Carol Menges

Carol Menges spent most of her professional career in the Greater Seattle area as a musician, teaching all ages and levels of students piano, organ, choral conducting, choral technique and composition. After graduate school in choral conducting, she became an off-campus instructor for Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA), offering WWU credit for music history and theory. She organized, managed and directed choral performance ensembles Marysville Musicale, Puget Sound Children's Chorus (with Judith Nielsen), Marysville Mormon Children's Choir plus music festivals for adult singers, music teachers and children. Song Arising choral ensemble and theater company was founded in northern Idaho and Spokane WA. She now lives in Boise, ID.

History and its impact on civilizations is my favorite subject for reading, whether scholarly works or well researched historical novels. My favorite authors have inspired me to try to discover how they manage to write so well without their masterful technique shouting in the forefront to be noticed before the narrative. Included in my very large must-read list is David McCullough, Amy Tan, Willa Cather, Jane Austin, Taylor Caldwell, Katharine Scherman, Stephen E. Ambrose, Hugh Nibley, C. S. Lewis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Paul Robert Magocsi.