Aug. 10, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest Kay Purin and Kathy Combs

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250th USA patriotic concert the Masterworks Chorus plus 4 other groups will be presenting at the Kravis Center on October 18, 2026. Kay is going to see if they can bring in perhaps 100 Veterans to see the show and have them sit down front.

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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. It is so

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great to be back for you today. And I'd say

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i'd be back.

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With you and be able to.

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See me and hear me, and I know that you're there,

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and I'm so thankful for you. Because of you, I'm

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able to keep this show going and I will continue

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to do this. My show is called The Sound of Gold.

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If you've been here before, you know my focus is

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on music, musicians, music venues, music teachers, music collegey music schools,

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and composers and anything music related. It is such a

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privilege and a joy for me to do this. I

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am also a piano player. I also teach piano and

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here right now while we are recording live. It is Monday.

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It is Monday afternoon on this evening time. At the

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end of a Monday, and even if you're watching this

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a recording of this, I would like to play for

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you just a couple of minutes before we get into

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our show.

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For today, and I invite you to sit back and reave.

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I hope you are.

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All doing well, and I hope that whatever kind of

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day you've had, that you may find love and peace

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in it and happiness. And I'm so excited today I

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have some special guests with me, and I'm so excited

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that you're here with me to tune in and to

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share with you. You know, I'm going to jump around

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a little bit because this past July, the fourth of

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July here in the United States, it was celebrated. It

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is celebrated for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of

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our country. And that's huge. You know, a lot of

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us have grown up and we I would think all

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of us have grown up with the education of our

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history and.

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Our independence.

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And not to get into politics, because I don't.

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It's just a privilege to be alive.

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In today's day and age and to being a part

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of celebrating two hundred and fifty years. That's a long time.

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And even if we're not that age I'm not, at

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least not yet. It's still a privilege to be a

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part of the celebration. And although July has passed and

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we're in August, the idea of the acknowledgment of two

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hundred and fifty years is still present and it.

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Is so exciting to me that we continue to celebrate

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that through music. And two of my guests today.

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That I'm going to be bringing on they are a

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big part of the master Works Chorus of the Palm

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Beaches here in Florida, and I can't wait for them

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to be here with me to tell you about their

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way of sharing and performing in honor of two hundred

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and fifty years celebration. Okay and Kathy, please join me.

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I know you're sitting backstage waiting for.

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Me and Lisa.

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Hi, k Hi, Katy Hi.

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Nice to be with you and with your listeners.

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Yes, thank you, thank you, and thank you so much

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for making the time for this. And We've planned this

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a few months out and I'm so excited because there

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is so much that goes into this performance and even

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before we get into that, I'm a people person.

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We made a connection through through Ronda, through MT and.

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A, and I'm all about building relationships and getting to

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know you, because this isn't just a job as a musician.

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We don't just do a job. We live our passion.

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And I don't know who wants to go first, but Kay, Kathy,

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choose you girls pick. I would love to hear and

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I would love to share with our audience a little

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bit about your your journey, your musical journey through your

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lifetime that has brought you to where you are now.

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Okay, you, why don't you? CA's been with Masterworks course

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for many years and one of the has been had

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a long professional career, So Kay, why don't you start.

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I'm the current president and I'll take over when Kay

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is finished. Okay, yeah, thank you. Yeah.

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I started my musical career at the age of twenty one.

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I wasn't five like you, Lisa. I started twenty one.

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And I started as an opera singer at twenty one,

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which was kind of strange for most people to think

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of that, I guess. But I went on to sing

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with the opera as a soloist, started in the chorus,

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saying as a soloist for almost thirty years, and I

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also was the musical administrator for the Pompi ch Opera

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under Maestro Anton Guadago.

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I was his personal assistant.

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So I really enjoyed all that time, and then went

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on to do musical theater Phantom of the op From

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Phantom of the Opera to Menopause the musical, all kinds

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of fun stuff. Yeah. But now I decided to join Masterworks,

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and I've been singing with Masterworks for probably eight years now.

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But I also knew the original conductor, doctor Jack Jones,

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who started Masterworks many many years ago, and he was

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a dear friend of mine.

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So since nineteen seventy eight, fifty years, almost fifty years. Yeah, yeah,

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not that that was how long you knew him, but

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that's how long the Chorus was founded by him in

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nineteen seventy eight.

