a success last night!!

[Karl Moyer]

The Sixth Day of Christmas 

Hi,

The A.G.O.

Escaped the snow!

   Perhaps we were just  lucky.

From Omundsen to Dodd

In the praise of God,

  It came off nice and plucky.

OK.  confession time:

I’m no poet,

And I know it;

   Inspiration’s bleak.

Old writ fulfilling, 

The spirit’s willing,

  But my, the brain is weak!! 

SO:  it’s your turn now.    :-)

I thought last night was a wonderful  success, especially with the wonderful crowd in that place.    I also thought there was excellent variety as the evening went on.   The singing was beyond wonderful!!   I’ll I suppose we had a crowd of people who knew what they were coming to and were really ready to SING.  

A ton of thanks to Margaret Marsch, who pulled lots of loose ends together to make it happen.  Margaret, you get an extra piece of shoo fly pie for supper tonight because of this.  :-) 

A blessed on-going Christmas season to you all. 

Old Formerly-A-Good-Organist Guy

[Margaret Marsch]

Greetings All!

No poetry from me. Nor shoofly pie, unless someone else makes it. I've been in the kitchen allllll week with my wondrous crowd of family here, who, by the way, did thoroughly enjoy our AGO evening last night, probably mostly to support future bro in law, Frank, as well as me, but also to lend their voices to the wonderfully vociferous crowd of voices there. They had good things to say about our event.

Many, many thanks to all of you who helped with the evening last night. We did have an awesome crowd, possibly breaking the fire code I'm afraid, but who's telling. Our players loved playing that mighty Casavant, and the crowd sang with such lustigkeit, it made for yet again, a musically gratifying ending to our calendar year. Hearty thanks to Peter, Mark, Terry, Carl, Glenn, Pat, Rachel, Karl and Frank for all your interesting arrangements and congregational accompaniments; we ALL know there is nothing simple about making that happen on a strange organ this time of year. Special thanks to Glenn for your improv and bass and soprano descants on the Huron Carol - next time we'll print them so we all get it right! Thank you, thank you to Karl for the thorough program notes, and to Scott for all the printing, folding, stapling, AND for thinking ahead with the 100 extra shortform programs - and we still ran out!! Mark, thanks so much for your good audience leadership. Super Thanks Greg, Ash, Scott and David Schulz, the great usher team who went miles of extra miles to find chairs and hymnals for that amazing overflowing crowd. Thank you too to Earle Cornelius of LNP for a great article, and Rob Horton for the photograph for the Engle papers - publicity does certainly help to build a crowd.

We think there were around 325 people there and an offering over $1500, so I believe this event is here to stay. Stay tuned for next year's location, larger we hope, and keep some of your favorite Christmas pieces in your mind for next year's program.  Mark has already declared it will be the Friday after Christmas which makes it Dec. 28, 2018, so mark your calendars. It's not too early to volunteer!

Thank you all again, and a lovely new year to you all!

Margaret Marsch