Growing up with albinism in Nigeria was a painful paradox. On the one hand, I received love and care at home from my family. On the other hand, I was living in a society that was generally hostile to people with albinism. I was very aware that I was different from a young age and that the difference was not a good thing in the society. My childhood memories are a mixed bag of the pain that society can cause when they don't understand a condition, but also the power a family can have when they choose to love a child unconditionally. I took the job as an independent expert on albinism because I felt that I could make a difference. I felt that I could serve other people with albinism, that I had acquired enough skills and enough life experiences to understand with compassion. Every day I stand up for people with albinism doing the most basic things such as writing Twitter messages or Facebook messages, raising awareness to the most complex things including doing research or moving partners to get involved or trying to solve problems or respond to reports of attacks. Since I took up the mandate at the UN Human Rights Council, there has been some positive things on one hand. Awareness has really exponentially increased on this issue. And more recently, I would say since the mandate got involved, the visibility of the issue has really increased. More specifically though, from official country visits, there has been some really remarkable changes. For example in Malawi, they have passed laws to reinforce the protection for people with albinism. For example, they have passed laws that protect against trafficking in body parts and not just trafficking in humans and organs, which is usually the laws that you have. So they have tried to fill in that gap. They have also tried to launch some programs in awareness raising involving the police. There has also been partnerships because I see myself as a mandate of implementation and of building partnerships for the cause. There has been a series of partnerships, many of them too long to mention here that has come out of a lot of negotiations through this mandate. So I am very optimistic that this is only the beginning of many good things to come. If I had a magic wand and I could change anything, I would put in people's minds the equal dignity and equal rights of every other person so that treatment can be equal and the fundamental rights of people can be respected. I would like to invite everybody to stand up for someone's rights today.


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All systems grow in orbit for the crew aboard the Shuttle Columbia. Astronauts have been conducting experiments all week making up for lost ground following the mission in April, which was cut short due to a defective generator. For details on just what's been accomplished so far and what's to come in the week ahead before Columbia Cups comes back down to Earth where you go far above Earth this morning to the Shuttle, where we're joined by mission specialist Michael Guernhardt and Roger Crutch. They join us from inside the space laboratory. Gentlemen, thank you for being with us this morning. Nice to be with you. Roger, Crutch, you've got about a week to go left in the mission. It's the first reflight in history. How is the mission going? Well, we've got a few little problems that we're working on, but overall I think everything's working real well, getting some real exciting science results, and we're all real pleased about it. You're studying in some of your experiments the behavior of fire in the absence of gravity. How are you conducting that experiment and what do you hope the results will show you?  They're relatively small fires. Some of them are just a little droplet of fire hanging on a wire so that we're looking at that. What we hope to learn from that is a better way to have more efficient fires on Earth so that we can cut down on pollution and through efficiency save a lot of fuel. Michael, because this is the first reflight in history, what were you able to learn back in April that's being applied to the mission now? As you point out, this is the first reflight in history and it's the fastest turnaround in shuttle history and the fastest turnaround of any astronaut crew. It's a great opportunity for us because we trained for a year for the first mission and then we had a chance to do a dress rehearsal under fairly demanding circumstances with the fuel cell power down. And from that, we really fine-tuned all of the salient points of spaceflight and this mission has been really smooth. Roger could talk to the science. We actually learned some things on this science that helped us change things and optimize this particular mission based on the past one. Michael, before I understand by ham radio, what's it like buzzing by and seeing neighbors in space up there? Yeah, we talked to Mike the other day and at certain points in our orbit we're able to see the mirror space station. It looks like a very, very bright star. Maybe two or three times as bright as Venus looks from up here. It would be nice if you could actually see the shape of the space station. It was great talking to Mike. He sounded really good and things seem to be progressing pretty much the way they want to on board. We had a supply of food and spare parts and so forth. So the concept was it was Christmas on mirror with all that new stuff there. A question for Dr. Gernhardt. We've taken a look into your background. It includes extensive experience in deep sea diving and oceanography. We're wondering if you see any similarities between your work on the ocean floor and in outer space. They're actually very similar in a number of different ways. They're both an operational environment where you really can't breathe and work in the atmosphere without some type of life support system or shelter. On my first mission I did a space walk and that was very analogous mentally to doing the deep sea commercial diving work that I did. And then the other thing that's real common is just