City Choir Valentines

"We had enjoyed singing with Bob for years and started singing with him after
returning from a three year tour in England in 1994. We had taken every
European tour during that time and really wanted to continue singing with Bob.
The Katrina hurricane was really responsible for our being able to help the choir
get started. That year one could give any amount from a 401K or IRA without
penalty and it also was the first year Marv was required to take out a good portion
of that amount because he turned 71.5. It just seemed like a worthy cause at the
time. It was done as a matching grant and the enthusiasm to make it work was so
strong that many choir members chipped in more than they really had to give to
more than reach the challenge. Marv was on the planning board and came home
one night and told me that he had volunteered for me to figure out how we could
sell tickets and subscriptions online so I suddenly had an almost full time job for a
good number of years. With a start of nearly 100 former choir members there was a
lot of enthusiasm to make it work.With that much of a core group, it was easy to
attract the many new members to join us in the last
13 years. The City Choir and the City Singers have
been an important part of my life for a long time.
Marv really felt supported by them during his last
two years when he had to come to our concerts in a
wheel chair and the City Singers came to sing or
people where we live."
A2 Elaine & B2 Marv
Wunderlich
† in memoriam
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