Hosanna! recap

"Hosanna!" ([1], [2]) was last night, and it went very well. Amy and I had a lot of fun, but after all the organizing, rehearsing, graphic design, and recording, I'm glad it's over with. We got a lot of compliments, and people were asking if this would be an annual event. We had just over 50 people attend, and the free-will offering raked in a cool $320 -- I never dreamed we'd get that much! That's going to the church music fund for things like choir music and piano/organ tuning.

Hopefully I'll have some time this weekend to put the CD together. For copyright reasons, this isn't something to be sold at a profit, so much like the church choir's Christmas cantata, I'll just be donating my time and selling them at cost (which doesn't really get around the legal aspects, but it at least gets around the moral aspects ;) ).

However, I'll upload one track here for you to listen to, because I arranged it all myself (originally as a choir piece with a cool piano part, but here with the violin playing the melody). This was our opening number, and the concert itself bears the same title: Hosanna! (low quality mp3, 388 K)

Here are the front and inside of the program as well.