Madonna Wine Goss - A Tribute

[4231sims]

We actually had a collage level education in high school. I still use her techniques to this day. I remember singing that song that year and playing it the next year. A great tribute to a great great lady.

[kimhuntable]

you taught me so much more that to sing, blend, and listen, you taught me the joy of hearing my voice blend with hundreds of others in a beautiful uplifting sound....just to be a part of it was a joy! You taught me that teachers can really have a huge influence. Because of you, through me, my daughter is now in charge of the muse machine and the musicals at stebbins high school! your dream lives on!

[waterboat1956]

Madonna was the best! We recorded records, played shows, sang in competitions. She made me her assistant in 1974 and I played guitar for her for choir and the Falconaires. Because of her, I teach at Berklee College of music.

We stayed in touch and she visited me in Boston twice. I really was sad when she passed away....shook up all day in fact.

She remembered me in her will - and I received a statue of Fiddler on the Roof, which is the musical we did in '74.

I miss her!

[iveyspam]

Mrs. Goss, you never picked me for anything no matter how many times I tried out, but that's okay. I understand now that I was a late bloomer. :) The fundamentals you taught me took me all the way to soloing with a symphony orchestra, the biggest musical thrill of my life. As I stood there on the stage in front of a thousand-plus people, I thought of you. In large part I have you to thank for putting me there.

"A teacher never knows where her influence stops."

[tsmktb]

What great memories!! We were so lucky to have had Mrs. Goss in our lives. Thanks for the tribute.

[OMM06]

God bless our music teachers!

[starboybilly]

Indeed!

[mitchbudd]

I'm old enough to have been a member of a high school choir that competed head to head w/Ms. Goss' choirs constantly and it was certainly a good day if you could be competitive w/them; beat them? Not a chance. She was something. I frett the fact that she retired in '83, how is that possible? Ms. Goss, you are truly an amazing musician and the world is certainly poorer with your passing. Thanks for the competition.  And the memories.

[starboybilly]

Thanks for commenting. We appreciate it. So many lives are so much better for having known her!