Yesterday was the 2nd annual retreat for the Circle City Ringers. We spend the first half of the day talking, going over our goals for 2008, and hashing out some details for rehearsals. Then the second half of the day was spend rehearsing. With lunch in between brought in by Panera. Mmmm….

We looked at some music that we’ll be playing at the Spring Ring festival in Cincinnati at the end of February and we started working up our newest favorite piece: In The Mood, arranged for handbells by Hart Morris, who is one of handbells’ favorite composers/arrangers of challenging music. He’s captured the original “In the Mood” very well and translated into a playable-yet-challenging arrangement for handbells. All the little sax solo bits are there and everything! Should be a load of fun! And I can’t wait to get it learned so we can take it up a notch.