The parents of the students asked incredulously, "How ever did you set this up, Helen?" I'd sent Jimmy an email, asking if he would like us to play for him as a promotion for Flutewise. Not long afterward, my phone rang and I heard his jovial Irish accented voice saying, "Let's do it." It was that simple.

I thought the rest of the planning would be simple as well, but this event required a great deal of my time and energy for several weeks, a time of whirlwind phone calls and emails not only from Jimmy. Liz Goodwin, the head of Flutewise in England who gave me so much support, the people at Theodore Presser who distribute the magazine in the US and sent materials, Jimmy's agent who coordinated arrangements, the local production staff who engineered all the details, the box office manager who arranged discount tickets for my students, all did their jobs outstandingly well.

I visited the hall in advance of the concert date and met with the house manager to make sure all would go smoothly. I sent out press releases to newspapers and TV stations. We made a gigantic, colorful banner that said "James Galway and Chapel Hill Flute Students Celebrate Flutewise Magazine." I had to call the performing students several times - all fourteen of them. And of course, we had to rehearse our music.

We only had time for two rehearsals. I gave special thought to placing the students for a balanced sound and placed each beginner on a stand with an advanced student. I stapled the music into matching colored folders. One of the 12-year-olds noticed how neat the music looked and said, "Awesome!" Alison had laryngitis and couldn't play, but she came to rehearsal anyway to learn how to make the pieces more musical.