| Brent,
If you aree in Baltimore I assume you know Donald Sutherland. I'd ask him, if I were you, what the best strategy (website/mailing?) would be to crack other venues. You might be able to buy a mailing list from a national organization like the AGO. Personal contacts, naturally, are far better.
As for a CD, this part is easy but you'll have to plan ahead. Find a good recording engineer (it can be somebody young from one of the colleges that knows ProTools and has access to good mics) and book a session. Be sure to choose an organ on the floor to record with, if possible -- it's hard to hang mics in an organ loft and the schlep up and down with equipment whistles backwards. After you've created a finished master, go to Staples and buy one of those inexpensive label making programs (perhaps somebody here will suggest a name?). CDs are almost obsolete, even as business cards, but I expect that it will still be two or three years before church music directors become web savvy enough to glean what they need from your website (plus CDs can be listened to in a car -- a BIG plus in someplace like Los Angeles)
Good luck,
EC (sunny and 70 today -- eat your heart out!) |