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If you did not know before you walked in, you probably believed that this is Jonathan's last concert with St. Spartans and he's retiring after 32 years from the faculty. 164 semesters. So thank you for your indulging us in just a moment of celebration. There are alums from this organization who have taken time and training to be here tonight. We would like to start making your way to the stage because we will be stating your lights on water. Meanwhile, the play from the board and an integral member is representing the city's partners. Hello. All right. My name is L on behalf of the choir, I just want to say thank you doctor for this wonderful choir happen. I have been singing with doctor Reed every Monday, Wednesday for an hour and a half for the past four years. I have seen him more than I've seen my mom in college. It's crazy. Yeah. And so, I spent one fifth of my livelihood, you know, it's crazy. He spent one 50th of his life. But we all appreciate everything that he's done for us. And it's been truly an amazing thing to watch the fire grow. From four years ago, you know, after we had ten people, maybe 16, everyone's six feet apart, and now we've grown this world fire. So thank you all for coming. Thank you. I Thanks to John Lily. John was a member of this organization in 1996 to. Sorry, one of the jitters of seeing Doc's happy I forgot that the choir actually maybe Roger, we all decided to, you know, Doc a gift. So we all signed MSU Halon And we were pretty control level. That's this is highly organized. I would like to introduce John Lilly was a member of this organization 1996-2 thousand 1998. 1996 to 2000. I wrote down my remarks to make sure that I stay brief. I'm John Lily again, a member of the club 1996-2 thousand. I'm what I would describe as music adjacent. I'm a music lover, unquestionably. I grew up in a family of very talented musicians that appreciation of all heights. I've also often referred to my voice as a quality ensemble voice. I don't. I'm certainly not a soloist, but I imagine that Shen strong, for example, 100 other male voices. I count myself for those reasons among what are probably tens of thousands of non music cs, non musicians and non parts that were fortunate enough to have my life remarkably impacted by what essentially amounted to 410 to 530. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the first bo of music practice. I'm not going to bore everyone a long list of stories, some of which I may not remember anyways, but I'm going to give a couple of examples, but I think might resonate with a few of them. My freshman year, a veterinarian graduate student tragically passed away and club was invited to be a part of a memorial service in the same W Trump at her memorial service outside of the veterinarian P campus. And at 18-years-old, I arguably had during that simple time, very good experiences that had introduced me at that point to how fragile life can be and being a part of the mourners that day impacted and helped shape my life. My song a 17 day tour of Central Europe, a 20-year-old that hadn't even been to Canada before, staying just steps away from Box, more or less taking over in an evening wine festival with our sound, touring a Nazi concentration camp, leaving with a truer understanding of history beyond that our own country called Shape me. Junior, after the fourth and final time of issue this part discourt did not being accepted. I went to doctor W and at the time I membership of the discourse as a measure of talent value and certainly popularity. Doc had what he might not remember, but what I remember as an extraordinarily valuable conversation with me about self awareness, self confidence, and helped me to understand that my tools might be better used elsewhere with mir, et cetera. That was my last Yeah. But Doc helped redirect and framed what I perceived as a failure into something that helped shape again. And then lastly, my senior year, we went to and it might get some of the details wrong here. We went to the ACDA regional thing in Chicago where Doc used to club as a workshop of sorts, if I remember with ACDA National Chicago one in 1995. And we performed Beatles A with another ensemble concert I'm not a musician. But I do remember midway through that he's doctor O and essentially went and sat down because the music took over. The two ensembles were listening to each other, and that was, for me, the single most powerful musical experience, magical experience that I've ever had. And just to this day, I get pumps thinking about it and I've never been a part of something as beautiful as helped once again. Shane, like I said, none of these are about music on notes for a person like me. These are experiences that go far beyond the musicality of that. Because of that reason, I want to on behalf of you thank doctor Reed for the time and the life lessons and otherwise impactful efforts that you put forward to those of us who don't make a career for a life of music. So thank you very much. Thank you for in me a couple of minutes. I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't tell you that in that spirit, I want to let go of the establishment of the doctor Jonathan Reed Choral Programs Endowment Fund of Mythology Music at Michigan State University. My wife, who is the College of Music Senior Development Director, Annie Linley, and I are honored to be among those who have been the person to pledge a contribution to that endowment. There's a QR in your program this evening and you will most certainly be hearing from the University's best development officer. My wife earlier. I would encourage you to consider supporting that endament to continue the legacy ing You guys. It, fight fight fight. Time, fight, fight, fight. No. All right. Okay. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay.
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From MSU Music Events August 18th, 2023
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