We just made a big investment for a small gadget. It's a portable digital recording device. It is brand new and cutting edge and can do a ton of cool stuff! We plan to use it for several upcoming projects.

One thing that this new addition will enable us to do is to record any events we play and make professional CDs from these events.

We are planning to start recording at least all of our wedding ceremonies and making complimentary CDs (complete with a professional case and album art) for our brides. I think that will make a very special memory for many of our clients!

It just gets busier and busier around here as the holidays approach! We are almost completely booked up for December with holiday events and concerts. It looks like it will be a lot of fun!

Aside from that, I have recently completed an arrangement of The Beatles' song, "Eleanor Rigby" which is a favorite of mine.

Our arrangement of Nimrod by Sir Edward Elgar turned out SO well and we have already enjoyed playing it. We played it at a wedding and it worked very well as part of the ceremony. Many people complimented that piece in particular so we were very pleased.

It was a difficult piece to condense for string trio because it is very texturally thick in the harmonies, but with a few (okay, a lot) of well placed chords for each of us, it works! Wonders never cease...

This weekend we hope to record some more clips so please continue to send us your requests!

Also this weekend we have two weddings in addition to two symphony concerts for which to prepare so we won't be able to do a whole lot! We will do our best though and hope to record at least Nimrod if not a few of our other new arrangements.

We are excited about the upcoming holiday season- busy as it may be, it is always a special time of year.

We've added something new to the wesite! It's an event map of many places in which we've played. Most are in and around Chattanooga, but if you scroll out you'll discover a few other places including Toronto, Canada! I'm pretty sure that I couldn't remember every single location, but there are a lot there.

We're still tweaking some details on it, but it's pretty cool!

In other news, we're preparing for another wedding ceremony tomorrow in addition to the CSO Opera Performance taking place tomorrow evening!

The couple that is getting married tomorrow requested Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations. I worked up a custom arrangement of it and I'm so excited because it is such a beautiful piece of music. I think the arrangement turned out really well. Next time we do a recording session I'll see if we can add a sound clip of Nimrod by Sir Edward Elgar.

As always please tell us if there are any songs you would like to hear. These do not necessarily have to be on our repertoire list! Just comment here or email us with your suggestions. If it is within our power, we will record it for you!

Our next recording session will probably be in a couple (okay, three) weeks when we finish our slew of October/November weddings and have a little more time.

We also need your input regarding our website! What improvements would you like to see? What features would you like added? We have a couple projects in the works, but we would love some ideas as to what would be the most practical, useful, and fun!

Please comment here or email us any suggestions, ideas, or requests that you might have!

This past Saturday was so busy that during our rehearsal we just decided to not attempt to record any additional clips. No one had requested any so we spent that time learning new music. It was time well-spent!

The wedding ceremony went really well Saturday evening and the drive was spectacular. The leaves up on Lookout Mountain are breathtaking!

I have still been busy arranging new music for us. Today I have just completed Waltz from "Serenade for Strings" by Tchaikovsky. This weekend I also finished the Scherzo Theme from String Quartet No. 2 in D by Alexander Borodin, the opening theme from Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky, and Theme from Jurassic Park by John Williams.

These latest arrangements have turned out really nicely which is good since they have taken a considerable amount of time and work. Reducing orchestral, piano, and quartet scores to string trio isn't always easy, but it's fun and definitely worth it!

I have been busy booking weddings (ceremonies and receptions) for next summer! Don't despair though, there are still dates available. Just call or email to ask about our availibility!

We usually try not to book weddings more than 6-7 months in advance because of symphony schedules and such, but so many have been asking about next summer that we have gone ahead and started booking weddings for May, June, and July of 2007.

If your event or ceremony is more than 7-8 months away you can still have us "pencil" it in our calendar to hold that date for you and we will contact you when we can officially "book it." This arrangement has worked out well for many of our clients and this helps us out because our individual schedules (Chattanooga Symphony, school etc) aren't always announced that far in advance so we have to hold off on unknowingly double-booking ourselves.

