical

music. In one of the memorable stories from the festival, Barnhart wrapped up his final set at the concert recalling Johnson’s deathbed scene, where he awakened from a coma after his student, Willie “The Lion” Smith, played one of Johnson’s best pieces on a piano across the room. Johnson lamented that stride piano players had been treated too well, with rich food and liquor. Then he was gone.

“We’re celebrating a man who heard Scott Joplin play, took the music to new places and quietly went around being the best stride pianist on the planet,” Barnhart said. “Not bad.”

According to David Majchrzak, artistic director of the festival, the “Johnson and Johnson” concerts became easy choices because of their large output and the number of players who know their pieces. Programming similar single composer concerts will prove more difficult in the future. Majchrzak said he CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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A LOOK AT AREA EVENTS THIS WEEK

BY MURRAY BISHOFF

SPRINGFIELD: REO Speedwagon performs at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East.

At the Gillioz Theatre, 325 park Central East, bands Railroad Earth plus Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy perform at 8 p.m. on Sunday. Scott Stapp from the band Creed performs at 8 p.m. on July 1. The band 311 performs at 7 p.m. on July 3.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: Country music stars Dierks Bentley and Backroad Anthem perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Arkansas Music Pavilion at the Washington County Fairgrounds.

At George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W Dickson in Fayetteville, performing this week are Matt Stell and the Crashers on Thursday; Earl and Them, Brick Fields and Mountain Sprout on Friday; and Parrot Heads on Saturday.

CARTHAGE: Jaron Myers performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the Woodshed in Cherry’s Art Emporium, 311 S. Main.

JOPLIN: At the Downstream Casino, west of Joplin, rocker Sammy Hagar and the Wabos perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Pavilion. Country band Little Big Town performs at 8 p.m. on July 3. In the casino’s regular performance venue, Beer and Chicken Band plays country at 8 p.m. on Friday. The Scott Keeton Band plays blues and rock at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.

MIAMI, Okla.: Bluegrass band Coyote Hill bluegrass, SpringStreet and Heartland Express perform at 6 p.m. on Friday at the Coleman Theater, 103 N. Main.

TULSA, Okla.: At Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, performing this week are Whiskey Myers, Brandon Clark and the Chance Anderson Band on Thursday, and 311 plus Earphunk on July 1. Trisha Yearwood’s concert on Friday is sold out.

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and the Dustin Pittsley Band perform at 8 p.m. on July 1 at the Brady Theater, 105 W. Brady St. KANSAS CITY: At the Starlight Theater in Swope Park, the Fray performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Sarah McLachlan performs at 8 p.m. on July 3.

In the Power and Light District, 60 E. 13th St., Cassadee Pope performs on Thursday.

At Crossroads, 417 E. 18th St., the Yonder Mountain String Band and Railroad Earth play n Friday; Robert Randolph and the Family Band plus Rich Robinson play on Saturday; the Dark Star Orchestra plays on July 1; Conor Oberst and Dawes play on July 2; 311, the Urge and Six Percent play on July 3. All concerts are at 8 p.m.

At the Midland Theater, 1228 Main, Tech N9ne performs at 8 p.m. on Saturday; Kongos perform with Brick+Mortar plus Scruffy and the Janitors at 8 p.m. on June 30.

ST. LOUIS: At the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Country music star Tim McGraw, Cassadee Pope and Kip Moore perform at 7 p.m. on Friday; the Goo Goo Dolls, Daughtry and the Plain White T’s perform at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday; 76 bands have signed to play on Vans Warped Tour, performing at noon on July 2.

At the Lumiere Theater, 999 N. Second St., Steve Grand plus Ariana and the Rose perform at 7 p.m. on Friday.

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SPRINGFIELD: Final performances of Springfield Little Theatre’s production of “Trailer Park Musical” runs at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m.

Sunday at the Landers Theater, 312 E. Walnut.

CARTHAGE: Final performances of Cy Young’s play “Jump, I’ll Catch You” run Thursday through Sunday at the Stone’s Throw Theater, 2466 Old 66 Blvd.

TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, the musical “Wicked” has shows running daily through July 6, except for Mondays, in the Chapman Music Hall. The musical “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” has performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. on Saturday in the Liddy Doenges Theatre.

JohnTom Knight’s coming of age play “A Really Cool, Cool Show (Please Come!)” will be presented Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in the Charles Norman Theatre.

KANSAS CITY: “Lysistrata Jones,” an updated version of the Aristophanes play, is presented through July 12 at the Off Centre Theater in Crown Center, Grand at Pershing Road.

