Grace Under Pressure

Come early as lunch tickets sold out last week.  This week's Tuesday noon concert features Playin' Truth at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Cohasset.  

Last week about 350 appreciative audience members turned out at St. Andrew's to hear The Ophovens.  Due to Elizabeth's hospitalization, the Family had asked to be absent from the scheduled Aug. 4 concert.  

 Fortunately, the Committee was able to relay Molli Ophoven’s communication of better days ahead that morning, and Elizabeth was scheduled to be released later Tuesday.  Since then The Family  has requested a concert next summer when medical issues have been resolved.  We apologize to those of you who came specifically to hear the Ophovens, and we thank those of you who stayed and participated in the substitute concert. 

 From Saturday noon through Tuesday noon, the Committee scrambled and appealed to their friends.  And fifteen local musicians stepped up.  The Tuesday Concert Committee greatly appreciates musicians Maria Annoni, Katie Benes, Irene Eckert, Lenora Evans, Eileen and Gracie Grosland, Niels Henriksen, Susan Loeffler, Jim Mason, Carol Morrill, Jonathon Shields, Staci Taylor, and Mary Jo Wimmer.  Most of these folks were able to rehearse Tuesday morning at 10:00, but a few (because of job restraints) simply slipped in and performed.   Together the group delivered a dynamite performance at 12:00.

       From the opening number “Amazing Grace” to the closing number sung by a standing audience singing “America, the Beautiful,” the Tuesday Tuners delivered a polished vocal and instrumental program worthy of broadcast.  How incredibly rich the Grand Rapids’ community is to have so many wonderful, generous musicians who exhibit such grace under pressure.