I did say it would not be another two months, didn't I? Never mind that it came close by inches. I promise to repent.
So, I had become a member of the choir of the LASUCF choir for a while, enjoying the opportunity to 'do' music at all. Then came this week that the choir was preparing for a Friday night programme and Rotimi Mosaku, the keyboardist, was not going to be there - he had church arrangements back at home for which he traveled every weekend. Word got to the Choir Director that I could accompany the choir and so I was called up. Lo and behold, I became the fellowship's second keyboardist that weekend. With that came new responsibilities too - it was more important for me now to be at every service, especially if Rotimi was not going to be there. When he was, I still managed to join the choir, only for a short while longer though.
One of my defining (or shaping) moments in those early days came from the experience I had when I went with a few friends from school to attend a service at Pastor Paul Adefarasin's House On The Rock on a Sunday the church choir was going to hold a concert. It was the first time I would hear about the church or its choir, and I was bought over in that one service - the praise/worship session, the choir song, the Word, the excellence exuded in every activity was very appealing to me. The concert did not take place till evening, but it was a classy event and it was an exhibition of a quality of contemporary music that I had not seen performed live before. However, I still felt there could have been more - by the time the evening had come to end, I sat there thinking, "there should have been more!"
After that 'outing', I started to collect tapes of prolific christian musicians, (mostly foreigners) with Seun Dawodu's help. I also started getting the opportunity of rehearsing with the fellowship's Yamaha PSR-630 electronic keyboard. And now, I had become a 'keyboardist' as well as an organist.
