Good news - we have approval to have a CD of the choirs professionally produced! I'm in the midst of acquiring mechanical license rights for the copyrighted songs and getting initial tracks together. We'll be selling them for $15 each. I picked the title "Raise the Lamp" from the Lambuth alma mater; that line refers to the lamp of knowledge, a symbol of academia that's found on the university seal. (I'd been toying with "Will Sing for Potluck" as a title but didn't think that would fly with the administration.) The front of the CD cover will look something like the image here.
The school is floating our choir budget a loan for the production costs, which we'll repay from sales income. If every choir members sells 3 (actually about 2.56, but it's hard to sell 56% of a CD!), the project will be paid for. All sales beyond that will be profit going to the choir. Once you sell your three, you'll receive a free CD with accompanying promotional poster.
We'll need to do some more recording next week to make sure we have really good takes of everything. Once we submit the final master to the company, turnaround is only 7-10 days, so we should be able to release the CD by the end of January.
