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It is time to celebrate a significant milestone in your lives
the life of ?? given to musicians.
This is your day to stop, take stock, and give credit to yourselves.
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Let me be the first to congratulate you. After long,
hard years of study, you've made it.
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You will applaud a lot of people today, including the graduates before us,
but I would like for the students here to take a moment to
our faculty that are sitting here on the stage
and also up here at the boxes in the orchestra,
they are the ones who make this work.
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One of the things I want to think about is
what is it you really need to show for it.
Love, family, and education.
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The wonder of closure is not just that another door opens, but thousands.
Take advantage of whatever lies beyond those doors.
Make your own place. Find your own way
in our everchanging musical world.
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Seeing your students move and develop,
see the tears, see the joy, their sadness,
their excitement. And as was said much earlier, we are very emotional people.
And, that's good. Because when we're up in front of
3000 people we need that energy to survive.
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Even my mother could never have dreamt
that 47 years later, I'd still be here. A
And especially, she would have never dreamt that
I would be here for this particular occasion,
this wonderful honor that has come to me.
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