 I really want to welcome you to our sixth annual Chime Concert. I really, I believe that we're still having as well the very first things that I have to mind here, because as a music educator, it's very difficult to help with young people and to help answer questions for older people and to try to work on your own instrument and then to try to put together an actual recital is sometimes impossible. And for those you know in our community who are band directors, inquire directors, and any number of other workers with students, you know that they work their heads off just all the time. So I'm afraid that we still have this, and not only do we still have this concert, I already have people light up for next year. They were so sorry they couldn't come tonight, so we're really glad for that. And I hope that you tell everybody that you know to come next year, because the quality of it is unbelievable. What I'd like to do is give you the information about those folks who are going to perform tonight. I'd just give you a little bit about them before we start, and then I would be popping up after each one and we'll just let the music play for the rest of the evening. So I'll start kind of backwards with Paul Suckerman. I'm going to give you no call. If you've done anything with T.Y.A., if you've gone down to the high school, if you've gone to a restaurant, no part play, any number of things in this area Paul has done, and he's, what can we say, he's brilliant. He's a brilliant educator, and the students just love him. He's like a diamond for us. He's so talented, as I'm sure you all know, and he's good with children. He's good with every age of student, young kids, older kids, and if you know him very well and you know that and it's ridiculous that he's so talented, he's right there. He loves it when I talk about him. So we just wouldn't have this at all without Paul Suckerman. Next we have, before him, thrilled to have this, Fabian Kamar is a graduate of Lakeland College, I believe, of what is now Lakeland University, and he is the director of the Schwergen Symphony Chorus, and also the younger groups, the Seys Chorus. So we are so glad to have that connection with Lakeland. We are so glad to continue our relationship with the Schwergen Symphony in this way too. And he will be accompanied by Mike Slutsky, who is playing a guitar, accompanying him on the guitar. Mike has his own studio. He's had lots and lots of students, so he's also an educator in Plymouth. So if you need to learn guitar or something, Mike's going to be a question one check. Then we have Trisha Martin, and if you've been to any of our concerts here, you know Mrs. Martin. She is so valuable to us. We are so thrilled to have her as a staff member. She is the accompanist for our chorus. She also helps our music majors to be able to make it through the end of each semester. They have to do kind of a test on their own instruments. So she helps them with that. This is really important that we get that extra set of hands and extra set of ears. And she has a wonderful musical quality for the students and she knows how to express what they need to do. So love having Mrs. Martin here, and certainly to use her talent on the stage. We're just lucky to have that. Finally, I'm really honored tonight because we have had students in the past, our students, on the stage, on the time stage. But we've not had two at the same time. So I'm really honored to say to you that we have two excellent students. And I can tell you they're excellent. I don't care what they do in the other classes. They're in my theory class. Both of them. And in all the excellent students in the theory class. So, you know, I know that they have to be very nervous because they're very in my life. And they are also excellent violinists. But they're not really here for that. They're on this stage tonight to perform for you because they are teachers. They are already starting to share their passion for music, share their passion for the violin with their own students. They're starting to build their own music studios. So we'd like to start with them. Would you join me please in welcoming Ms. Sarah Chronic and Ms. Rachel Rice. I'm very versatile. It is very well respected as a classical composer. He was one of the first to found a formal program to study jazz in 1929 in Germany of all places. Of course I did very quickly once he started to come to power. But this was a very early thing that he was interested in and promoted. He was also very involved in the promotion of folk music from around the world. Similar to Kodai and Bartok, who he was associated with. So this piece is called J'ai de son vie, which means I went astound and just a quick translation. I went down to my garden to pick rosemary. Nice poppy, my ladies, nice new poppy. I hadn't even picked three sprigs when a nightingale laid onto my hand. Nice poppy, my ladies, nice new poppy. He said three words in waxing that men aren't worth anything. Nice poppy, my ladies, nice new poppy. But men aren't worth anything and young men are worth even less. Nice poppy, my ladies, nice poppy. Of the ladies he didn't tell me anything, but of damsels he spoke very highly. Nice poppy, my ladies, nice poppy. Canton Races of Susanna, Mayo, Kentucky Home. This is Hard Times Come Again No More. It was published in 1854 and it's a song about sympathy for those who are less fortunate. Bobby Trub, who is perhaps most famous for this song. The story goes that he wrote it with his wife while they were playing word games on a road trip moving out to LA in California. And this song actually ended up helping to pay for his first house out there. Later, of course, it was made famous by the one and only Nat King Cole, which was my first introduction to it. So this is Read 66. More than 2,000 miles. Gives your kids on Route 66. Postal San Luis, Joplin, Missouri, and Oklahoma City. Lookin' mighty crazy. And Vosto, San Bernardino, won't you? Get hit till it's time easy. And California trip. Gives your kids on Route 66. And California trip. Gives your kids on Route 66. Gives your kids on Route 66. Special audience. Positive of that, but you seem like a very special audience. So I'm gonna play this next tune and towards the end I'm gonna do a little improvisation and you're all gonna help me, whether you like it or not. What we're gonna do is I'm gonna give you some pitches to sing and you're gonna help me do the end portion of this. You're also gonna do some clapping. Not necessarily at the end of the song, but in the song. I will cue you on that. But for now, this next bit is Chikorya's Crystal Silence. We performed on a Flufo phone, which is 25 feet long and it really needs a virtuosic performance because you have to blow in both ends at the same time. Very difficult, but I'm gonna play on a piano. I'm more comfortable. By younger days I could run that far.