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The old. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Mr Mosley and ladies and gentlemen I know people here so many many thousands came here to hear Wagner the musician and not Wagner the mayor so I'll make my remarks very very brief but we are here. I don't need to hear this wonderful music of the fellow monic New York Philip monic we're very proud that they bad the name New York. But just as important to dedicate this great band shell that Carlos Mosley told you about in the name of a day a friend many going to hire who for forty eight years directed the concerts at Lewis and stadium and gave so many thousands and thousands of New Yorkers and visit is an opportunity to hear great music and I hope that for people and the years to come throughout all of the four five boroughs of our city to listen to the concerts given on the many garden Hi I'm a band shell here will always think of her as one of the finest persons that New York this country has ever produced and who gave so much of herself to make people happy and to give them this great music so tonight we dedicate this shell to her in the hope that she'll live many many years to be with us and then humble gratitude for her contribution to a better and finer New York let's get on with the music thank you. But. The mayor of the city of New York the honorable Robert Reich. Formally dedicated the many Guggenheim or shell in which the New York Philharmonic is playing the c evening and will play for another eleven concerts in the next three weeks throughout the metropolitan area. Mayor Wagner was introduced by Carlos Mosley the managing director of The New York Philharmonic who made his brief comments at the conclusion of the first number. Has remained on stage and in just a few moments the conductor William Steinberg will reappear. To conduct the New York Philharmonic in the Symphony Number nine in D. minor Opus one twenty five of little things on Beethoven.