Western Caribbean

Hart Morris, clinician

Bells of the Cascades alumna Judy Schumacher shares this memory from our early Handbell Cruise.

For our cruise leaving on January 4, 1997 we decided to ask Hart Morris to travel with us to be our first guest clinician. This was the first massed ringing event that we did. We sent out 3,513 bulk mailing advertisements to Areas 1, 2, 5, and 7 and 285 to our previous cruisers. Our classes consisted of Making Music with Morris and solo/ensemble classes. This was the first open concert with the massed ringers presented to cruisers outside of our own participants. We held three forums plus a Directors Roundtable. Our own BOC concert was a little lighter in nature and consisted of a few Hart Morris gems. Hart was wonderful as a guest conductor and we made the decision to continue to ask well-known conductors to travel with us. We had 176 cruisers, including BOC members and two from Travel Marketing.