 to be personally and for us as a musical organization. There are many things in our lives, also part in it, divide us and make it difficult to connect as a community. And this is one of the things I cherish the most. It's almost, to me, not quite Christmas. I'm totally pleased to have you all here with us. It's also very important for us that we repeat this work each year. And I can tell you that since we started this every single year in this year is no exception. The chorus, the orchestra, the solos, bring a greater understanding, a greater love, a greater knowledge of this music. And I can tell you that the rehearsals we've had the past few weeks putting this together have been a real joy for me. And the work we have to put into it seems to get smaller, but the awards we get out of it become even greater, and that's a real joy for me as a musician. I also would like to thank our hosts here at Holy Name, the people at this congregation who have been wonderful to help us in every way you can possibly imagine. There are quite a number of them, but I did want to recognize by the Dan Sanders, who not only loves his church and the community, but he also loves music very much. So Father Dan, please stand and think about it. I was mayor. That was not happening. Don and I were talking. That type of meeting was not happening. When I knew I had to reduce by two important things to five or six years, the relationship between Lakeland College and Sheboygan Symphony has grown into me, become a really wonderful relationship musically and personally for me. Most of the or many of the educational things that we do with the Sheboygan Symphony involve Lakeland College. All of the guest artists that come and sing or play with the Sheboygan Symphony give master classes at Lakeland College. We do our pop's concert there. Young artists can share their competition to name just a few. And I really enjoy the college. I enjoy the students very much. And also the faculty, there's one special faculty member. Janet Herrick is the conductor of the Lakeland College Chorus, as you know, as part of the Sheboygan Symphony Chorus, and she trains the Sheboygan Symphony Chorus. I could not be more blessed to have such a wonderful colleague both musically and personally. I'd like her to come up and conduct the next chorus.