The Coterie Theater at Crown Center presents “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” through Aug. 3.

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival presents “The Winter’s Tale” through July 6 at Southmoreland Park, 47th and Oak St., with shows Tuesday through Sunday at 8 p.m.

Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. Tenth St., presents “Rhapsody in Gershwin,” a revue of Gershwin songs, with shows Thursday through July 3 except for Mondays.

Weekday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday matinees at 1 p.m. Weekend shows are 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.

COLUMBIA: The Columbia Entertainment Company’s production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” has performances Thursday through Sunday through June 29 at 1800 Nelwood Dr. Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is presented at 2 p.m. on Friday Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday at the TRYPS Children’s Theatre in the Columbia Mall on Bernadette Drive.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s play “Good People” is presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday ant 2 p.m Saturday at the Talking Horse Theatre, 210 St. James St. Stephens College presents its summer dance concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday at the Macklanburg Playhouse, 100 Willis Ave, Matthew Carlin’s play “Adam’s Eve” opens July 3 and runs through next weekend at the Maplewood Barn Theatre, 3709 E. Nifong Blvd.

ST. LOUIS: Opera Theater of St. Louis concludes its season with Poulenc’s French revolution opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday; Gordon and Vavrek’s new opera, “27,” about Gertrude Stein in Paris, at 8 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Sunday; and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” on at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Loretto Hilton Center on the Webster University campus in Webster Groves.

The Muny continues season of live theater in Forest Park with Disney’s “Tarzan,” running through July 2. All shows begin at 8:15 p.m.

The St. Louis Irish Arts Summer Concert is presented at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Blvd.

The musical “Love! Valour! Compassion” runs at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Tower Grove Abbey Theater, 2336 Tennessee Ave.

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3-6 at the Ford Arena at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st St.; the Living Legends Challenge and Danger Zone Bull Riding at 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Tulsa RV Ranch in Beggs; and the M&M Customer Campers Tour Rodeo on July 3 at Tahlequah, west of Fayetteville.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Stages St. Louis’ production of “Always…Patsy Cline” runs through Aug. 31 at the Playhouse at Westport Plaza. “They’re Playing Our Song” runs through Sunday at the Robert Reim Theatre, 111 S. Geyer Rd. in Kirkwood.

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MT. VERNON: The annual “Red, White and Boom” fireworks and festivities will be held at Spirit of 76 Park, beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday with fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD: The annual Fireworks at the Field will be held on Saturday at Hammons Field, 955 E. Trafficway.

The China Circus, featuring the FenMo Acrobatic Troupe, performs at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Remington’s, 1655 W. Republic Rd. SARCOXIE: The Team DO3 Open Bull Ride Benefit for st. Jude’s will be held Saturday.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark.: The third annual Grand Illumination effort will undertake the decoration of the Victorian town with paper lanterns and oriental silk, beginning June 30, for two weeks. The kick-off will be at 8 p.m. on June 30 at the Crescent Hotel.

SPRINGDALE, Ark.: The 70th annual Rodeo of the Ozarks will be held on July 2-5 at 1423 E. Emma Ave. Gates open at 6 p.m.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: Fireworks are planned for viewing from the square in downtown Fayetteville on July 3.

TULSA, Okla: Rodeos this week include the Tulsa Summer Circuit July

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Opera in the Ozarks opens its season at Inspiration Point on Highway 62, west of Eureka Springs, Ark. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. under the outdoor pavilion with a full production including staging, costumes and a live orchestra. Shows include Puccini’s two one-act operas “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi” on Thursday and July 2; Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” on Friday, June 30 and July 3, Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” on Saturday and July 1. The Puccini operas are also presented at 7 p.m. on Sunday indoors at the Arend Arts Center at Bentonville High School, 1901 SE J St.

Murray Bishoff is a veteran theatergoer, traveling weekends to many of the venues within driving distance, from Tulsa to St. Louis. From dance recitals to operas, he’s been there and shares his recommendations.

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Festival: Violinist David Reffkin served as primary storyteller for the event

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would like to schedule a future concert focused on the most famous southwest Missouri composer, Percy Wenrich, nicknamed “The Joplin Kid” and best known for songs like “Moonlight Bay.” Beyond that, Majchrzak was not sure who wrote enough works players still knew.

The performance of “Yamecraw,” not originally planned, became possible when Barnhart discovered Swanson prepared the piece for his college senior recital through a webcast. Swanson said it took him a month to learn the piece and longer to polish it. When he finally asked if he could play it anywhere in the festival,

Majchrzak already had a spot for it.

