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Current and Planned Recordings from TortoiseClimbing: Overview

• Annapolis High School Choirs of 1959, 1960 and 1961:
  The Crucifixion - (Free download of mastered and restored audio file from 1959)
  • Choosing a download file format
  • Download Process
  • Playlist and Performers
  • Lyrics and Performers

• Hymns and Songs for Living - (Final Mastering completed - Sept 2023)
  • Playlist
  • Cross-reference Of Artists
  • Kathy Brigman Haupt: Composer and Writer, "Welcome Home"


• Companion audiobook from eBook, History Through 26 Hymns and Songs
  • Advanced Podcasts (beginning Fall 2023)
  • Audiobook (2024)

• Kathy's Songs - (Kathy has additional scores, but is reluctant to have them recorded)
  • PLACEHOLDER for potential Playlist for Kathy's Songs

• Nostalgic Solos- (Initial private release to friends and family was 1992. Plans are to update via post-production, possilble augmentation and remix for public release, target late 2024.)
  • Nostalgic Solos - Playlist
  • Placeholder Document for Companion publication

• Romantic Duets - (Draft - No date for next steps)
  • PLACEHOLDER for Playlist for Romantic Duets

Details for Hymns and Songs for Living

• Credits for Work Completed in Phase I
  
  
  • Heidi Gerber-Salins: Producer - Phase I
    • Credits when at Bias (as of 2001)
  
  
  • Dennis Benjamin: Acoustic Guitar
  
  
  • Phase I Arrangers: Overview
    • Heidi Gerber-Salins: (Vocal-Harmony-Arrangements)
    • Heidi Gerber-Salins: (Cymbals)
    • Heidi Gerber-Salins: (Timpani Arrangements)
    • Bob Walters: (Arrangements for Chamber Orchestrator & Conductor)
  
  
  • Brass: Overview
    • James Bittner: Trumpet
    • Lindsey Smith: Trombone
  
  
  • Celtic Harp: Jo Morrison
  
  
  • Flute: Gail Gillespie
  
  
  • Percusion: Overview
    • Mike Griffith & Heidi Gerber-Salins: Cymbals
    • Bob Walters: Mark Tree, Orchestra Tubular Bells & Glockenspiel
    • Heidi Gerber-Salins: Synthesizer Timpani
  
  
  • Piano: Overview
    • Don Kaufhold
    • Bob Walters
  
  
  • Shuttle Pipe: Wayne Morrison
  
  
  • Strings: Overview
    • Claudia Chudacoff: 1^st Violin
    • Diana Fish: Cello
    • Ed Kapusciarz: Viola
    • Cynthia Mauney: 1^st Violin
    • Kim-Miller: 2^nd Violin
  
  
  • Vocalists: Overview
    • Dorothy Gould Gerber: Descant
    • Heidi Gerber-Salins: Duet Partner
    • David Goettee: Lead
  
  

• Credits for Work Completed in Phase II

• Production: Overview
  • David Goettee: Producer - Phase II
  • Bill McElroy: Associate Producer and Sound Engineer - Phase II
  • Heidi Gerber-Salins/David Goettee: Post Production Audio Processing
  
  
• Acoustic Guitar: Overview
  • Jim Westlyn: "Welcome Home," Acoustic Guitar Lead Accompaniment
  • John Creger: "Welcome Home," Additional harmony accompaniment (Acoustic guitar and string bass)


• Arrangers: Phase II: Overview
  • John Creger, Vocal Refrain Arranger: "Welcome-Home"
  • Larry Sue, Handbell and Handchime Arranger ("Just A Closer Walk with Thee" & "Amazing Grace")
  • James Westlyn, Guitar Accompaniment - "Welcome Home"
  • Jeff Whitmill: Descants
    • History of Descants


• How Did Handbells Get Included
  • History of HandBells
  • Notes on Handbell Characteristics
  • Handbells Available by Manufacturer
  • History of HandChimes and How Different from HandBells
  • Westminister Ringers
  • Gordon Masters - Carrol Arts Center


• Choice of Real Pipe Organ
  • James Doering: Organist
  • Scribner-Keeble Memorial Pipe Organ: Details
  • Popularity of Pipe Organs
  • Comparison of Pipe Organs


• Strings Added in Phase II
  • Cello: Matt Treacy
  • Double Bass/String Bass: John Creger
  • About Double Bass
  
  
• Vocalists Added in Phase II
  • Jeanette Creger
  • Jamie Flanagan
  • David Goettee
  • Kelsey Snyder
  • Morgan Stewart
  • Aaron Todd

Companion Publications: Overview

• History Through 26 Hymns and Songs - eBook late 2023


• (NOTE - For Advanced Podcasts from eBook
  See Audiobook above under Hymns and Songs - Recordings)
  
  
  • David Goettee: Author
  • Ingrid Bartinique: Editor
  • Dave Mather: Initial Copy Editor
  • Terry Hamilton: Commenter
  • Nancy Graham: Commenter
  • From Acknowledgements
  • From Preface
  
  
• Kathy's Songs Book - PROPOSED


• Nostalgic Solos Book - Update and public release, Planned for 2024


• Romantic Duets Book - To Be Determined