by P.L. Grove Last summer I focused my article around the question of why handbells? My answer was centered around church handbell choirs. But I’ve had a concern about the need for music in our schools for quite some time now, and handbells are the perfect medium....
by P.L. Grove You’ve no doubt seen that phrase on several materials promoting our National Seminar this summer in St. Louis, Missouri.For those of you (likely young folks) who don’t know, it’s a reference to the 1944 musical of the same name, which made the song...
by P.L. Grove This is one of the questions I get asked as president of Handbell Musicians of America. My colleagues and I on the national board of directors have noticed that many of our members assume that the national board functions exactly like the area boards,...
by P.L. GroveNow before you get all defensive over the use of the word “geek,” let’s define it, shall we? And I choose to use THIS definition: A knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast. Or when used as a verb: Be or become extremely excited or enthusiastic about a...
In April, a member of a Facebook group posted about her church handbells. She said that, while her church used to have three different bell choirs in the 1990s, they now have one group that has recently dwindled to a quartet. As a result, the pastor posed the question...
