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Funding for this program has

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been provided by the FSC Foundat

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bringing together adults of all 
and backgrounds

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as they pursue passion, prosperi

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and purpose.

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Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

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the Carol Frank Buck

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Foundation in memory of Carroll.

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Frank Buck. 
Additional support provided

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by these funders.

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David Chan

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and I were close colleagues 
at the Met for 19 years.

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I've been concertmaster 
at the Metropolitan Opera

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in New York for 22 seasons.

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We know each other very well.

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I respect him greatly

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and he has become 
a very prominent conductor.

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I think among musicians

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we often say that a person plays 
like their personality,

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and I think conducting is no dif

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To be really effective, 
you have to be authentically you

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I can only be myself on the podi

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I have a very strong idea of wha

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an orchestra needs to see 
and what they don't need to see.

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So I try to provide

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that nucleus to my conducting

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and the rest is just kind of fee

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and spontaneous expression and

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hopefully it works.

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We're so thrilled to be welcomin

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Isabel Leonard to our stage.

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She is singing some arias with u

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from the operatic world.

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She's 
singing a couple of arias from C

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Isabel Leonard is probably

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the leading American mezzo 
of her generation.

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So it's a huge privilege 
and pleasure to have her here.

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An incredible singer 
who I've heard many times on sta

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at the Metropolitan Opera, 
from my position down in the pit

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It's nice to be a little closer

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with her, and she's singing 
some really beautiful arias with

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I'm very excited about that.

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It's going to be absolutely dazz

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No matter how much I love

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working with symphonic

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repertoire, with symphony orches

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When I come back to vocal repert 
there's always a feeling of,

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Oh yeah, this is kind of home ba

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What I find is when orchestras w 
with singers,

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they're forced to breathe 
with the singers,

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and that just transforms

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the playing in general.

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Wind and brass players

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always have to breathe 
as part of their playing.

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String players can fall into the 
of breathing just for survival.

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But when you really breathe with

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in a way 
that promotes the line of the mu

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that goes with the cadence of th 
it transforms the playing.

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So I think it's great to have it 
as part of the festival

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this year.

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The Bizet symphony in C

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is this brilliant work

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that was written by a 17 year ol

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Hard to believe and it's mostly

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very joyous and optimistic in na

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especially the first, third 
and fourth movements in particul

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It seems like a youthful charact

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You know, I would say when you'r 
when you're looking at the music

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you know, first movement, allegr

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third movement,

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allegro vivace,

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fourth movement, allegro vivace.

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This is a youthful person 
that is ready to go fast.

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I discovered the music 
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just a couple of years ago and f 
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something that was very special 
and that spoke to me personally.

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He was a composer, 
he was a conductor, he was

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he was active in jazz

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and pop and classical ballet.

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So a really successful, versatil 
musician.

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Anyway, this piece that we're go 
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It's called Sinfonietta Number T

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Generations.

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This piece generations,

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which is for string orchestra,

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is is a gem,

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I think, which I couldn't 
believe I didn't know.

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It's a very heartfelt,

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warm, slow moving Sarabande.

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So a Sarabande was an old musica 
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from 17th and 18th centuries.

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It was a slow, dignified dance

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in triple meter.

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The rhythm of a sarabande is

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dum da, da dum da, da dum...

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So this sarabande 
a very beautiful, emotional piec

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Interestingly

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he dedicated each movement

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to members of his own family.

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That is why generations

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has such a deep meaning, I think

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not just him at, at that time, 
but I think to us today,

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because we can see our own famil

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and dedicate our own feelings 
in that moment that

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we perform it.

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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

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I feel like it's the anthem

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of violin concertos.

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I cannot imagine being a violini 
without this piece.

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I can't imagine a world 
without these melodies.

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It's really I mean, it sounds so 
but I'm serious.

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Like, I remember the first time 
that I heard this piece performe

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and it was life altering.

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The melodies are so catchy

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and they just never leave your e

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And that's just fine 
because they are so beautiful

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and it's just heart on sleeve mu

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It's the reason that I love 
playing the violin.

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It's there's a lot of virtuosity

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It starts off 
technically simply for the violi

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so I can sort of relax and get i 
how I'm feeling on the stage,

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how my nerves are feeling 
and playing easy stuff.

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And then it slowly ramps 
up, gets harder and harder and h

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and then there's a cadenza 
where the violin gets to take ov

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And it's just, yeah, 
there's, there's everything in t

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and there's within all of the be

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in the first movement, 
there's always this underlying t

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that I'm hearing in these narrow 
half steps in the music.

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So a half step is

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as opposed to a

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whole step, a lot more space.

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And so that that half step, 
there's just a lot of there's

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a lot of rubbing tension togethe

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And so that's musically a tool 
for tension.

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But also, you know, for someone 
who doesn't know anything about

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you just kind of feel it.

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You're like, I want it to go som

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So you'll hear the cellos 
all the time, you know?

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And it's just moves the music 
along that way.

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And it sort of just feels like, 
you know, there's all this suspe

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but right away, 
when the violin comes in at the

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The first thing I do.

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So then it's 
just this dichotomy of tension

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and release that I think makes t 
so satisfying to listen to and t

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Funding for this program has

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been provided by the FSC Foundat

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bringing together adults of all 
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as they pursue passion, prosperi

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and purpose.

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Linda and Alvaro Pascotto

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the Carol Frank Buck

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Foundation in memory of Carroll.

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Frank Buck. 
Additional support provided

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by these funders.