April 27, 2004 at 3:09 PM

So my husband has told the church we've been attending that I play the violin and have been looking at music to play at church. Now there's a way to get me to practice. We're becoming members and e just thought our pastor should be told. I have stage fright. My whole life I thought I'd overcome it and go on to public performances. I'm fine with ensembles ad orchestras, just not solo. So I'm going to have to switch gears and work a little more on the more sacred music I've found and maybe a little less on Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I have a nice arrangement of Handel's For Unto Us a Child is Born and plenty of music by Bach that would be church acceptable, so I'm not worried about finding the music, just playing some in front of two services. Another person in our new members class is a violin teacher! I haven't met very many string players since I've moved out to Minnesota. One of the pathologists I worked with was one and a coworker played viola, but only in the "oh ya, I played viola in high school" sort of way.