I would like to take a moment and thank a few key people who made the event an overall success. First, our audio team did a fantastic job as usual in that not only were they effective in mixing almost 50 individual channels of live sound but they had their hands full in tackling our first multi-track recording project. Thanks Brent, Nick, Kerry and Steve for all your valuable input and long hours of preparation and production. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with the recording and our continued process of refining and experimenting!
Our video team was also on top of the ball doing a great job with the lyric projection for both concerts. Thanks Bryan, Iain, Sarrah and Tim for all your efforts in making a wonderful event!
The evenings featured some wonderful soloists who were given very short notice due to my last minute attention to these major details. Thank you Talia, Alyson, Stephanie and Amanda for your wonderful vocal solos. You all hit it out of the ball park! Also, Chip Schooler played beautifully as usual in a haunting arrangement of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" for piano, cello solo and choir.
I will find it hard to find someone who puts in more hours and is relied upon as much from week to week as our pianist, Linnea Wines is. She has been instrumental to the choir for a number of years and I must pay enormous tribute to her faithful participation to our endeavors. Thank you so much!!!
To the Choir & Orchestra: What a marvelous performance you gave to this community! You were faithful in our mission in that you encouraged hearts, inspired minds and provided much needed hope to the souls of so many of our community friends. I hope you feel a grand sense of accomplishment from these two wonderful concerts. Thank you for all the hours of rehearsals and outside practice that went into making these such a success!
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a splendid New Year! I so thoroughly enjoy this relationship we are in. Upon reflection it is almost like that of an arranged marriage. I was chosen by leadership to enter into the artistic marriage with you. And although we are very young into this relationship I hope that you've enjoyed our time together as much as I have. Even though we may have a difference of opinion from time to time, these moments pail in comparison to the joy and the wonderful memories we are creating. I hope you know how much I love each and every one of you as my greatest desire is to continue our mission as we age ever so graciously together.
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