Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins; 504; Herrmann Lipizzan Stallions, Entertainer Eric Watters, Earlye Musicke Consort, Owen Comora

The the the. The special presentation was produced in high definition by W. edu Tampa St. Petersburg Sarasota than this night show this week the man the great documentarian Ken Burns affectionately called Pussycat. He's white and yet he lost three limbs on the stallions working out and. Come to know them. Song and dance man. Oh. In this family I'm a Gulf Coast Journal exclusive really generous.

Strong unity leaders partners down. Dear Journal. We consider performers and performances as we wander the Gulf Coast this month. Performers of all times the range of performance available on the Gulf Coast is one great reason to live here. So let us begin our parade of performers but be apprised. They're not all people. Of the tender beauty of a one day old Philly home which takes your

breath away. She is one of the rarest breeds of forces on earth. A look bizarrely. It's always exciting when the new life comes into the world. Gabby Herman has watched this miracle unfold time and time again it never gets old. And has been in my family for three hundred years. One of my ancestors he was a knight. And over the years the family has always perpetuated the breed. The next generation. Gabby's three year old cousin Bianca Herman getting her first look at the next generation of lip Azzam. It. Sounds like love at first sight. But prisons are born black brown or bay colored. Most eventually turn white shall go through a color process of going white. It takes about seven to ten years. The momma didn't change mama stays

stay her color. Lepas on in the barn is considered good luck because they're rare. The Phillies farther is the spectacular stallion in your grade at age 29 a ripe old age for most horses. Yuri is still performing in the end out of the rain. Bianca doesn't own the Clippers on gets although she's a pro with her miniature stallion named Major Minor acclaim. Gabby hopes that Bianca will someday follow in her footsteps as head of the family business. She knows each horse she knows are personalities. She comes in here in the morning helps us clean the barn. That little girl it's in her. The warm room. There are 200 acre farm in my acca city is home to 30 horses a dozen

or so Herman relatives. Several apprentices plenty of mentors for Bianca. I like working with these high flying high spirited stallions takes on vital skill and bravery. Could I another of Bianca's cousins Carmen Herman Stiles also epitomizes the depth of passion needed. I'm 41 I've been with them my whole life and there are still times when they bring me to tears. The kindness that these times have is just incredible. But all. These magnificent maneuvers are called errors of both the ground and the talent that such Philippa's arms apart from other breeds. During the Middle Ages they were the mightiest of warhorses so valuable only generals were allowed to ride them in the battle. Their leaping kicks inflicted deadly blows upon the ground

soldiers. When I'm on the end of alliance with him we have taught him to become a weapon a lethal weapon. And when he is doing his Caprio his intent is to kick me as aggressive as he can be as soon as I call him to me. You can see his whole demeanor change from you know one hand being. A killer to the other hand being this kind gentle soul. Good boy good boy. If it seems that all these performing Herman's are females. No. It's true it's an all women's team and we always get asked why. Well it's genetics the Harmons have mostly girls. Legacy. Gabby remembers riding a horse before she was old enough to walk. I got all my training from my grandfather he was a whole world disciplinary and I cannot do it was not in his

vocabulary. Abby's grandfather and father both named Ottomar Herman were part of a risky lip Azzam rescue during World War 2. The horses have been captured by the Germans under orders from former Olympic rider U.S. General George S. Patton. The Army's 2nd Cavalry save the liberal zombies possibly from extinction. The family had the fight of sneaking their horses up with that group coming across. And they had her you know Patton always said you know these horses need to be exposed in the farming family decided to bring them to the U.S.. Every saw there was the heart and soul of his family and his beloved lepas on's when he died shortly after the show in 2004. Gaby became the heir apparent to crown the brand. I'll have to be honest it was a moment where I was a little. Overwhelmed by the financial and scared Thanks

Guy rocketing costs especially for fuel are forcing Gabbie to cut back on the travelling show which made the lookers on famous us. Maybe we were going to have to let it go but then I go I look at those boys and I. Was going to be the first one to go. This is why. I couldn't do it. The homes are determined to keep the traditions of the past a family tradition. Another performer. Ask anyone in the city of Venice who is the favorite song and dance man and you'll hear the same name over and over. Question is. How did a former English teacher a former financial planner. How did Eric Watters become Mister entertainer.

