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March 6, 2020
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To my dear friend Vince Jonas

~ forever ~
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In the spring of 1993 you drove your VW from Mt. Iron to Baltimore for the last concert to be performed by the Annapolis Brass Quintet.  If it were anyone but you, such would be considered an unbelievable show of support and friendship.  For you, it was just what you do.  Just one of the countless priceless gifts you have given to each and every one of us who will love and treasure you forever.
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​So Vince, here is a brief snippet from that
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Farewell Concert in Key Auditorium at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
April 25,1993
 
 Opening Fanfare & Closing Benediction
 


This live performance recorded by WBJC-FM 
Anniversary Fanfare (1991)  

  ​by Keith Snell (b. 1950)
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Keith Snell  is a composer, arranger, educator and trumpeter in the Los Angeles area.  ​His fanfare was commissioned by former ABQ hornest Calvin Smith  in honor of the ABQ's 20th anniversary in June of 1991.

​  "Elam Sprenkle's haunting evocation of Walt Whitman's poem 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' was  performed off-stage, more a closing benediction on the house than an encore."  { The above excerpt is from Phil Greenfield's Baltimore Sun Review }

 Interlude from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1993)
Elam Sprenkle (b. 1948)
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"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul"
​Johann Sebastian Bach

Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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is a poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a working day. It is one of Walt Whitman's best-known and best-loved poems because it so astutely and insightfully argues for Whitman's idea that all humans are united in their common experience of life.​

Tap Here to Read  Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 


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 - Dear Sally - Dear Vince - My dear friends - I have loved you for 60 years - I shall love you both forever -
David
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