Such excursions into pure concert music make the Scott Joplin Festival more than a foray into a forgotten repertory.

Violinist David Reffkin enhanced that ambiance in his performances with Majchrzak accompanying on the piano. Reffkin took the audience through Joplin’s “School of Ragtime” exercises, turning a violin arrangement into a concert excursion.

Reffkin played several rags, including Ivy St. Helier’s rearrangement of a Franz Liszt Hungarian rhapsody [“List’z To The Rhapsody Rag,” 1917] and Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s “African

Lament” (1931) with ragtime rhythms.

Reffkin has attended every festival and served as the primary storyteller at the 40th anniversary concert, held in the convention center hall at Liberty Park, the central location for the 1974 concert. He performed in shorts, recalling the hundred-degree heat on July 25 that year.

The idea of a ragtime festival, beyond a few regional events like Theron Bennett Days in Pierce City (1960-1970), was mostly a novelty.

Reffkin recalled his surprise at how small the original event was, and yet how the greats of the field, from scholar Trebor

One moment at the Scott Joplin Festival was the performance by the father-daughter team of Scott and Sarah Kirby, performing Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell,” made famous in Ken Burns’ documentary on the Civil War. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

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Tichenor to Eubie Blake, the last original ragtime giant, came.

“We decided this is important music, music the rest of the country needs to know about, and there was much to learn,” Reffkin said. He created

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the restart of the festival with the U.S. Postal Service’s issue of the Scott Joplin commemorative stamp in 1983 and the rallying efforts of local people who wanted to build on what the first festivals had done.

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Stories followed about surprising festival performers over the years, like Jo Ann Castle, of Lawrence Welk Show fame. “One of the most personable, cordial and down-to-earth conversations I’ve ever had,” Reffkin recalled from his interview. Classical music composer William Bolcom, whose “Graceful Ghost” is one of the most performed rags written in

the past 50 years, helped judge a contest. Composer Peter Lundberg, wearing a “Restore Joplin” T-shirt given to him after holding a benefit concert in Sweden for the tornado-torn city, played Wenrich’s “Sunflower Rag,” which he played in 1974, and recalled the performance standards today far surpass the early festival years.

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1974 festival was “like a dream, something from Brigadoon. It has a magical aspect, being around such great people.”

The festival ended on the island in Liberty Park.

Audiences gathered on shore as the pianists, one by one, played “Maple Leaf Rag,” the national anthem of ragtime, over and over.

“The piano represented all pianos,” Refkin said. “We played until the music drifted off till we could gather again.”

The heritage of that festival continue this year, despite the threat of rain putting a damper on several outdoor concerts or relocating them. Despite an overall lower attendance, the paid concerts in the afternoons and evenings had equal numbers to last year. The Friday

night concert moved for the first time to the Heckart Performing Arts Center at Smith-Cotton High School, as well as the Saturday night finale concert, thus avoiding sellouts at the smaller Stauffacher Center at State Fair Community College across town.

Majchrzak said the free concerts around Sedalia, mostly downtown, still provide the key for growing audiences for the future.

This year’s festival represented a concentrated approach, with 45 contracted performers, less than in past years. There were no bands. Illness prompted cancellation by the Etcetera String Band, which appeared in 1974. Two violinists, Reffkin and Sarah Kirby,

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Expectant mom’s disappointment more common than she thinks

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EAR ABBY: When I read the letter from “Undeserving Title of Mommy” (March 4), the pregnant woman who was saddened by the fact that she’s expecting a baby boy instead of the girl she had hoped for, my heart went out to her. I was reminded of something I had read about, a condition called gender depression or gender disappointment.

In the cursory search I did, it was almost always described as what this mother seems to be feeling—disappointment, sadness, guilt, etc.

Unfortunately, this condition isn’t widely discussed, in much the same way that postpartum depression isn’t talked about.

However, from what I’ve discovered, the writer is far from the only woman to experience this.

Many women describe their feelings about gender disappointment on parenting websites. This may be a good start, opening a discussion for this woman on what she is feeling.

She should also consider talking to her doctor to find out what resources may be available to her as she works through this.

I hope she finds the help she needs. I wish her well.—CONCERNED IN NEW MEXICO D E A R CONCERNED: Thank you for the suggestion. Many women sympathized with “Undeserving.” Read on for more responses:

JEANNE PHILLIPS DEAR ABBY DEAR ABBY: I have a son, and when I was carrying him, I felt the same way. I didn’t think I could love him like I could love a daughter. I didn’t tell anyone about my feelings and I, too, felt like a monster.

