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How DVD Duplication Can Increase Your Audience’s Loyalty

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    I need cd and DVD duplication for the low? Wassup ?
  2. Seek cheap DVD duplication and ye shall find!

  3. DVD CD duplication services are located in practically every city in
    the USA. So how do you know the company you are choosing is honest,
    dependable and the best value for your money? Often, the companies
    promising discount dvd duplication aren’t giving you complete pricing.
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    I am looking for an affordable DVD duplication service that can offer me the following:
    Duplicate 1 master DVD (we hold all copyrights)
    Price points for 500, 1000
    Include color DVD label
    option for paper sleeve.
  5. Imagine wanting to do a church dvd duplication project for your pastor and going to the board and getting approved for one price, and then being hit with all kinds of set up fees and rush fees that significantly increase the price you pay. It’s probably safe to say neither the board nor your pastor or going to be happy about that.
  6. CCI Solutions is the only company that offers a fast 3 day turnaround for short run dvd duplication without any hidden fees. They’ve been in the bulk dvd duplication business for as long as DVDs have existed and their expertise lends itself well particularly to Christian musicians and church pastors who want to reach a wider audience and create a memorable message.
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    What is the diffrenece between CD/DVD Replication & Duplicat
  8. Cheap DVD duplication companies usually put your product on cheap low-grade DVDs that aren’t going to stand up to use over time. You worked hard producing your content, do you really want to take the chance the it’s going to be copied and packaged in poor quality materials? CD duplication-DVD replication services from a reputable company will put your music or message out there to your fans in the best possible way. Make sure you ask a lot of questions about cd duplication-dvd packaging-replication before you sign on and just let any company do the project for you
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  10. Here’s a checklist of questions to ask before you choose a company:

    1. How long have you been in business?
    2. What kind of blank CD or blank DVD will you use for my project?
    3. Are there any setup fees or other fees? For what and how much?
    4. Is there a rush fee? How much?
    5. How long will my project take?
    6. How much is shipping?
    7. What is your proofing process?
    8. What if I’m not happy with the results? What is your return/refund policy?

  11. Your audience will be remember your performance 80% better if they are given a recording. Stay in their hearts and minds by giving them a high-quality representation of your work.

  12. Have you had experience, good or bad. with cd duplication dvd replication services? Do you record your worship music or sermons and make them available to your congregation?

How Often is too Often for a Church to Celebrate Communion?

  1. Is it possible to Celebrate Communion too Often?

    The first thing I found was a very old writing by a Greek Orthodox priest named Macarius Notaras from the 18th century. He advocated that Communion should be taken as frequently as possible. He stated “To receive Communion the usual two or three times a year is good and
    helpful, but to receive Communion more frequently is far better.” He even went so far as to point out an irony in that we feed our bodies two or three times a day, why do we restrict feeding our souls to so few time a year? This surprised me a little because I expected a priest from such a strictly liturgical would give a far more rigid answer, but that wasn’t the case.

  2. Are there differences in the frequency that congregations celebrate the Lord’s Supper based on denomination?

  3. The next item I found was a discussion posted on Chuck Warnock’s blog “Confessions of a Small Church Pastor” -  that basically just asked the open question “Communion: How often is too often?” Again, what i read there surprised me. The readers, almost all from non-liturgical churches, posted some really interesting comments. For example, one reader posted “I’m usually not a traditionalist, and find that I lose meaning by doing
    something so often it becomes commonplace; this is probably a function
    of my age. But communion is one of those rare exceptions. The more
    I’ve come to celebrate it, the more meaningful it has become.” As a lifelong Episcopalian, I find it really interesting that non-liturgical churches are showing so much interest in celebrating Communion more often than quarterly or once a month.

  4. Does the Bible say how often Christians should Celebrate Communion?

  5. Since I talk to so many Christians about their Communion supplies every day, from both liturgical and non-liturgical churches, I’ve seen and heard about many different approached. I’ve even talked to Christians who take Communion at home every day. My first instinct, because of my own background was “You can’t to that!” But the more I reflect on it ,and the more stories I hear, have made me realize that anywhere and anytime is right for Communion, as long as my heart and mind are ready to receive God’s blessing. Check out what writer Jody Sullivan had to say to a reader who asked:

    “I grew up in a church where communion was something you only did at
    “church” (unless you were dying!) but what can you tell me about what
    the Bible says about being able to take communion at home with my
    family.




