Event starts at 7 p.m., tickets are $500, a charitable contribution to Dallas Summer Musicals, of which Karen is a new board member. So how long as she been a chanteuse? Turns out our Dallas real estate whiz was a student at the Dallas Summer Musicals School for the Performing Arts. And I think Karen once told me she sang at Sweetbriar College, (just a few years ago). Singing gives her a multi-dimensional life, she says, and she learned how empowering it is to conquer a challenge from Dallas businessman Dick Bass. He told her that after climbing mountains, he was never again intimidated when sitting in front of a banker asking for loans.

I wish I could hear her–maybe she’ll offer an encore performance? Maybe “Climb Every Mountain” in honor of Mr. Bass and Dr. Beck Weathers? If you can, go and listen and help raise money for a wonderful cause: Karen will be singing with other students in tonight’s performance, who have been inspired by DSM and will, no doubt, be inspired by her.