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please feel free to submit any ideas you have in the form provided at the bottom
of the newsletter. Thanks for stopping by.
Some of you have may been
wondering if the promised cd by The King's Court would ever be delivered. Some
of you who visited our website to download Christ, Our Savior Songbook as far
back as 2000 may not even remember that you had ever visited The King's Court
before. In the last 6 years, request were made for demos that I could not
fulfill simply because I did not have a finished cd. The truth is, without a cd
many people do not take ones music seriously even with songbooks. Even so, I am
thankful that without a cd the Lord has blessed this ministry so that other
churches over the years have been using some of these songs in their services as
noted by the fact that I am receiving royalty checks. People for a long time
told me that people need to hear the cd. Well, now there is one. I hope they
were right all along, and I hope that "His Name Is Jesus cd" takes
this ministry to a new level. Friends of mine who have heard the cd have
commented that if people could just hear it many would buy it. We'll see
if they are right.
An enormous amount of work went into
this cd, far more than I expected. I am very happy with the results, and the
help I had from other vocalists & musicians, however most of the work was
done by myself. The jobs that I took on in my spare time for this project
included: recording artist, musician, sound engineer, producer, songwriter,
arranger, mixing technician, effects specialist and mastering. Many of these
jobs I knew little about before beginning. This cd is probably a lot different
than most cd's because the process I went through to create it is uniquely
different than most cd's nowadays. I first wrote the songs as lead sheets in
books, arranged the songs in different books with vocal harmonies, instruments
& percussion, used midi files as an aid, and then track by track recorded
the score with vocals & real instruments (some sequencing). This process I
hope will enable other churches to reproduce this cd in their churches if they
have the musicians. Through this process I was also able to create a wide range
of products for churches to use. The idea I have always had is that I want to
make products so that any church no matter how huge with a full orchestra or
small with say 50 people & no musicians could still use my songs
effectively. Viewing our products/descriptions page should enlighten you as to
just how that can be done. Anyway, it's time to say farewell, thanks for
stopping by and exploring some of my thoughts with me. If you have any ideas or
suggestions, please feel free to write them in the form below.
Sincerely,
Will Goldstein
P.S.
A prayer concern that I would also like to share with
you is that last year I was diagnosed with lymphoma, but a recent pet scan after
chemotherapy and radiation has
shown that there is no cancer. I do however always seem to have health issues.
Last year I wondered if I would be dead by now, but by God's grace, here I am, still alive. Thanks again for stopping by. If you know any church leaders who would be
interested in this newsletter feel free to copy and paste the link below
into an email and invite them to come and read it. I would be very interested in
knowing if other church leaders such as yourself have any comments.
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