Youth for Understanding
Chorale Alumni
Making Memories Thru Music
Make Plans Now for 2010 Reunion!
June 26 - 27, 2010
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.
By popular demand - plan to come to our next reunion on June 26-27, 2010.
Stay tuned! More details will be coming soon.
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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.
Interview with Robert Pratt has been Transcribed!
In November, Day Best transcribed an interview with Robert Pratt. This is a wonderful Oral History of the years he conducted the Choral. It includes 14 pages of riveting stories and adventures on chorale tours as only Robert Pratt could tell them - part Indiana Jones, part James Bond - our own Maestro recounts the highlights of the tours and the special people he has known along the way. You can read it here.
As a special gift from the Alumni Chorale, Day has sent a black, hardbound book and accompanying CD set to Robert Pratt this week (She is also sending the same to the Archives of MI as a gift from the Alumni Chorale).
Day has 3 dbl CD sets of the Oral History audio made up, if anyone wishes to purchase it. The cost is $12 each set. We have 2 dbl CD 50th Reunion CDs left. They are also $12 ea. Members can make checks payable to:
Day Best
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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