    Does the Bible say this is possible?”
  6. How often do you celebrate Communion? Do you think it’s often enough? Do you think it’s too often? Do you think it’s possible that it loses it’s “specialness” if it’s done too often?

    Post a comment – I’d love to know what you think!

Believe it or not: Twice as many people in the USA would rather have a CD than an MP3

  1. Churches large and small are still using custom printed CDs to pass on
    messages to their congregations and communities in a fun way.  Businesses are still using them to promote new products and bands are still using them to sell to fans.

    CDs are the gift that keep giving, which proves that even in an
    increasingly digital age, consumers will respond to quality content and
    strong perceived value, even if it comes in a physical package,” said
    Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis at NPD. “The
    CD still has a powerful attraction for both older, mainstream consumers
    who listen in their cars, as well as to super fans who enjoy owning the
    package and assortment of songs from their favorite artists.”  Read the complete Press Release from NPD here:

  2. CCI Solutions and 3 Day Discs have always been proud of their knowledge in this area. CD duplication and CD replication are standard processes used in the CD copying market for more than 20 years. CDs in particular are very durable, which is why they’ve occasionally popped up in coaster advertisements.

    It is far easier to copy data, or duplicate onto a CD than to replicate
    it. This is because duplication is a far simpler process  Replication  means using a glass master disc & multiple ‘stampers’ along with mould
    injections. It costs more and takes longer.

    CD duplication is extremely fast and can often be completed  the same day. 3 Day Discs and CCI Solutions actually promise a blazing fast 3 day turnaround with no rush fees.

    Once the CD duplication or DVD duplication process is achieved, customers often ask for CD printing & DVD packaging options. This can include a wide range of fully customized services including 
    graphic design consultations and the production of samples
    to be displayed at crucial board meetings.

    3 Day Discs boasts a large 10,000 square foot storage warehouse and
    distribution facility. Projects are available to ship with the standard 3 day turnaround time at standard rates or via UPS expedited shipping to almost anywhere in the world. Providing a ‘one stop’ shop mean customers spend both less time and less money completing their projects.

    For more information on the advantages of particular duplication
    techniques available from 3 Day Discs please feel free to contact them
    either by phone: 800-562-6006 or via the website CCISolutions.com

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    How It’s Made: Compact Discs

Eva Cassidy: A Songbird Who Flew Over the Rainbow

by dana TAN

The passing of Eva Cassidy at the age of 33 from melanoma was perhaps the loss of the greatest folk/jazz/R&B female voice of the last 50 years. When interviewed in 1996 by journalist Richard Harrington Bruce Lendvall, then head of Blue Note records said “The first time I ever heard her was in my office. She sang an a cappella `Amazing Grace’ and I was just nailed to the wall. ..

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Eva Cassidy – Fields Of Gold (The Original Montage 1996) Blues Alley Washington DC

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Lendvall continued, “I made a very bad mistake. I should have signed her. . . . She was a kid. Who knew?” [quoted from http://evacassidy.org/eva/harr96.htm]

Eva was a shy, extremely private person. When listening to her sing I am always reminded of the saying “still waters run deep.” She refused to be categorized and stuffed into a genre box by record executives. This might have made it more difficult for her to land a record deal, but this was Eva, and she could really sing anything.
Eva Cassidy Web Site

Eva Cassidy Web Site offers information about the late singer Eva Cassidy , including articles, photographs, interviews, artwork and more.
In her one and only performance Live at Blues Alley in Washington, DC she sang song from all over the musical map. One minute she was singing Sting’s Fields of Gold, and the next Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, followed by Louis Armstrong’s It’s A Wonderful World. She especially loved this last song and it would be the last one she would perform in front of an audience before she died

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Eva Cassidy – Somewhere Over The Rainbow

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When Eva Cassidy was nine, around the time family moved from Oxon Hill to Bowie, her dad gave her a guitar and taught her chords. Hugh, who plays bass and cello, formed a family ensemble with Eva and her younger brother, Daniel, now a professional fiddler in Iceland. Sisters Margret and Anette could sing, and the Cassidys used to entertain at family gatherings.

