So what do you want to do when you're older, they ask?

What that question again?

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So let's get the jump and see what's out there for you.

I hope you like it.

There's some other elements to it that are different from what we normally do here on the podcast.

Because the truth is I wrote this before this podcast began.

I wrote this back in 2008 as a eulogy to a man who changed the trajectory of my life and my career.

If you saw Mr. Holland's opus, this will sound familiar to you.

But I had a music teacher, his name was Fred King.

And what you're about to hear is my best attempt to articulate the impact that he had not just on me,

but literally on thousands of other students and thousands of other singers all over the world.

Fred King was known colloquially as the King of the Barbershoppers.

He was in a barbershop quartet, which is about the strangest thing in the world.

A 16 year old high schooler can encounter.

But the guy was remarkable in just about every way a man can be remarkable.

And when I wrote what you're about to hear, it made its way through what was at the time called the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.

Today they're called the Barbershop Harmony Society.

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