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Now, what an inspiration. Wow, who would have thought it

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would have gone so long? I mean, he what a

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legacy he's left.

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Yeah, and he has unfortunately passed away. And we have

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a wonderful conductor. Now, I'll let Kathy describe Brian Eines

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to you. He's our new conductor. I'll let him describe him.

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Well, the history of Masterworks is kind of interesting. In

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this nineteen seventy eight version period Jack Jones was a

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Juilliard trained organist of some renown and at a certain

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point he was at Bombich Atlantic and then he went

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to the Royal Poinciana Chapel and he started with singalongs,

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Messiah singalongs and our current I'll get to our current conductor,

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but our current accompanist was an early accompanist of master

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Works Chorus when we were at the Royal Poinciana Chapel,

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largely during after COVID, we experienced new leadership and changes

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like everybody did. And last year we hired brought doctor

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Brian Iams, who is a doctorate in choral conducting from

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University of Michigan. He grew up in this area. I

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don't know if he grew up here, but he began

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his teaching in the Southern County high schools and then

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became then he was selected to be trained at the

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University of Michigan doctoral program where he then came back

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and master Works was lucky enough to be able to

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attract him to be our current director of music.

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Okay, so, and he actually lives on the west coast

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of Florida, but he drives all the way over here

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just to conduct master Works.

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That's amazing.

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He really master works, has a reputation and it's a

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very good one, and he felt it would be worth

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the drive to come over or just to.

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Work with us. He's a professor of music at the Golf.

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Coast Gulf Coast College.

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That Florida Gulf Coast University embowered School of Music.

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And I think I'm sorry.

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He comes over every Tuesday to do rehearsals and he

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has brought an incredible experience training. The easiest way for

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me to say it is that the training that he

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received enables him to make a chorus sound much better.

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We train to sing more correctly, and he can make

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dynamics work better interpreting the music. The difference is so

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obvious when you have We loved Taylor. I'm not saying

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anything against kin Taylor, but his training was not in

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the choral conducting field. So it's just been a great

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experience for us under this new leadership.

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That's wonderful and everybody brings something, you know, everybody, everybody

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brings their own nuggets of gold with them.

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And it's totally different from one conductor to the next.

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It's noticeably different. And the wonderful thing about Brian is

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because he has all this fabulous experience because master Works

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is a community chorus. Okay, not everybody has degrees in

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opera or musical theater, and so they don't know, you know,

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so they haven't had the musical training that they but

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he can.

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Bring that out, then he I love that.

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Yeah, he brings out potential that people didn't even know

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they had there.

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Or perhaps my experience is I'm finding more common among

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Masterworks community choruses. Growing up as a little bitty choir

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member in a church, spending all of my youth singing

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in choirs, all of my adult time singing in choirs,

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going to Northwestern's music school, singing a little bit of voice,

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and realizing that I had some talent, but I was

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not going to make a career in music or opera

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like Kay could. So I became a lawyer, worked for

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thirty years, making all kinds of money, singing in the

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choir when I could. But the love of a music

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and of choral singing was always there. And once you've

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sung your whole life, you're going to find another chorus,

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another choir. And I was looking for my choir when

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I came down to Palm Beach County and I found

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it master works as.

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Her lawyer brain comes from here. But you know, as

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a musician and anybody out there listening to this note,

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as a musician of any type that comes from here, Yes,

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the soul and it does not ever go away. It's

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a God given gift and you've got.

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You feel the need to use it.

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I don't care vocal or instrumental, but you feel the

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need to have to share it and use it.

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And what I learned from music school is musicians are

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incredibly smart. One of the hardest professions and most underappreciated

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intellectrict by people in business school and out there in

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corporations managing companies. Musicians are very bright, very talented, very

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hard working and so true. And I can tell you

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that your training is very difficult to pass.

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It is it is.

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And you know, I'm I'm in the space in this

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place of with my show.

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I'm in my second season the Sound of Goals.

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And I focus is on music because I truly believe

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that where we're going. I mean, there's the AI, there's

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there's the technology. Honestly, the passion that that I put

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into keeping this show alive is to say we're going

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somewhere like we're not the bottom feeders anymore, Like we're

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rising above.

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And there's so much study with the brain, and I

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wish I had.

