❤️ Bill Dillon (politician) 🐠

"Joseph Gilbert "Bill" Dillon (16 April 1933 – 17 April 1994) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party in the Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand. Biography =Early life and career= Dillon studied at Auckland University College and graduated LLB in 1957. Dillon then entered the legal profession and joined the Hamilton legal firm of McCaw, Smith and Arcus in 1961, becoming a partner in 1963. He was also a member of the Territorial Force where he held the rank of Flying Officer. =Political career= Prior to entering Parliament Dillon was a member of the Auckland Harbour Board from 1971 to 1986 and was deputy-chairman from 1980 to 1981. He was also a member of the Hamilton Civic Trust and Hamilton District Law Society Council. He represented the Hamilton East electorate in Parliament from 1984 to 1990, when he was defeated by Tony Steel, and the Labour Party was defeated overall by the National Party. While in Parliament Dillon was the Chair of the Justice and Law Reform committees. He was also a member of the Electoral, Foreign Affairs and State Owned Enterprises committees. =Later life and death= After losing his seat Dillon accepted an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court in Samoa. Dillon died aged 61 in Hamilton on 17 April 1994 following a short illness. Notes References * Category:1933 births Category:1994 deaths Category:New Zealand Labour Party MPs Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1990 New Zealand general election Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Category:New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Category:University of Auckland alumni Category:New Zealand lawyers Category:New Zealand judges on the courts of Samoa Category:Auckland Harbour Board members Category:20th-century lawyers "

❤️ Coffee (disambiguation) 🐠

"Coffee is a widely consumed beverage. Coffee may also refer to: Geography * Coffee, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Georgia, United States * Coffee City, Texas, a town in the United States * Coffee County (disambiguation), several counties in the United States * Coffee Crater, British Columbia, Canada * Coffee Creek (disambiguation), creeks and communities in Canada and the United States * Coffee Precinct, Wabash County, Illinois, United States * Coffee Road, a supply trail cut in southern Georgia, United States, in the early 1820s, much of which are now paved and still in use * Coffee Swamp, Wisconsin, United States * Isle aux Herbes, also known as Coffee Island, a state-owned barrier island located in the Mississippi Sound south of downtown Bayou la Batre, Alabama United States People * Coffee (surname) * Coffee Johnny, nickname of English blacksmith John Oliver (1829-1900), immortalised in the folk song "Blaydon Races" Music * "Coffee", a song by Miguel * "Coffee", a 2020 song/single by Kelly Rowland * "Coffee", a song by Aesop Rockon from the album None Shall Pass * "The Coffee Cantata, an alternative name for "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211" by Johann Sebastian Bach * "Coffee", the Arabian Dance from The Nutcracker * "Coffee", a song by BTS from the album "O!RUL8,2?" * "Coffee", a 2017 song by beabadoobee. Organizations and institutions * Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), a research centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia * Coffee Correctional Facility, a privately operated, medium- security prison for men in Nicholls, Coffee County, Georgia * Coffee High School (disambiguation) * Coffee Regional Medical Center, Douglas, Georgia Other uses * Coffee (color) * Coffee#1, a coffee house chain * COFFEE (Cinema 4D), a computer scripting language * Coffee, a filename extension for the CoffeeScript programming language * Leo the Lion (MGM), the fourth MGM lion, named Coffee * Ethiopian Coffee FC, a football club based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia See also * COFEE, the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, a tool kit for computer forensic investigators * Coffea, a genus of flowering plants, several species of which provide the seeds for the popular beverage of coffee * Coffey (disambiguation) * Coffy (1973), a blaxploitation film "

