Holiday shows, like holiday CDs, are produced during the summer. Ornaments was no exception. Almost all of the songs and stories were set to go by August 31.

Then came September 11.

Joe felt he was the one person in the mix who could still contribute something which would respond to the fact that the holidays would be different this year. It was a difficult task. How do you respond to something so overwhelming? When the idea originally came to him, the idea that all of those souls from deep inside the tragedy would be still with us this December, the number was over six thousand. Happily, at this writing, it's now down to just over four. Still, it is an almost incomprehensible number. A tragic number. A number, as the story acknowledges, which grows when you include all the souls from all the terror all over the world.

Joe's musical partner for twenty years has been Dave Savord. He wrote the music. Dave played and Joe read the piece simultaneously, in Sandusky, Ohio. The Angel Chorus was recorded at WKSU a few days later. Craig Adams directed, Colleen Longshaw sang the solo, and the quartet was completed by Jenni Lou Oaks and Joe Gunderman.

Joe, besides being Ornament' producer, is Production Coordinator at WKSU. He is also a freelance voice, working on commercials and narrations that are heard all over the country. Dave Savord plays a variety of different instruments and composes in various styles. He and his wife author/librarian Marie Savord are cofounders of Digbog Publishing.

Learn more about Joe Gunderman at commercialrecording.com/voice/gunderman.