Wind Ensemble Project (pt.II)

O.K. -- Milt Allen is on-board and totally pumped to conduct this project into reality. We're already brainstorming on names for the ensemble so we can print up t-shirts, and we don't even know who'd be wearing the t-shirts yet! (by the way: anybody have an uncle in the t-shirt printing business?)

Alan Bise is also 100% behind this. I can't believe how lucky I am to have a friend like Al. By taking the engineering on, Alan takes a tremendous weight off my shoulders. So two of my key ingredients are already in place...

The plan is to do this whole thing start-to-finish within 3 hours -- estimating 2 hours to rehearse and an hour to record. That's not a huge amount of time, but it should suffice. Alan, Milt and I have compared schedules and the two dates I'm aiming for are October 16th, or October 24th... if those get too ugly I have the first weekend in November as a fall-back. I'm hoping to be able to book an auditorium in a high school -- there's rarely anything going on in a high school on the weekend, so it should be pretty quiet for us to record there.

Now I'm definitely going to do this project in Ohio... but Alan is in Cleveland, and Milt is in Columbus... I know quite a few musician-friends still living in Cleveland, but there's lots of great musicians at OSU...