This. Was a full house this night which tend to remain with us. It's always a challenge. You have to deliver the goods and you have to deliver Wow. Or they won't invite you back. Get it. It was with. Her. For two hours they watch one man no special effects no laser lights no video screen. Tolo for the few hours they watched Eric waters the entertainer. Erik's performing life began early. My father was a theater professor and when he needed a child in a play

I would be the child. He continued theater through college then stopped. I knew that. I didn't want to try to do what my father had done because he had done it so well and I suppose I feared. Not doing it as well as he and so therefore avoid that. And do something else. When I was a little already he never completely lost touch with performing though during careers as a teacher and then a financial planner. Balancing multibillion dollar portfolios for years and there's an awful lot of acting that goes on there trying to keep those clients happy. Here at Venice Presbyterian Church some 40 years after he had started performing as a child he started again that would do it that you are so. Scared and.

I was scared to death in the sleep he had on myself nodded and drew bending close to my shoulder to let go. He began performing shows up and down the East Coast. Many of them for charitable benefits. His efforts have raised thousands upon thousands of dollars for many good cause over the years. My baby to sleep in such a horrible so giving gesture to bring a little bit of joy to those who need it most. That's that's a really noble thing to do. All right you are. This. Forest Home Eric meticulously arranges his show not just a list of songs. A series of stories some provided by his father load the theater professor. Then died today. Man who woke at dawn or before it to live another day and did not.

The soldier my father had been in World War 2 and had kept a journal. So I took the journal I used the journal as the contacts for the songs. On April 25th 1944 the city of Paris was liberated. On August 26 the very next Sunday. This song was number one. On the Lucky Strike for a song that night by Mr. Frank Sinatra all over Somers to a man I am aware an audience that doesn't come just to hear songs they come to see a show and for the next two hours Eric waters interchange to. You. I will be back in just a. Moment.

Thank you very much. It is performance as Eric waters likes to delve into the Great American Songbook going back to songs from 30 40 50 years ago. Our next performers. Go a lot further back than that. We know that some people moved to Florida for the summer to see the Sam retiring in the Sunshine State to play the instrument. When our favorite teen century major prizes what I found out there was a recorded concert here and we quickly found a condo and moved in and we have been living happily ever after and playing every Tuesday. Every Tuesday in the rehearsal room at the St. Boniface a preschool church on Siesta Key. Between breaks of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque period. We heard Barbara Elster story of relocating to the Gulf Coast repeated over and over again.

My wife and I settled here for our retirement because of the record a group that is suppose of ale for her. Lyn L. Williams leader of the early music Tom church moved to Sarasota for the very same reason and that was more than 20 years ago. Nice that the national was nice a. Recorder is often thought of as a. Child. Because of its widespread use in modern day school. Music Program. It's oh it's an easy instrument to learn to play. You have just a certain set of thinkers you can you can with and you can learn the fingerings for it. That having been said it is not an NC instrument to play well mastering the record. We're. Back to medieval times demands. A lot of hard work. During the Renaissance when music began to experience a new freedom away from the church. THE

RECORDER included an entire family of instruments. The contra bass. Tenor. Flying. The oboe like korma muse. And trying to. Separate meaning from the recorder. Particular favorite. Has to be in the thoughts of a lot not of the none of the modern stuff none of the non-classical. I just moved here in August and one of the things I did before I actually got here was went on line and discovered there

was a record a group here and called the NL and jumped right in. The recorder around 1750 just went out of style. Because of the larger concert halls and. The bigger orchestras with the more modern instruments. The recorder just could not be heard and. It was resurrected the 1930. From Great Britain new from popular culture and I like the intensity of the sound. There are simple.

