Musician and singer
My husband Gerry and I have been a part of several bands, put together with friends with matching musical interests and tastes throughout the years. I sing and sometime play keyboard or bang a tambourine, I love coming up with complicated harmonies. Musical highlights/highs:
Our band incarnation that was called "M-Music" (M=Mensa, get it? Really clever, huh?) worked on The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for months leading up to the 20th anniversary of its original release ("It was 20 years ago today...") and played the entire album live for an invited audience. We had help from a really talented synthesizer musician who filled in all the blanks that we couldn't perform live with synth. Lisa got hold of a set of Tabla for "Within You, Without You." We bought, made or rented the closest we could find to Sgt Pepper-like costumes and it actually worked! It was very cool!
The last incarnation of our band was self-named "Band in Boston" and we spent probably the last 2 years of the New England Annual Gathering planning period putting together, culling, selecting and rehearsing 3 sets of music to play on the last night of the gathering. We filled a hotel ballroom with listening and dancing friends and other attendees, many of whom didn't realize until they got a closer look, that the band was made up of many of the people who'd also worked on planning and running the convention. When we finished, the crowd stomped and hooted and called for more! Us: "We don't have any more! That's all we rehearsed!" Crowd: "SO? Just do it all again from the top!" Again... what an amazing feeling!
Our band incarnation that was called "M-Music" (M=Mensa, get it? Really clever, huh?) worked on The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for months leading up to the 20th anniversary of its original release ("It was 20 years ago today...") and played the entire album live for an invited audience. We had help from a really talented synthesizer musician who filled in all the blanks that we couldn't perform live with synth. Lisa got hold of a set of Tabla for "Within You, Without You." We bought, made or rented the closest we could find to Sgt Pepper-like costumes and it actually worked! It was very cool!
The last incarnation of our band was self-named "Band in Boston" and we spent probably the last 2 years of the New England Annual Gathering planning period putting together, culling, selecting and rehearsing 3 sets of music to play on the last night of the gathering. We filled a hotel ballroom with listening and dancing friends and other attendees, many of whom didn't realize until they got a closer look, that the band was made up of many of the people who'd also worked on planning and running the convention. When we finished, the crowd stomped and hooted and called for more! Us: "We don't have any more! That's all we rehearsed!" Crowd: "SO? Just do it all again from the top!" Again... what an amazing feeling!