CD

guys,

I just talked to Tomas, and I think he is willing to do that. There is a couple of important aspects.

1. we need to have songs picked by next week. I am suggesting Sunday as a dead line for any suggestions. Please think of songs that are simple, and familiar. The most complicated song should be "What a Day That Will Be".

2. Ika and I will work on getting piano pre-recorded and sent to Tomas, so he can do a background. If you have any suggestions to the background music, please let me know. I will be communicating with Tomas, so let coordinate it. I want to prevent any heat discussions on what yes, and what not.... I suggest we don't use drums, and ask you that we will not make it an issue. We have differences in opinions, so I want to be sensitive to this issue, and let's do it without. I hope you support that. But if there is anything else, please let me know. Tomas won't be able do do anything during summer months. We need to work on it quickly.

3.Under certain circumstances we could have our CD ready for the concert. My original thought was to make just a few CD's, but I realized, that people will like it, and they will be interested to make a copy, therefore, why not to sell the CD's after the concert. We could cover partially the expenses with production of the CD.

4. We could record our voices here in US and send the material to Tomas. He would mix the voices with the music in fall. If we couldn't record it here, we still could do it in Czech, but we would need to do it on Mon or Tue morning. In that case the CD would still be available after the concert.

5. Ticket prices are always subject to change, but I don't expect the price to drop much below $600, so if possible I'd like to encourage Kamil to be in Czech for the dinner on Tue. And if we need to record it in Czech then, we need to be there at least Mon night so we can record on Tue.

6. This leads me to the point of practice. it is very important that we meet. We need to coordinate our schedules. If Eva will come in April, we need to know when, because after 21st of April I will be in Czech. I think we need to make a decision if we are doing the CD and how much we can sacrifice. The idea to record a Cd is great, but we need to evaluate if we can do it. I hope to hear more thought on this topic.

7. I don't know the cost, it depends on how we do the recording. Also we need to decide what is the cap.

Have a great day

Rene