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Evensong is about the active retirement life of Kate and Brooks Firestone that centers on choral singing. After raising four children, working in the corporate Firestone Tire business, establishing a successful winery, and pursuing a political career, the Firestones began a new adventure. Their singing participation with a number of groups around the world led them from Santa Barbara to the London Royal Albert Hall, the Vatican, and the Mormon Tabernacle among many choirs and choruses in their quest to learn and enjoy choral music in concert halls, churches and cathedrals. Their new life brought them joy, hard work, and a tremendous sense of accomplishment that serves to demonstrate with this book what is possible in retirement years.
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Evensong is about the active retirement life of Kate and Brooks Firestone that centers on choral singing. After raising four children, working in the corporate Firestone Tire business, establishing a successful winery, and pursuing a political career, the Firestones began a new adventure. Their singing participation with a number of groups around the world led them from Santa Barbara to the London Royal Albert Hall, the Vatican, and the Mormon Tabernacle among many choirs and choruses in their quest to learn and enjoy choral music in concert halls, churches and cathedrals. Their new life brought them joy, hard work, and a tremendous sense of accomplishment that serves to demonstrate with this book what is possible in retirement years.
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