But this all changed once I held my son for the first time. I can’t imagine now living without my little guy, and I wouldn’t change him for the world.

“Undeserving” is not alone. Many women feel this way about having a son. Like Abby said, don’t rush into signing any papers, because you may find that when you hold him for the first time, you will fall in love and you would deeply regret having done so.— UNDERSTANDING MOM DEAR ABBY: “Undeserving Mommy,” you are so lucky to be the mother of a prince. Every princess dreams of marrying a prince. You need to reread the fairy tales and get some counseling.— GRANDMOTHER OF PRINCESSES AND PRINCE CHARMING DEAR ABBY: You should have also advised

that woman that before she has four children— princes or princesses—she should get an education, a job and a husband so society won’t have to support her little “kingdom.” Too many children have no father figure to help raise them. I spent my working life striving to educate my children, and achieving that goal is much more difficult when there aren’t two loving parents to share the job.—FRED IN THE MIDWEST DEAR ABBY: Even if that child was another girl, there is no guarantee that she would be a girly-girl; she could easily be a tomboy, gay or prefer sports to tea parties.

There is also no guarantee that the little girl “Undeserving” already has will be a girly-girl.

Abby, you were right to advise counseling. This unwed mother shows dis-

turbing signs of living in a fantasy world. And it may well be that the precious baby boy she is expecting would be better off being raised by the father and his family.—JANE IN ST. JOHNS, MICH. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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The Monett Times Midweek

Page 10 • Thursday, June 26, 2014

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The Monett Times Midweek

Thursday, June 26, 2014 • Page 11

Festival: Organizers hope to get more youth interested in the genre

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daughter of returning Scott Joplin specialist Scott Kirby, represented the entire variation from the pianists. Tex Wyndham, the veteran 47-year performer who received the festival’s top honor for his career, led an impromptu Dixieland band of piano players on other instruments, for one concert set only. Even percussionists were not found. Without past regulars, the washboard specialist Mike Schwimmer

and drummer Danny Coots, the only percussion player this year was Scott Miller, a bones player who even offered a symposium on the ancient craft.

Songs, a big part of the ragtime legacy, come and go at the festival, depending on the performers.

This year few songs were heard. Barnhart did a few. Sue Keller vamped Hoagy Carmichael’s 1930 standard “Georgia On My Mind” in the final concert.

Wyndham, who has made

songs a big part of his routines, sang both of his numbers in his only paid concert appearance.

In past years, a number of “stars” have appeared prominently at many events. This year the festival relied heavily on Barnhart, who participated in four of five paid concerts and at the 40th anniversary concert.

“Jeff is my star, and he had no problem taking on those duties,” Majchrzak said.

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The festival had many transcendent moments, even if they weren’t pure ragtime. Barnhart and his wife, Ann, on flute in their duo Ivory and Gold, played contemporary composer Jack Rummel’s “When the Work is Done, I’ll Dance” at the Thursday afternoon concert, and Ann’s tonguing on the flute as the music died away gave a sense of fluttering birds. Sarah Kirby played her violin to her father, Scott Kirby’s accompaniment brought breathless attention to the Saturday night audience with Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell.” Scott Kirby’s playing of Joplin’s

“Bethena” waltz let the melancholy of loss from the death of Joplin’s second wife become achingly clear on the many minor key sections, still ending in a major keyed burst of sunshine.

Deceptively petite Stephanie Trick played James P. Johnson, in Barnhart’s words, “like a 300-pound man,” with great power and precision. Barnhart also showed power was not the only door to take, playing his original “Moving On Blues” in a slow, lilting manner, fading away in broken chords like notes in a snow shower.

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Joplin Foundation director, said his second year at the helm ran much better than the first, when he arrived only a week before the event. The weather created most of this year’s problems. No mechanism alerts concertgoers relying on the program book for scheduling to events relocated. Siegel was nonetheless pleased to see the size of the crowds at the Stark Pavilion tent in the square, though good weather had often added a hundred to that site sitting on the courthouse lawn.

“Next year the key is to get new fans,” Siegel said.

“We must sell to children and parents and figure out ways to develop the youth market.”

Majchrzak had several concerts planned already for next year. He said he felt good about how well the festival ran.

“A lot of concerts ended with beautiful melodic pieces,” Majchrzak said.

“That was the vibe of the festival.”

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