Lost sheet music in Fort Dodge—back row of theatre.
Description
Hi, I’m Erin Park. I lost a battered folder of sheet music—mostly piano scores with a few vocal lines, the kind I carry to every rehearsal. After rehearsal at the Fort Dodge Community Theatre, around 8:45 pm on Tuesday, I set the folder on the chair by the stage door and thought I grabbed it, but it wasn’t in my bag when I headed into the night. The folder is black with a red spine and carries a few handwritten markings in pencil. Those pages hold practice notes from late-night sessions, and one page bears my grandmother’s doodle in the corner. I’m hoping someone found it and left it somewhere safe.
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