My calendar for 9 November points to the first known recording of classical music, a performance of Handel's "Israel in Egypt," in 1889. It was made on a wax cylinder, using Thomas Edison's invention. The date for this event was actually 29 June 1888, and I am correcting my calendar appropriately. But it's always appropriate to celebrate music, so I'm wearing my eighth-notes tie today.
The small eighth-note pin on my collar is engraved with the letters "E. S.," standing for the name East Siders, a high school singing group from Allentown, PA, which I was part of from 1967-1971. We were sponsored by the Lehigh Valley chapter of Youth for Christ. We sang at churches and schools in eastern Pennsylvania, and our summer tours took us to many churches in Florida, Texas, and Ontario, Canada. YFC had an annual conference in Ocean City, NJ, and in 1968 our mixed quartet (with me as tenor) won that singing competition.
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