All of those pedals, keys and pistons might look like so much hardware to some people, but to James it was love at first sight. It was Great.
He wasn’t overwhelmed by the prospect of a lifetime of manual labor; he was totally excited by the possibilities.
Unlike sports, James knew that when he was on the >
When I was hired as associate organist, there was one adult choir and one sung service each Sunday at 10 AM. It was sweet, sweet, sweet.
Within a year or so, that one service had grown to the point that people really couldn’t find a seat. The decision was made to move to a two-sung-service >
It was time to get serious. After a year of being “Seasonal Choir,” singing about one Sunday a month and rehearsing two Saturday mornings each month, the members were up for the challenge of increasing their duties. As I recall, we added one Wednesday evening per month to the two Saturdays, making a total of >
This was the first Coventry Choir Retreat, with Ray Egan as Director of Music. This 1983 retreat was the first of three overnight retreats at retreat centers in the San Gabriel mountains. For whatever reason, we soon grew tired of sleeping in sleeping bags for these events. This first year, we were all in one big room!
