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The Choir

Sixty voices, three hundred seats, and one truth the spreadsheet keeps hiding, which is that the alto section outsells the internet.

Exhibit A

You have a Mrs. Voss

Every chorale does. She is the retired teacher who brings six friends to Messiah. Here is what Fay keeps on her, assembled from nothing but the box-office CSVs you already have.

The Voss household
In the book since 2014
2015
First Messiah. Two seats, bought at the door.
2 seats
2017
Brings four friends to Lessons & Carols.
6 seats
2019
First gift, folded into the ticket envelope.
$50
2021
The quiet winter. This is the row a spreadsheet loses. Fay flags the lapse by February and puts her on your morning list.
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2022
One note, one call, six seats held by the aisle.
6 seats
2024
Year-end gift, thanked in a week, receipted in January.
$600
Eleven winters, one pageYour best ambassador

No data entry produced this. Three ticket imports and one question answered did.

Nothing is saved until you approve the preview.

How her page got built

Monday, the box-office export goes in

Eventbrite, TicketTailor, the folding-table cash box. If it exports a CSV, Fay reads it by name. Repeat buyers are matched to the people you already know; strangers become new pages; nobody becomes a duplicate.

Merge, link as a household, or not related. Your call, never Fay's.

The patient part

“E. Voss” and “Eleanor Voss” meet at last

Eleven winters of tickets arrive under four spellings. Fay lines the candidates up side by side and asks. One click, and the history flows into a single page, including the six friends, linked as the household they already are.

Raised, retained, returned, season against season.

The part the board sees

June, and proving it worked in one page

“How did this year compare” stops being an afternoon of tab-switching. Donors kept, houses filled, and how many concert-goers became donors, the number a development chair actually asks for, ready before the meeting.

Eleven winters
of attendance, legible under one name
One page
per household: tickets, gifts, and conversations
February
when you hear about a lapsed row, not November

Sing to a fuller house

Import last season's ticket CSV tonight; meet your own Mrs. Voss by the second cup of coffee.