March 8, 2011 YAH Luncheon–Trumpet and Piano Concert

I told everyone that this month we would have a fantastic musical treat, and what a treat it was. We had a wonderful duo of Charlie Pagnard with his trumpets and Dr. Charles Clevenger at the piano.  Both are music professors at Cedarville University.  Charlie is also our music pastor here at Washington Heights Baptist.  That apparently is not enough to keep him busy because he is also First Chair Trumpet for the Dayton Philharmonic Symphony, has his own brass group “The Carillon Brass” and is part of another International group “EuroBrass” who travel the world doing concerts.  We count it a real blessing to have him leading our worship music here at Washington Heights and were very pleased to feature him along with Dr. Clevenger, this month.

You can hear the program HERE!

Charlie is a wonderful trumpet musician and can play a wide variety of music, as he demonstrated.  He plays Jazz, Classical, Spiritual, etc.

Dr. Clevenger is also very talented at the piano and plays concerts all over the country. I would like to also invite him to do a concert for us; perhaps next year.

 

They both also proved that they can speak very well. Charlie always has some entertaining stories to tell. He seemed to play some of his crazy stories down this time.  Perhaps that is because his mother, Betty Pagnard, was in our audience.  Betty is a regular part of our church and Young at Heart. Dr. Clevenger didn’t bring his mom but also spoke very well. I really enjoy hearing about music and some of their tales of happenings on tour, etc.

 

After the concert, we enjoyed a delicious meal of a chicken casserole, carrot salad, spinach salad and Grasshopper Pie. I insisted that the kitchen staff remove the legs before squishing the grasshoppers!  Hey!  I’m teasing and I suspect this is called what it is because of the green bits in the pie. However, we had plenty of rave reviews on the food! There was enough for leftovers and many people took some home.

Our theme in the dining room this month was St. Patties Day.  So there was plenty of green stuff and pots of gold spread around. As you can see here, Ted really got into the season with the green hat from his table!

DON’T FORGET NEXT MONTH WE MEET A WEEK EARLIER THAN NORMAL. OUR LUNCHEON WILL BE APRIL 5, 2011.
We will feature a couple of our missionary families, including some children! Of course, we will also have another fantastic meal!