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More time, there was another day in the calendar that

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I could do more research, because the brain is so

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powerful and as musicians, like, we're using parts of our

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brain that the everyday person. Not not being disrespectful, but

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we are using different parts of our brain that that

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are not used by by other people that are not musicians. Sorry,

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my cat moving this so and we need all of

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us so I'm not this is not.

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Expecting anyone, but yes it is. It is needed. Yeah, so, yes, we.

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Are rising above. And what you're saying, let me ask

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you and I'm gonna jump around. I'm sorry, my brain

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kind of works fast sometimes.

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M hm.

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Kathy, you were a lawyer. You are now president.

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Of Masterworks Course, master Works Course.

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How did you come about that position?

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And a very good one, I might say, very very good.

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Well. I joined right after COVID. We were among twenty

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or thirty of us from master Works Chorus were invited

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along with representatives and rather choruses to seeing Beethoven's Ninth

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with the Palm Beach Symphony and it's hard to describe

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what a wonderful experience that was for all of us.

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And so that evening a couple of the other sopranos said,

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why don't you come and replace me as secretary, Kathy,

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you would really enjoyed it. So, with COVID and everything else,

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master Works was struggling, as was everybody else. And when

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I saw the list of performances that Masterworks has done

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done in the last almost fifty years, I looked at it.

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I said, I can help. The skills that I developed

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over a thirty year career in business I think can

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be useful here and I want to be part of

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the team that makes sure that master Works doesn't fail.

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And that's what we have done in the past several years.

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We are a board led organization. Somebody said, Kathy, have

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you considered hiring an executive director? I said, you're got

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one hundred thousand dollars I'll be glad to hire on.

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You're a board led organization largely because we have people

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like me who want to sing and have always sung,

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can bring their careers to bear the skills in training

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they have in music and outside of music to bear

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to manage an organization and we are really going someplace.

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Our revenues have doubled in the past two years. Year

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after year. We're doing development work that we've never considered doing.

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The programming that Brian is bringing, the talent that he

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has brought from all over the country and even from

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South Africa is fresh and new on the Palm Beach

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County scene. So it's very exciting to be a part

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of it. And every time when I'm presenting before a

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panel of funders, they say, you're all volunteers. We have

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a few, you know, outside contractors, and of course the

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musicians we pay, but management of the chorus is completely

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volunteer based.

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I love that.

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But more and more people are stepping up.

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You know.

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Initially it was okay, a couple of you, yo, We'll

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let you go ahead and do what you're gonna do.

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But people are really stepping up and they have great

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talent that they are lending to our management. So it's

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really fun. It's been a lot of fun.

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Now we are live on air and on broadcasting, live

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on television. However, for those people that are not able

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to see us, first off, for those that are watching us,

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they can see Masterworks dot Org underneath our scroll right now.

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But for those that are sorry, I have my cat

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that's wanting my attention.

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She's right here.

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For those of us that cannot for those listening that

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cannot see us, how do they find master Works?

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Where would they go to find out more information?

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Well, we have a website and and that's that's the website.

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The website will have our scheduler performances, and it's linked

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to ticket space and some of the fun, fun things

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that we have initiated to help us raise money or that.

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For example, we'll be doing three performances of Messiah in December,

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three different locations North County, Middle County, South County, and

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one can go on the website and sponsor.

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A song and that's Masterworks PB dot or or if

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you always want to sponsor I Redeemer.

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Of this space and set when she could you can

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for two hundred and fifty dollars end up with two

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tickets medication in the brand for your mother and whatever

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you'd like to say about her. And it's been incredibly popular.

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That's how people buy their all of our performances except

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the first one to which for the Unity Concerts.

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Sure, I'm sorry to interrupt you. I'm not sure.

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The reception is freezing on us and sometimes technology does that,

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so there are different opportunities for people to sponsor master works.

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Just because we had a little glitch in the system,

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could you repeat what you just said, I'm sorry.

