Hi Jerry,

I meant to say--a while ago--that's it's no mystery why you're in the middle of some of the best music going--you and your groups are making some of the best music going.

Between Mudcat hairballs and my own schedule--rehearsals Tuesday and Wednesday--and again tomorrow--I haven't been able to even bring this thread up for a while.

Your plumbing adventures are very impressive--I'm not sure I could have emulated you.



One of the things on my list now is to collect "Normanisms"--things our conductor has said over the years--to be printed in a book we're going to give him at our next concert--which is a combination 40th anniversary of the group/ Norman's 70th birthday.   I've written a lot of them down in my music. For instance a bass line that wasn't very clear he called "a real wine-cellar special"--as if we'd visited a wine-cellar before we sang it. He had a lot of good comments like that--as you know, they really liven up a rehearsal.