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We recently released 2 albums: The Crucifixion and Hymns and Songs of My Mother, and momentarily will be releasing several songs. Several additional projects are in the "pipeline" for recordings and companion books. Details about those projects are in other parts of this website.

Recordings

The Crucifixion

The score for The Crucifixion became Public Domain the beginning of 2023, removing copyright restriction. TortoiseClimbing Audio™ converted the 1959 private LP by Annapolis High School's 3 choirs to digital at Slipped Disc, and mastered and restored that unique recording of their performances.

Version 2 (2024) is available free from our online audio Marketplace presence. To access version 2, see Store Access.

The initial version 1 restoration and mastering of the digital audio file of The Crucifixionis available Free from this website, was completed the end of January 2023. To access version 1, see Download Process.

Hymns and Songs of My Mother

This very long album of 27, nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs was released digitally 6-20-2024, and as a CD 9-20-2024. The hymns and songs were selected with my mother from my parents favorites. To access see Hymns and Songs.

The Store Access page on this website provides links to the online Marketplace for:

Advance Podcasts

As soon as the eBook History Through 27 Hymns and Songs is complete, we will begin recording advance podcasts of chapters from the eBook. The advance podcasts will be made available both as:

Audiobook

When the podcast series is completed, the parts will be edited and assembled as appropriate creating an audiobook. Target for availability of complete audiobook is end of 2024.

eBook (Publishing)

TortoiseClimbing Publications™ is working with Ms. Ingrid Bartinique as editor for the eBook, History Through 27 Hymns and Songs. Her editing has been seriously slowed by various health and family issues, but target for completion is 2025.

Tributes

TortoiseClimbing™ continues to have very simpatico working relationships with colleagues, namely our audio engineers/producers Mr. McElroy and Ms. Gerber-Salins, and in the editing world with Ms. Ingrid Bartinique. They were and are:

Website

TortoiseClimbing Webservices™ built this entirely new responsive, interactive website to replace its initial 2003-4 static website.

The initial website was built with HTML4.01, when CSS2 was only a recommendation, and not widely or uniformly supported by browsers. There was no server-side programming, and thus no contact page. Only rudimentary client side programming generated by the FrontPage web building software was included.

In contrast, this new, interactive website is built using:

New enhanced HTML5;
Extensively uses the now widely and largely uniformly implemented CSS3, evolving into CSS4;
Server-side programming with PHP7, because it integrates so well with websites. (A more enhanced PHP8 was released in November of 2020.); and
Client side (browser based) programming with JavaScript.

We provide bio information for most artists involved in both Phases I and II of Hymns and Songs for Living because:

While the artists in the 1998-9 chamber orchestra had provided contact addresses and phone numbers at the recording session, it was 20+ years later when efforts to develop this website's credits sought to contact them. Many had moved on to other things in life, and in some cases were living in different places, plus the orchestrator had died;
Efforts to contact those artists 20+ years after the 1998 or 1999 recording session, and find an obituary for the deceased orcestrator, required considerable research and outreach efforts;
Hooray!!! Most Phase I musicians were successfully contacted, plus a detailed obituary for the orchestation arranger and conductor was found. This was possible because a number of the musicians are still involved in aspects of the music business in some way. They reviewed and commented on their bio summaries. Information for a few was found via internet sources. Between those sources, information about most was pieced together. (For the few not yet contacted or found via the internet, placeholder pages are included. Biographical information is still being pursued for the missing.)
There was also the need to gather and edit similar biographies for the new artists (vocalist and instrumentalists) involved in Phase II for finishing the album. (A few have thus far chosen not to provide any bio materials as of 2024.)

K's Pet Care (NO LONGER OPERATING)

For those who remember K --

While a far different activity than recording, publishing, website building, etc., K's Petcare was another aspect of TortoiseClimbing™, representing a somewhat serendipitous or otherwise evolution. K is friends with a then neighbor who established a Pet Care services company. At one point the neighbor needed assistance with her Pet Care business, which led K to review her situation and determine she:

Liked and was very knowledgeable about cats;
She is comfortable with dogs;
She is comfortable with miscellaneous other pets people sometimes have, such as: ferrets; snakes; parrots; fish; etc.; and
She has training for providing various levels of special care, including: injections; pilling; giving fluids subcutaneously; etc.

So, K volunteered to help out the neighbor's company providing such services. Just as other aspects of TortoiseClimbing™ evolved, K's efforts evolved into assisting her friend and other friends, acquantiences and then others. As part of this service, K acquired a variety of additional specialized training and skills in providing care for animals needing special assistance.

Thus, over time the initial volunteering to help grew into K's ongoing Pet Care services, with its own webpage on TortoiseClimbing's™ website, and David assisting.

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After all these, and more, TortoiseClimbing™ was created and evolved into an independent:

What Do You Think?

Were all these: logical evolutions; serendipitous happenstances; destined; or maybe some combinations?

That's the story!

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