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Dr. Dennis,

It’s 9pm at night and I should be packing up my apartment getting ready to depart Jacksonville Florida and return back to Chicago. However, Mahler 5 started blaring out of my radio and I just got excited! I know that piece! In fact, I know just about every note of that piece. I started to remember back to all those wonderful Saturday morning in Ft Sheridan rehearsing with some of the best musicians in the Chicago area. I wanted to let you that I enjoyed every minute of it. The lessons learned at MYA are life lessons that I take to heart every day at work & in college.

This was my first summer since I was 16 away from Ravinia Festival. I received a last minute call at the end of April from the Railroad CSX to come down to Jacksonville Florida. I helped their network planning group with simulation modeling that they’re doing to plan for high speed rail, and new freight traffic. However, working indoors in the heat of Florida is very different than the cool summer evenings outside listening to the CSO at Ravinia. I simply miss classical music.

I hope you had an excellent summer. I believe MYA went to Germany this summer? I look forward to the next alumni concert. And don’t be too hard on the Bassoon section. They really are paying attention.

-Sam Sogin

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