I spent most of the day yesterday arranging new music for us. I think I arranged around 10-12 pieces so far. Most of them are classical and I'm not sure yet how useful they will be. We'll find out tomorrow when we get together and try playing them!

I did a custom arrangement of the theme from "Jaws." I am a huge fan of John Williams and it was a lot of fun to work on, but I just kept thinking "Who will request this song!?" I imagined what it might be like played as a bridal processional and laughed to myself. It will never be requested for a wedding (and this is probably a good thing) but what could it be requested for? A party? Not likely. Anything else? Not likely. So I suppose that we will simply play it only during our jam sessions for our own amusement and entertainment. Sometimes it is fun to do that.

A couple other pieces I added are, "Minute Waltz" by Chopin, "Liebesfreud" by Kreisler, and "Trio in C" by Mozart. Today I am working on an arrangement of "Piano Concerto No. 1" by Tchaikovsky, "Minuet in G" by Bach, and the theme from the first movement of "Symphony No. 6" by Tchaikovsky.

We get together again tomorrow to rehearse for a wedding and to record some more clips. Please let us know what you might like to hear added to our audio clips! I will be checking our email and comments here during our session tomorrow, so feel free to comment or email.

What clips would you like for us to record next? 

Our page of audio clips is new and improved! Thanks to our webmaster for getting this all fixed, set up, and working so quickly. The page has a fresh new look and more importantly, all of the clips play properly. Check it out!

We've added even more selections to our list of repertoire!

We have several new Baroque arrangements from more obscure and unusual composers such as Charles Wesley, Samuel Wesley, Thomas Arne, William Hamilton Bird, and J. H. Fiocco to name a few. These pieces are light, airy, and graceful. Very elegant and classy!

We have also added a few selections of folk songs to the mix. They are beautifully and uniquely arranged for string trio and include (among others) "Shenandoah," "Sourwood Mountain," and "Loch Lomond."

The other selections that have been added are Celtic. We have long needed more Celtic music as many have requested it. We enjoy it a lot but haven't had a great selection of it up till now! We now have quite a few very nice Celtic arrangements including "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," "Morgan Magan," "Dance to Your Shadow," "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose," and "Highland Cathedral."

We are so excited to be able to add these amazing songs to our repertoire. We'll be learning and practicing them faithfully in the next few days. Soon sound clips will be in order!

The website is still experiencing a few bugs and glitches. It is so frustrating! We're so sorry for any frustration or inconvenience it might be causing.

For the good news—We added a ton of new Audio Clips and still have a few left to upload! We added some fun ones too like "Linus and Lucy," "The Pink Panther," "The Entertainer," and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." These are some of our non-classical favorites! My favorite clip that we added, however, is "Largo" by Corelli, which is just a beautiful piece of music. We all love to play it. All together we recorded about ten new clips! It was a very productive session for us.

I apologize if these clips don't work for you. They haven't been playing properly for me on this machine, but I don't know if the problem is my computer, the browser I use, or the clips themselves. Our webmaster says that they will play for most people and I hope he is right! If it doesn't work for you though feel free to drop me an email (adonia.trio@gmail.com) with your address and I can send you a demo CD with all of our clips on it.

On Saturday we got together to rehearse for a wedding (Congratulations to Raquel Goncalves and Donnie Smith from Cleveland, TN) we also recorded all of our new clips.

It is so much fun to get together (in my dining room- ha!) and record our favorite songs. We don't have any cool high-tech equipment (I wish!), but we do the best we can and rig up a (borrowed) microphone and plug it into our computer. It seems to work okay so far! At least you get a very good idea of how we actually sound live.

We usually have a wedding every weekend and we rehearse on Fridays and Saturdays for our weddings and to learn new music that we are continually adding.

If there are any songs that you want to hear, just tell us and we'll record it during our next rehearsal!

The wedding that we played on Saturday was at the North Cleveland Church of God. We've played there before, but this time we decided to take advantage of the beautiful church and take some pictures after the wedding. The pictures are now posted in our Photo Gallery so take a look. I especially love the (artsy) shadow picture!