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If you haven’t hard an alphorn before, here’s your chance! There are only a few more days to go until Saturday’s Alzheimer’s Benefit Concert. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, we hope you’ll come along!

More information about the concert, written by organizer T. Paul Rosas:

Date and time: Saturday, October 3rd 2015 at 3:00pm

Place: LAUMC Sanctuary, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos (at the corner of Foothill Expressway and Magdalena)

This year’s concert includes compositions by two of the Bay Area’s favorite composers, Sondra Clark and Brian Holmes. Sondra’s piece, “That Time of Year” is a setting of one of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Anne Janzer sings it beautifully. Brian Holmes will demonstrate and play the Alphorn for us. He has written two delightful pieces, “Amazing Grace” for Alphorn and organ and “Twilight in the Alps” for Alphorn and vocal trio. Casie Walker, Anne Janzer and Mayo Tsuzuki are the trio.

The program also includes a groovy piece for jazz organ and percussion, played by Paul Rosas and Dylan Damonte; evocative piano and organ duets by Dirk Damonte and Paul Rosas and the extraordinary dancing bells of Bay Area handbell duo, Larry and Carla Sue. The program will end with a “Jig for Handbells and Organ” written by Paul Rosas that will have everyone dancing.

It promises to be unique and entertaining event given to support the ongoing research into Alzheimer’s disease as well as the home services provided by the organization. Please invite your friends and family to come. It really is going to be a special concert.”

Admission to the concert is free, but a collection will be made to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. If you can’t come to the concert, but would like to support our fundraising efforts for this important cause, please visit our Walk to End Alzheimer’s fundraising page and make an online donation there.

The Distinctly Bronze West concert is tomorrow! We’ve been having fun rehearsing some exciting music at the Hilton Hotel, here in Portland, Oregon. It’s been an opportunity to perform on one of the largest sets of handbells available. Bill Payn has been our director for this event.

The concert will take place at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower, in downtown Portland. Tickets will be $5 at the door.

If you’re a handbell musician and you didn’t get the opportunity to participate in this year’s event, you should come to the concert. You’ll be able to see what you missed, and consider taking part in a future event! If you don’t play handbells, or you’ve never heard a high-level handbell performance, now would be a great opportunity. Some of the music will be traditional pieces; music that you’ll recognise and want to hum along to. Other pieces have been written specifically for this instrument. They aim to demonstrate the beauty and excitement that handbells can convey so well. This year will be your opportunity to hear Larry’s arrangement of the exciting Brazilian piece Tico Tico no Fubá. The handbell musicians will be performing this piece on 7 octaves of handbells and 3 octaves of handchimes!

If you’re in the Portland area, we’d love to see you at the Distinctly Bronze West concert!