Pinnacle

January 2002

Odyssey! 

Orlando, Florida

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We used video from our space-themed Odyssey! concerts in June, 2001 to audition for a Headline concert at Pinnacle 2002.  Pinnacle is a national conference for community and professional handbell groups sponsored by AGEHR. We were delighted to be selected as the Saturday night Headline concert!  This year the conference was held in Orlando, Florida.  "Warm weather, sunscreen, Disney World, Universal Studios, and Pinnacle, here we come!"

The logistics of moving equipment from Seattle to Orlando was daunting and required much advance work.  Just prior to traveling, we used garbage bags, a handheld sealer, and a shop vac to suck the air out of all of the foam for more compact shipping.   After using bodies for squishing the air out of the bags, we tried using long, heavy bell cases, not pictured.  The garbage bags, once compacted were stuffed into base bell cases. We exchanged technique stories with Glenn Hascall while in Florida!   HE had a higher power shop vac than we did!

		One of these smiles is not like the others.  :-)
Shirley Lindberg, Matt Winningham and Jonathan Acker	Same Trio

Shirley, Matt and Jonathan, with the addition of, hmm, well, Loren!

Ringers arrived in Orlando from Monday through Thursday. Patrice, Brenna and Jennifer adorned their room with leftover Christmas decorations that Brenna later used on her Klingon Warrior costume and with 7 cases of bells.  Jennifer is shown discussing (cell phone home to her Mom) Brett Boone's three year, multimillion dollar contract with the Mariners.

Our rehearsal space (also kitchen, laundry room, party room, movie theatre, and sleeping quarters) was cozy.  In order to get to bells, some of us had to crawl under the tables.  Some changes of positions during rehearsal of pieces required running out into the hall, through the other door and then crawling under the tables!  Darn, no pictures of that!  The therapeutic ironing board and iron are shown where they were used most, the director spot.  It took three irons to satisfy Jonathan!

Meighan Pritchard and Brenna Lehman were selected in an All-Star choir with director Hart Morris.  We enjoyed the classes and variety of concerts on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  Saturday afternoon we began to setup for our Saturday evening concert.  

		Patrice Briggs under the stage.  What happens when you plug this in??  The lobby WAS rather dim during our performance.
Jonathan Acker and Ben Wearn

We used a shell to improve the acoustics which is what you see just behind us.  It seemed to add a space ship effect, appropriate for our Odyssey! concert. 

We're watching!		Brenna Lehman on flute for Saturn's Ring
Ben Wearn on bass.    To enhance the space-theme of our Odyssey! concert, during the second half, we all wore costumes depicting some sort of alien, astronaut, or well known science fiction character.  Matt Winningham came zooming out as young Anakin Skywalker pretending to be pod racing.  Ben Wearn ran wildly about, impersonating Robin Williams as Mork.  Judy Jetson was the most difficult to guess, aka, Jennifer Vangolen. See all the costumes in the section just below.                                                     On the right, Ben Wearn, Nan Beth Walton, Scott Barker and Brenna Lehamn, still off-stage, rang the Theme from the X-Files. On Sunday we returned borrowed equipment and transferred equipment out of the hotel.  We returned to cold, wet, snowy Seattle and our own warm beds!
	Liesl Mordhost tying down equipment for travel.
Brenna Lehman, Meighan Pritchard and Jennifer Vangolen return to Seattle.

Pinnacle January 2002

Odyssey!  Costumes

Orlando, Florida

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Liesl Mordhosrt, aka a kidnap victim from Area 51	Brenna Lehman,aka a Klingon Warrior	Meighan Pritchard, aka an Astronaut
Ben Wearn, aka Mork from Ork	Wendy McPhetres, aka Princess Leia	Scott Barker, aka Chewbacca
Matt Winningham, aka Young Anakin Skywalker	Nan Beth Walton, aka an Alien	Patrice Briggs, assimilated into the Borg collective Click to see what's really behind the Borg

              Not Pictured, Obiwan, 2 aliens, a Nasa Engineer, Judy Jetson, and  Darth Vader.  

 Christmas 2001 Photos