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Wendy Sent on 10/30/2009
5 out of 5 rating
Robert did a beautiful job!!! We highly recommend him. Since the majority of both of our families and many of our friends have musical backgrounds, it was very important to us that our ceremony music would be very polished and professional. And that is what we received from Robert Hanson! We booked him after having listened to just a few clips on his website, and never actually met him until after our ceremony, so it was a bit of a leap of faith. But it was totally worth it! We were concerned that the size of the church would make his job difficult; since it would take the bridal party only about 20 seconds each to walk down the aisle, we needed him to shorten the selections and seamlessly transition the music to a logical-sounding end point based on when we arrived at our places. Robert did a great job adapting the music to fit our actions! His timing was perfect, there was never a gap where we were standing there waiting for the music to finish or start. And his performance was flawless. He was great to work with, very good at responding to phone or email queries, and he arrived at the church early (and well dressed) to check out the area and set up. In choosing our selections it would have been nice if he had more samples to listen on his website, but from the list of possible selections he provided, we found videos of other guitarists that gave us an idea of what the various songs would sound like on the guitar. Robert had suggested we use a phrase from Lagrima as the Matron of Honor's processional, and it was a great choice! He even ad-libbed it a bit when it took her longer to start on her processional than we expected, but he made it sound like it was meant to be that way all along. The bride's processional, Bach's Air on the G String, is usually 3 minutes long, but he made it fit the 20-second processional perfectly. As the bride and groom we didn't get to hear any of the prelude music, but we got a lot of great comments from our guests. We wish we could have heard more! Perhaps the best compliment we could pay to Robert is to say that after the ceremony our mother/mother-in-law, who initially had been quite skeptical about our choice of classical guitar for the ceremony, told us that if she needed live music for an event she would book Robert Hanson. And we too would book him again in a heartbeat!
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