DO IT, JERRY!!!!!!!    WHAT A KICK!!!!!   And what stories you'll have for us! WOW! I'm jealous as hell!



(And I agree Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson is a great song (and especially instrumental piece.) In fact at our Christmas concerts this year at the Kennedy Center and Strathmore (another venue), we had a youth orchestra doing that one. It was spectacular--especially the way the (17 year old?) percussionist played the xylophone, the marimba (I think) and the blocks (to simulate the whip), coolly walking from one to the other during the piece. I would have been petrified I'd be late.

I'd much rather have the youth orchestra ( called American Youth Orchestra, I think) than the National Symphony accompany us at Christmas. They were so enthusiastic--and damn good.