Youth for Understanding
Chorale Alumni
Making Memories Thru Music
June 27 - 29, 2008
Ann Arbor, Michigan
To all the wonderful people who attended the recent Chorale Alumni concert, Thanks from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful singing and friendship that imbued the weekend with such success! I love you all. Best wishes to you and your families. Please keep in touch with me. Words don't really express my thoughts except to say THANK YOU all.
Look for your concert CDs! They were mailed on 7/29/08.
Didn't we have fun? What an experience!
Share it with others - check out the fun & concert on You-Tube*:
Click here: YouTube - YFU Chorale Alumni Reunion dinner
YFU Alumni Chorale 2008
YFU Alumni Chorale 2008 When Johnny Comes Marching Home
*Recorded by Pat Snover-Tait's ('65,'66) husband
(Note: To check out newspaper articles about the reunion click on the "Press Release" section.)
Message from Bob Pratt:
Cordially, Bob Pratt
(please, everyone, call me "Bob," since we're all grown up now.)
Note: New photo is now available on the "Photos" section!
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Did you enjoy Dan Berry's speech at the concert? You can read it here.
Click Our 2008 Staff for more information on these terrific people!
As in our past reunions, we will spend the weekend having fun, renewing friendships and rehearsing music. For 2008, we again have secured Hill Auditorium for our Sunday concert.
It will have been 50 years since the first Michigan Youth Chorale toured. To celebrate, join our final reunion concert.
We hope you will make plans now to attend!
On a sad note:
** Jill Nelson Becker, '58, recently passed away.
** Earl Bostic ('65,'66) passed away suddenly in Berlin, Germany.
Earl Bostic was born in Detroit in 1947. He studied voice and sociology and moved to Berlin in 1972 after many trips to Europe with several choirs. Here he learned to play the electric and upright bass. He has played in many groups live and as a sought after studio musician African jazz, German jazzrock, American blues, and Jewish Klezmer music. Listen here for his 1966 solo in "Ezekiel Saw The Wheel".
** Mel Larimer, Ass't Conductor for 1960 Chorale, recently passed away. Check the "Memories" page for more information.
Note: Special CD offer! "Sacred Works" - $10 each. Go to CD catalog page for full information.
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