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Well, in the website, it's linked to ticket spice, Okay,

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so it will have all of our scheduled performances over

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the course of the season, and you click onto one

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I'd like to go to that one, and it will

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pop up all the opportunities for ticket purchases, but it

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includes these we're referring to as song sponsorships. That has

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proven to be extremely successful. Everybody wants to sponsor the

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Hallelujah Chorus on behalf of their parents for example, or

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something like that. So that's how one buys tickets there,

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and it's all LinkedIn. It's very easy. You click on

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and then you will get, you know, in your inbox,

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your ticket and you're good to go. For the first

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concert we're doing this year, it's called Unity, Love and Brotherhood,

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a choral celebration for America's two fifty, which referred to earlier.

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On that is October eighteenth, at the Cravis Center. We

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are partnering with four other choruses. There will be two

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hundred and fifty singers Wow County on stage singing a

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selection of the first half of it is I believe,

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going to be Americana. Okay, so we're be singing Hallelujah,

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you know, all of those famous American songs, and we're

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inviting veterans and tail address that.

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Yes, I was going to ask about that.

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And then the second part of it is going to

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be songs of unity, brotherhood, in love, and each of

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the five conductors have selected the pieces that they want

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to conduct. We'll also have an organ recital by Adam Brakele,

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who has been acclaimed as the one of the best

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organists in the world. So he's going to be playing

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the Cravis organ for a couple of pieces as well.

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So the tickets for that are available only at the

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box office, the Cravis box office, but they're very reasonably priced.

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One can buy a ticket and it's all orchestra, the

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best seats in the house for one hundred dollars a

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piece or less. So I mean that's tickets. Once you

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talk about the veterans.

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Yeah, the veterans get ten dollars tickets, right, because we

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are celebrating these wonderful patriots for Americas to fiftieth and

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what we have the Cravis actually, I have to read something.

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Lisa Cravis has decided that it should be worded this way.

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All the veterans have to do is called the box office,

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and it says the choruses would like to offer the

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veterans majorly discounted orchestra tickets from now until Sunday, October fourth. Okay,

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this discount will apply to the middle Orchestra Rose d.

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Through n best season.

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The Half Bessie. The discount is only redeemable online using

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the code Brother twenty six. And then they ended by saying,

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we thank you for your service, and it's it's the

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codes exclusively for veterans, and we hope that they will

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ensure joy the show. And so I actually to find

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all these people. I actually I've become friends with Brian Masked,

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our chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Brian is

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helping me to get to all of the veteran affairs people,

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to get to as many veterans as possible. Even if

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it's hopefully, like Kathy and I were saying earlier today,

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hopefully we can find get to the veteran.

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Nursing homes and they will have buses.

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And they can bust them there like they would take

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them to the mall to go shopping, but to the

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Cravis And we're hoping that they would enjoy coming in

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their uniforms and we're doing all the themes of the

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major Service as Marines, Air Force, Army Coast Guard so

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they can stand salute the American flag and sing along

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with us about republic everything, just sing along and enjoy

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the patriotism.

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I'm just I'm so touched by what you're sharing and

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how this is being put together.

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And it's what I.

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Mentioned earlier when I started the show, like were you

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and I all of us we're not two hundred and

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fifty years old, but to be a part of this celebration.

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You know, we're here to make.

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An impact as human beings, and we are we are standing.

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Right in our role to make that impact and.

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To make a difference in other people's lives and to

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be that messenger and that connector. And it's just so

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beautiful what you are doing and what you've invested in

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and what you know, what you're sharing.

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Well, like these people, these people are true patriots that

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made this possible. They fought for this country so that

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we have the freedom we have to have a birthday

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of two hundred and fifty years and the least we

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can do is celebrate them with music. And I think

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that this has made to me that is making this

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concert the best it can be, just by having the veterans.

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So if they just go on the Cravis box office website,

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look for October eighteenth, Sunday, Okay, look for a four

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pm concert. That's the only one there at drunk the

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big four o'clock, so's plenty of room for everybody, and

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then they can get their ten dollars ticket. The veterans

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can and other people. The tickets are twenty five thirty five,

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you know they're they're very reasonably priced. We would love

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many people enjoy the concert as can.

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And that's October eighteen, after Cravit Sunday, October eighteenth, and

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it's four o'clock, so it's early enough for older people

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that you know, can't don't necessarily want to be out

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after dark or whatever.

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They can get through the concert and still be going

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home fairly early.

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So it's it's a nice time.

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I think no is it a two hour show or

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a three hours.

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It's about two hours, yeah.

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Okay, and there's usually an intermission.

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