boston brass (was Re: Music project)

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At 02:33 PM 9/3/96 GMT, you wrote:

>>Before I was saved I was a music education major at Berklee College of Music
>>for a couple years. 
>
>With Brother Denver Stanford, who evidently worked on campus at
>Berklee. 

Yep. Bro. D.L. Stanford, Sr. was and still is the senior pastor of the
Boston UPC. During the early 80s, the campus ministry flourished under the
Assistant Pastor. While many Boston campuses were "targeted" (Harvard,
Boston U, Northeastern, MIT) only at Berklee did they have any real measure
of success. I think this was largely because the charismatic Assistant
Pastor was himself a former professional rock musician and could relate
quite well to the students. Through most of the 80s a large portion of the
Boston church was made up of former Berklee students. I was exposed to the
UPC through the campus ministry during my sophomore year (83-84). 


>My friend Norman Eberle from PA, but now married to an
>Apostolic in Long Island and attending chruch there was a percussion
>student at Berklee.

Sorry, I don't think I knew him.

>Do you remember coming to Milford, CT ?

I never really was officially a member of "Boston Brass" so I didn't "tour"
with them, but I did write for them on occasion. Actually I think I did some
of their first arrangements in church before they were even officially a
group, which I suspect started the whole thing. Hey, where's my commission?? ;-)

I don't think I've been to Milford (that's on the southern coast of CT,
right?), but I have attended a couple of Connecticut district camp meetings
in Great Barrington, RI. This was a few years ago, when Sammy Stewart from
Jamaica was speaking and the place was jus' jommin', mon! :) I liked it!

>That would be at the time just after I came into the church. Boston
>Brass visited with us one evening, which I enjoyed a great deal.

'Glad to hear it. Not everybody appreciated them. In fact, several of the
local folk thought their music was pretty insane! :)

Blessings,
Charles