❤️ Michigan State University Children's Choir 🐠

"The Michigan State University Children's Choir (MSUCC) is a Grammy Award- winning children's choir located in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2009, Kristin Zaryski was named director, succeeding the founder of the choir, Mary Alice Stollak. Following Ms. Zaryski, Kyle Zeuch was named Director. After 5 years, Kyle Zeuch departed for Lebanon Valley College. He was succeeded by current director Alison Geesey-Lagan. Most choristers in the choir come from the two other children's choirs in the program, the CMS Singers, and Preparatory Choir. The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Symphony Center in Chicago, and the Kennedy Center, in Washington D.C. In 2006, the choir won two Grammy Awards for their contributions to William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Album . History Founded in 1993, the choir's founder and director was Mary Alice Stollak. Stollak led the MSU Children's Choir in performances at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Detroit's Orchestra Hall, and Chicago's Symphony Center. Some of their notable performances include: 1998: American Choral Directors Association Central Division Convention, Detroit, MI 1999: American Choral Directors Association National Convention, Chicago, IL 2000: The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neemi Jarvi, Conductor. Carmina Burana 2000: premiere performance and recording of "Symphony No. 4 (The Gardens)" Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer, Leon Gregorian, conductor. 2002: Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music: International Federation of Choral Musicians Official Representative of the United States, chosen by audition. Seventy-Three countries and 3000 delegates represented with only thirty-two choirs accepted for performance. Minneapolis, MN 2003: American Choral Directors Association-Michigan: Grand Rapids, MI 2004: American Choral Directors Association Central Division Convention: Indianapolis, IN 2004: Grammy Award winning recording of William Bolcom’s "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", with University of Michigan ensembles, Leonard Slatkin conducting. 2005: Premiere: John Burge’s "Angels’ Voices" with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Meier, conducting. "Angels’ Voices" has since won the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors’ 2006 Outstanding New Choral Composition. 2006: premiere performance of Marjan Helms’ "Voices of a Vanished World", a large scale multi-media presentation exploring the emotional and spiritual implications of the Holocaust, particularly as seen through the eyes of children. This two-hour work draws on the melodic contours and instrumental colors of Yiddish folk music, as well as Jewish liturgical chant. 2007: performance of the Pulitzer Prize winning work, "On the Transmigration of Souls", with composer John Adams conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the UMS Choral Union. 2009: premier performance of “Songs For Lada” Alla Borzova, composer, Leonard Slatkin conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Sung completely in Belarusian, this 40 minute work for children's choir was recorded on the Naxos label. The MSU Children’s Choir has been chosen nine times, through audition, to perform for national, division and state conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, under Stollak’s direction. Thirty treble choral works have been commissioned by the MSU Children’s Choir and are published with major choral publishing companies. May, 2009: The choir performed for the last time with their retiring founding director, Mary Alice Stollak, at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts for their Farewell Concert. Recordings The Michigan State University Children's Choir has recorded several albums: 1.Songs from the Heart 2.What Sweeter Music 3.A Classic Christmas 4.America the Beautiful: Songs of Our Heritage 5.Rejoice!, traditional Christmas music recorded in the historic chapel of the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee 6.Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope, containing works with texts written by children caught in the Holocaust and in the Bosnian war 7.Songs of Innocence and Of Experience – A Musical Illustration of the Poems of William Blake by William Bolcom: Naxos Recording Leonard Slatkin, Conducting, University of Michigan Orchestra and Ensembles 8.Voices of a Vanished world 9.This Joy! 10\. Zwilich Symphony No. 4, The Gardens,', Koch Records, Leon Gregorian, Conductor, MSU Orchestra and ensembles. Premiere Performance and Recording 11\. Songs for Lada, Alla Barzova composer. Naxos Recording release, spring, 2011. Leonard Slatkin, Conductor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Premiere Performance and Recording 12\. " Michigan Music Conference 2017" "Sound Waves Recording" Performed January 19-21, 2017. Kyle Zauch Conductor Current news Alison Geesey-Lagan is the current director of the Michigan State University Children's Choir. The choir rehearses every Tuesday and every other Saturday of each month. External links *Michigan State University Children's Choir Category:Michigan State University Category:Choirs of children Category:American choirs Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Musical groups established in 1993 Category:1993 establishments in Michigan "