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Eva Cassidy – What a Wonderful World

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“At nighttime we would sing together with my dad orchestrating,” says Margret Cassidy Robinson.

Eva spent hours in her room teaching herself guitar and listening to Stevie Wonder, Pete Seeger, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Ella Fitzgerald.


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Eva Cassidy – Time After Time Live

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When Pandora radio first came out I tried and tried to create an Eva Cassidy and could never get any of her tunes to play. Now five years later an Eva Cassidy channel is actually possible, but they still have trouble figuring out what to play next.

I totally understand. When you listen to Eva, it’s hard to listen to anything “next.”

Igor Leschishin: Fluent in Oboe

Igor Leschishin came to the USA in 1992 from The Ukraine to participate in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Institute of Chamber Music. When I met him then we were both part of the Wind Quintet Air Craft and he barely spoke any English…

While playing in Milwaukee, the members of Air Craft used to have great fun kidding with Igor and his difficulties with the English language. Heused to routinely confuse the words “boss” and “bus,” frequently  referring to the supervisor at his part-time job as his “bus” and then tell us he rode the “boss” to work. He accepted our teasing with great humor.

Igor Leschishin, Oboe
Igor Leschishin is the principal oboist for the Washington National Opera Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, a post he has held since 1998. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Leschishin served as a member of the oboe section in the New World Symphony Orchestra (Miami Beach, FL; 1996-1998) under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Our year together as a Wind Quintet culminated in a performance in the Finals for the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City where we performed Joan Tower’s Island Prelude as part of our program. It was a piece overly ambitious for us as a group, but not for Igor, who handled the immense virtuosity required of the oboist with impressive finesse.

The next year Igor was accepted into the Manhattan School of Music to study with the renowned Joseph Robinson, former principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic where he played for 27 years. Immediately after completing his Master’s Degree, Igor won a position with the premiere American training orchestra The New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Caspian Monday Music – Chamber Orchestra
Caspian Chamber Orchestra – July 25, 2011Alexey Shabalin, concertmaster Igor Leschishin, oboe Andrea Breitenbach, oboe performance at 8pm, Hazen Union Highschool, Hardwick

Musicians in the New World Symphony are given room and board and a stipend and generally play in the orchestra for a maximum of two years. Igor’s stay was extended to a third year and immediately upon leaving the orchestra he won the principal oboe position with the Washington National Ballet Orchestra, where he has been ever since. He maintains a busy concert schedule playing chamber music in the off season. Below are links to some upcoming concert dates. Most recently, Igor and his wife Anna Bennewig became proud new parents of a beautiful baby girl.

Amy Winehouse Dies at 27, will Lindsay Lohan be Next?

Tragic death of a young entertainment diva leaves few surprised. Lindsay, are you watching?

Sometimes people are hell bent on destroying themselves, for reasons none of us understand. Often, it’s the brightest most creative and innovative people, like Amy Winehouse, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jean Harlow and Heath Ledger. It’s hard to lose people who inspire us when they are so young.
Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” For a lot of musicians just replace the word “power” with “money.” It’s likely that Amy Winehouse would still be alive if she’s never made it big. Why is that? 
The tragedy for artists like Amy is that often. when they make it big they are surrounded by people who are living off of them. Because these agents and professional “handlers” are so dependent on the artists to whom they are attached, they profess to really care. When it comes time for a true intervention it’s an agent or a record company trying to do it. That’s ridiculous. An intervention only works when someone who truly loves you, is at the core of it.
Amy, like so many others, didn’t have that. Or, if she did, they were shoved to the sidelines so that stakeholders could manage their “product.”  We’ve seen it so many times with Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen.
Yet when it really happens, somehow, we’re still shocked. 
God be with you Amy. May you find the peace and love on the other side that eluded you here.