And. Simple intimate playful Sarasota early music Tom Short performs several concerts each year. Boyle group listeners Heather in the sanctuary of St. Bonaventure to enjoy our uniquely medieval to modern times Europe for the US. This fish Doric instrument has traveled through cultures era times before making its way to finding a home. On the Gulf. As we conclude our look at performers and performances we. Turn the tables and consider not those putting on the show but a man who is a most knowledgeable and have an audience. In the cool morning hours at my acca State Park Nature puts on quite a show for the Christian comrades coming in for a landing and one

man is in the front row. Move those ducks they look at those ducks there is one Camorra resident bird interpreter. Good morning good. Morning. Welcome to the first water. You're in luck. We have some roseate spoonbills out there. Every Tuesday and Thursday from November through April. You can find no one here talking bird talk. You're looking at equating eating a fish. They have to swallow the fish head first. If they swallowed it tail first the scales would cut off that goal that Owen is a walking encyclopedia lets her knowledge his leader play by play commentary is not exciting and insightful. You're doing this a kingfisher up there hovering. You say bring healing to it you can see a fish from up there and if you can. Is it. He smashes into the water. He make it. He missed he missed. He'll have to try again. Wherever Owen goes people flock to that there's a lesser.

He has collected six hundred and twenty two North American birds on his life list. That tally the birds keep the role of the bird species they've identified during their lifetime a bird. Oh and tell me what's the fascination about birds. Well the it's the thrill of the hunt without killing anything. The thrill of the hunt began for Owen in North Bergen New Jersey at age 13. Many birders were it wasn't there. It was not the kind of thing that you admitted to your friends especially enjoys. He went to college at Utica College of Syracuse University graduated with a PR degree got a job at a prestigious New York ad agency and I took Rod Serling on his first press tour for The Twilight Zone. Yeah that was a wonderful experience. In 1962 no one went to work for what would become network TV's most famous bird.

No no not that one. The other one they didn't had the peacock. When I got to work at NBC in 19 in 1960 the RE they had the NBC snake. As director of national press. Oh and rubbed elbows with many celebrities. But his passion for birding never waned. Even in the city I always had a pair of binoculars at the desk and if a client would call and a bird came by I had to tell them the hold on I had it then if I had the bird and they understood. I think I'll put up with it at my bird. After 20 years with NBC Owen started his own PR company with his wife Betty and she was actually my secretary and vice president and chief bottle washer. And one morning I went. And woke her up at some thing sometime around 6:30 a.m. and I said Betty take a letter. And Betty looked at me and she said Oh and take a hike.

Oh and I got about the same respect from a young filmmaker whose documentary he was hired to promote. When the program was civil war I had never heard of Ken Burns before and I was introduced to him in New York City and I see this kid when I came in and everybody's kind of fawning over him. I'm introduced to him Ken Burns Owen Kamara and he's not that friendly towards me. He came into my office and I just did not like him at all I guess he thought that I was a Broadway type press agent. And at the end I rather disdainfully said what do we now i have to call you pussycat and you call me sweetheart now is that what it is. Because this is the language of flack. And we. Formed a kind of a bond and over the years we still talk to each other the same way it is now the

Pussycat and sweetheart have become Terms of Endearment now. He is a pussycat. He's just one of the great all around human beings I've ever met. Just maybe I just saw a male and female would duck out there walking in the back and I'm really surprised. Oh and Betty retired to Sarasota in 1999. Compatible and completely opposite me look at the neighbors over there. I know that a personality that nobody won't do that. My wife is not a birder. She encourages me to bird whenever I want as long as she doesn't have to come with me. Here are a couple black Knick stilts unsure of what to do with his newfound free time. I want to approach the folks at my Acura with an idea. I said you know why don't we set up a birding program. I'll bring my spotting scope and my binoculars and try to teach people about the birds. My aka.

And they thought that was a great idea. Nine years later the Bird Talk is still going strong even on his off days the bird interpreter is still the interpreter in the turkey vulture glides with kind of a V A V for Vulture. If they were eagles they would glide with ease. They wings even even for Eagle the eagle and the osprey of course flies like that. Yeah as a bird called an American Bittern wanders into sight it is clear that the thrill of the hunt is still alive. Sixty three years after Owen's birding began he caught a snake bite here. This is the best view I've ever had. Oh and you know there are cynics who feel that. Burgers really need to get a life. Well Jack I have to tell you that we have a light. And it when we go birding It's a beautiful life. A beautiful life that is tranquil and rewarding.

Life definitely. Not for the voyage. Speaking of Boyd's birds and my acca state park the other day we were out at my acca shooting this kind of thing stand uppers we call one more stand and prattle on about something or other. Well only after we finished Did any of us look up and realize that about eight feet above my head on a branch there a magnificent. Red shouldered hawk. We leave you now with some glimpses of that great bird and some of his my neighbors. Oh.

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