Our piano-accompanied six-handbell arrangement of the hymn tune ARGENTINA (usually sung in English as Song of Hope provides an opportunity to play as a two-bells-each trio. Another possibility is to play as a duet where one ringer plays four bells and the other (perhaps a younger/newer player!) plays two bells. The six bells in the …
Category: website
Apr 04
Calmer Sailing Ahead
If you haven’t noticed (perhaps you’ve been on a nice, long Caribbean cruise?), we’ve been going through a little bit of craziness over the past few weeks. Our website was in limbo, the bottom line being that no one could see it, or browse, or shop, or buy music. Anyway, the Choraegus site is up …
Feb 20
Happy https:// to you!
We’d like to apologize to those of you who’ve noted that our site’s appeared to be “insecure” over the past couple of days. There was a little bit of difficulty with our SSL certificates which has now been fixed. Browsing the Choraegus site is now perfectly safe, and we hope you’ll keep on visiting to …
May 17
Concerts with No Audience
What if you put on a handbell concert, and no one came to see it? We’ve played in some programs of this sort that had small audiences. It can be bit discouraging, because most of us would prefer to be performing to a full house at Carnegie Hall (and earning 50% of the gate receipts, …
Dec 03
Progress!
So far, building the Choraegus website has been a good experience. Among other things, I love how the new platform makes sweeping changes possible with a very small amount of effort. A little more effort, and you can do even more interesting things, too! I still have to uplink my music PDFs, and add a …
Nov 04
Welcome to the new Choraegus website!
Welcome to the new version of the Choraegus website! I’m hoping it’ll be a huge improvement over the original site, with a better focus on music publishing and education. Onward!