About TortoiseClimbing

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TortoiseClimbing™ is now multifaceted, consisting of:




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.

Details about the currently available products include:

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.

Other versions of the hymns and songs album are in planning, as:


For details see Versions.


Other early recordings are in process of being prepared for release.


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:

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


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:

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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-- So --

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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