good eveningnd welcome to our live two thousand twenty one home for the holidays and how exciting it is to be back to live performances.

Tonight's concert is brought to youe here an hour ormance Hall of Purdue Fort Waynd also thanks to our localBS station to home viewers and thrilled we are to be being broadcast across this area.

This concert is a special collaboration ben the orches and the choruses and we're thril to have some distinguisuests with us ining our chancellor, the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and donors .

>> And we are grateful for your for your support all year long.

Thank you very much second half of tonight's concert if y are jus tuning in to PBS .

Thank you so much forching concerts and if you are just tuning in, my name is D William Sauerd and along with my colleag Dr. Bickman is the director the orchestra.

We are delighted that you are here with us.

I want to tell you that the second half of tonight's concerts little lighter in fare.

We have some of your favorite holiday tunes as well as some musical theater pieces.

>> And so without further delay, Dr. Kevin McMahon we've come to your favorite part of the evening when you get to sing along with u and I'm a singing teacher so I'll be watching it is truly our delight to have gotten to put onhis performance for you this evening and it's not just Dr. Mn and I.

They've been working hard to makehis happen.

There are so many people behind the scenes that I can't name them all or I sound like I was in t Oscars.

But I do want to quickly say big thanks to Bruce Haines and Tom Todd Grimes of PBS's Susan Delmar Tom Wn, Lisa Zirkel, Dean O'Connell, Dr. David Steffen's all the folks at BFW whoe concerts like this possible and it's really a joy and an honor to work with all of you with that I want to wish you all very healthy and happy holiday season.

We hope tonight's concert has ushered in some joy and peace for you and please for one last time welcome to the stage my amazing colleague Dr. Kevin McMahon