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Re: Listening to the music - 12 years ago

Sigh. We (our church choir director) had planned to sing "How Unto Bethlehem" on Jan. 9, as it would appropriate to celebrate Epiphany. For some reason, though, the choir virtually disintegrated right after Christmas. In fact, we were badly short of voices for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So that song has been shelved for this year. We're starting up practices again this week to

by philj - General Discussion

Re: Listening to the music - 12 years ago

Well, I found and bought enough copies of "How Unto Bethlehem" for our church choir. We took our first look at it at our weekly practice on Thursday, and I think everybody liked it. Of course, I've been practicing the tenor part(s) at home - there's an open-source program called MuseScore that lets you construct and play back a musical score, and it's very useful for this sort of thing!

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Listening to the music - 12 years ago

Working on this web site has had a couple of unexpected benefits for me... First, it allowed me to revive some somewhat dormant skills a bit: HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP, etc. It was actually quite a bit of fun to put the front part of it together, with the music, a couple of photos scanned from a yearbook, etc. And finding and configuring the community portion was interesting to me. And listen

by philj - General Discussion

Welcome! - 12 years ago

Welcome to the MLA Alumni and Friends community forum! Since this is a bit of a new experiment, any and all ideas for ways to enhance everyone's experience are welcome - just send your suggestions and thoughts to me via private message or email. Enjoy your visit!

by philj - Announcements