This spring, The Sumner Pops Orchestra will be holding 4 consecutive concerts in the middle Tennessee area to benefit worthy charities.

Monday, April 2nd, 2007- Community Help of Trousdale County
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 - Big Brothers, Big Sisters Springfield, TN
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 - TBA
Thursday, April 5th, 2007 - Community Housing Partnership of Williamson County
 

For Immediate Release
 The Sumner Pops Orchestra, in cooperation with _(sponsor)__, is pleased to present to you the musical/dramatic presentation, peppered with wit and humor, This Day in Paradise—a whimsical journey and exploration into the Afterlife, featuring the ClazzyO Ensemble, along with author and humorist, Jonathan Richard Cring.

        On ___(date), the ___(location) will come alive with the sounds of triumph and the message of hope during this special springtime and Easter extravaganza. 

        “We have blended the best in pop/classical music with visual special effects, great songs and words to deliver a forty-four minute celebration of life as we know it and life as we dream it to be,” shares Janet Clazzy, the conductor of the Sumner Pops.

        This Day in Paradise is written and composed by Mr. Cring, a recipient of a Billboard Music Award, author of eleven books and recent honoree at the Cackalacky Film Festival as a screenwriter.  All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the __________(sponsor).  For more information, you may call (615) 826-3871.

        Jonathan Richard Cring, a native Ohioan, but more recently a resident of the Middle Tennessee area for the past fourteen years, is the author of the new musical/dramatic presentation, This Day in Paradise. 

        Mr. Cring is the author of eleven books, fourteen symphonic works, thirteen screenplays, a recipient of a Billboard Music Award, and an honoree at several film festivals in 2007.

        He has traveled the country for the past four decades presenting his humorous and whimsical insights into life in our times with a strong emphasis on the blending of inspiration and entertainment. 

        In the 1970’s he worked with Andre Crouch and the Disciples and wrote a song recorded by The Singing Rambos.  He also authored the book, The Gospel According to Common Sense and penned the popular musical, Mountain, an adaptation of the Sermon on the Mount.

        In the 1980’s, he traveled the country with his family and began writing novels, with his first release entitled I’m…the legend of the son of man. 

        In the 1990’s to the present, he has continued to write books and has been a co-founder of the Sumner Pops Orchestra, composed numerous symphonies and more recently has become a prolific screenwriter.

        This Day in Paradise is a theatrical adaptation of his book, Preparing a Place for Myself.  “It was a dream I had one night about what life might be after we cease to be, and from the dream I generated this wonderful tale of the beauty that lies within us and beyond us,” cites Cring from his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee .

        Jonathan Richard Cring—meshing the finest of the reformation and the renaissance.

 The Sumner Pops

The People’s Orchestra with a Heart for the Community

         Conceived in the minds of Janet Clazzy and Jonathan Richard Cring back in the summer of 2001, the Sumner Pops Orchestra enters its sixth year of operation with a new vision for doing even greater and more creative events, while still maintaining the integrity of a mission of providing great music and great entertainment to greatly benefit the charities and needs of our community.

        Having launched last year a series of “Satellite Concerts,” which feature the ClazzyO ensemble from the Pops, the orchestra continues its pursuit of finding the newest and freshest sounds in great American music, while using the concert revenues to aid and assist worthwhile organizations, school programs and burgeoning works geared to the charitable demands of the citizenry.

        Including in their very busy schedule school concerts to elementary and secondary education students—some thirty-five thousand last year alone—with a wonderful program entitled Jan’s Plan, a history both of music and the power of diversity, the orchestra has begun to spread out to other states, each one expressing great interest in the creative approach that the Pops takes toward communicating age-old concepts and just the general beauty of art and music.

        Under the capable direction of conductor Janet Clazzy, the orchestra fosters support for budding artists and composers who often find it difficult to break into the traditional cycle of symphonic or even pop-oriented markets. 

        “We are about music and music is about freshness of ideas, and ideas are always about changing who we are into something better,” shares Ms. Clazzy from the Pops office in Hendersonville , Tennessee .

        The Sumner Pops—an original concept meeting traditional needs.

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