Weird and Tiny Opera Company Survives Recession

I played principal flute for the Ohio Light Opera Company the summer of 1991. 20 years ago I had just finished the coursework for my Doctoral degree in music from the University of Illinois, and I was hungry for a performing gig…

The Ohio Light Opera
The Ohio Light Opera is the Resident Professional Company of The College of Wooster • Freedlander Theatre
Surprisingly, there really was no repertoire list. I had cut my teeth on many productions, many of them much more challenging so I wasn’t worried about the technical aspects of the music. Harris asked me to just bring in five orchestral excerpts and a movement from a concerto. I picked standards: Scherzo from Midsummer’s Night Dream, opening to Afternoon of a Faun, the solo from Daphnis and Chloe, Leonora Overture [Beethoven] and the flute solo from Brahms’ 4th Symphony, plus the first movement of Mozart’s Concerto in G Major.
Review about a weekend here! http://t.co/UFU1GUn
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I got the gig. I was ecstatic because it really was my first “playing gig” that was more that a per-service one shot deal. Unfortunatey, the ecstasy wouldn’t last
When I arrived in Wooster I discovered that for the $1200 they were paying me for the entire summer I would have to play a grueling schedule. We rehearsed 8 different productions. We would rehearse from 8:00am-12:00pm one show, 1:00pm-5:00pm another show and then we would perform a show from 8:00pm-11:30pm. Yes, 11 1/2 hours of playing a day
The Resident Professional Company of the College of Wooster: A Celebration of the Ohio Light Opera (Studies in … http://amzn.to/j0fHhQ
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July 19, 2011

About the Tan Post

Launched in July 2011, The Tan Post is aimed at filling a void in online news blogging. Focused on issues concerning the Arts, Artists and the state of Art in America, it serves up news about funding, performances, performers and arts organizations in a new insightful way.

Founder Dana Tan spent twenty years as a classical musician, performing as Principal Flutist with the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra, the Pamiro Opera Company, the Terre Haute Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony and the United States Army Field Band in Washington DC. Settling in Mansfield, PA to raise a family, she fell in love with all things Internet and earned a Master of Science degree in Internet Marketing with Highest Honors from Full Sail University, where she also won the Course Director’s Award for Branding and Storytelling. The Tan Post was an opportunity to marry the two great interests of her life into an online publication that would rally artists and art lovers to protect great art from dying in America.

Ballerina Melissa Hough goes from Principal Dancer to Unemployed Dancer to Soloist with the Houston Ballet

Recently featured on the cover of the April/May issue of Pointe Magazine, dancer Melissa Hough has had quite a wild career ride in the last year.

When Melissa Hough was a kid at dance school she was told she would never be a ballerina. She was told a lot of things like “you don’t have the right type of body” and “you are just a better jazz dancer.” Well, I’m sure she’ll love them to see her now! And, for the price of a ticket, you can now see her dance as a soloist with the Houston Ballet company. 

Melissa Hough, Soloist – Houston Ballet
BirthplaceBaltimore, MarylandDance TrainingKirov Academy of Ballet, Washington, D.C.Dance Explosion, Glen Burnie, Maryland Defining Moment: Those rare performances when you feel you succeeded in having the audience understand what you were trying to say to them.
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She’s freshly promoted as The Boston Ballet’s first soloist. And her choreography rocks the house. But if her former ballet masters had their way, Melissa Hough would be nowhere near the Citi Wang Theatre stage. You don’t have the right body, her teachers at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington told her.

2010 was a tough, but maybe a defining year for Melissa. After being passed over for many classical roles and a failed romance, she decided to enter the Helsinki International Ballet Competition. Dancing the technically challenging role of Aurora in the Act I Variation from Sleeping Beauty she came home with the Bronze Medal.  

Melissa Hough
Melissa Hough . Welcome to my website! You can use this site to find information on where I've been, where I'm at, and where I'm going. Enjoy! …

Knowing that something wasn’t right in Boston, where she had been part of the ballet company for over 5 years, Hough took a chance and decided to move on. She sent a video to Houston Ballet artistic director Stanton Welch, whom she had only met once. Apparently, she must have made a big impression, because the next thing she new she was moving to Houston. Be sure to catch Melissa’s next performace with the Houston Ballet. the 2011-2012 season begins September 8th with the program Return of the Masters

Houston Ballet
It’s the next step in Houston Ballet, a season highlighted by a new production of the classic Giselle, staged by the respected Russian ballerina Ai-Gul Gaisina. The 2011-2012 season is accented with world premieres by Stanton Welch and Nicolo Fonte, and the Houston premiere of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes by Mark Morris.