working as a team with a group of people. We had to do that in the offshore diving business and it's critical of critical importance that you be able to work as a team in a shuttle mission because the shuttle is so complex that no one person can do it by themselves. That kind of teamwork translates very well into space operations. Roger, you mentioned your age a little bit earlier. Also this week we heard that former astronaut John Glenn said he would like to fly again even at age 75 and NASA is said to be seriously considering the idea. Think about that. He is 20 years your senior. Think back 20 years now for me. Is your body going to be able to withstand that, do you think? Going up there, learning a little bit more about what we can do in space at a more advanced age? Oh yeah, I think a lot of times the chemistry of the body changes as we get older but I think that a person like Senator Glenn keeps himself in good shape. I'd be glad to go along with him as his junior brother and then go again when I'm 75. That would be kind of a cool trip I think and then we could compare my data than he is. We saw also as we were setting up for the interview I believe you had a teddy bear strapped to your knee. What's that all about, sir? Sometimes NASA lets you do things that keep you in touch with your family and that's just a little bear that's been in my family screaming myself for my fiance and my kids for several years and I take it on travel with me a lot and this is just a trip that I thought would be real nice to bring along with me in NASA, let me do that. Isn't that nice. He sleeps with it too. We won't go there. Here's the tool, you can see it's Phillips and on the long ratchet wrench with the Phillips number 2 from the ISM kit. You can see Mike is pretty good to get some good force against the assembly and Roger was turning it while Mike was pushing and it just strips the access through that hole. That's the hole through the setup valve. You can't get to the back side of the screw if there's anything that would help on that screw. In Columbia, Houston, can you confirm the, perhaps point to them the places where the screws are binding? Third from the right, fourth one down from on the right side. Fourth one down on the left side. Okay, those are the ones we copied. I haven't tried the top yet. Understand Mike, and we're asking ISM if they want to get you to position the camera for any particular view, so stand by. This is the top of the panel to do the top fasteners yet because that was not where we were in this sequence. Okay, now I'm on this as you face the panel and going down still in because we haven't tore them for two fasteners and we managed to get that one out of you previously. Okay, now we're forward and moving up in the vertical back to the starting point. And Columbia, Mike, that was excellent. We really appreciate that. That gives us a good idea of what the situation is and we'll try to come up with some words for you on that. The other thought that we have and we're not sure this will work is the possibility of... I know I can get the J13 connector from the access panel here and we're wondering probably get the J18 if we removed the connector tool that we could try if you guys think that makes sense. Okay, we copy. We'll add that to our thinking. It's a 95 PSI on both of them. Is that what you want or do you want something a little higher? 95 is fine and CM1 says it looks good on the ground here. Okay, this is test point 07 Alpha opening. Copy. Greg, we're very happy with that burn. CM1 team knows ahead of time that they're going to want me to do a different procedure than in the procedure book. If they can tell me ahead of time, then I can be sure to do it the way they want from the beginning rather than having to mess up the first few seconds of the experiment. And Columbia Houston, Jim, we're with you there on the flight deck. It's exercise and we try to get in and we have an hour scheduled for exercise. It's only about 30 minutes of that. It's actually on the by-deal of the 30 minutes. It's been getting ready and then afterwards, we're planning to change it back into work clothes. We've got a little video here that Greg made explaining some of the combustion processes back in the lab. What I'm going to do is give you a mid-deck downlink and start the tape. We copy. One of the experiments on our mission is the combustion module wanted to rack design for multiple experiments. And one of the experiments in it right now is called the laminar sick processes experiment. The purpose of this experiment is to study sick formation in microgravity. The principal investigator on this project, Professor Jerry Faith at the University of Michigan, is one of the preeminent soot researchers in the world today. And he believes that by studying sick formation in microgravity, we can learn important insights about sick formation in many important practical devices here on Earth. Soot formation involves the growth of a solid particulate gaseous material. And it's indicated here by this model. The soot aggregate is made up of a very large number of much smaller primary particles. Primary particle joins to the soot aggregate and the soot aggregate grows. By studying this process in microgravity, we can learn much about the sick formation process. Well, that's it. We had a successful day working in a glove box experiments for combustion. Dom was busy with that all day and had a really successful day. So we thought, like, chuck another one up for STS-94. Not every collision. Thanks for joining us.


What's good Josh your boy Ross back at again with another gameplay commentary, so you see the title of the video yes, I was drunk while I was playing the game last night and This is actually some of the footage. I ended up kidding. I actually I think this was the only one No, I think I may have played one more game after this, but this was the only game that I actually felt like was somewhat worthy of Even posting or recording, but something told me a man I'm feeling good right now. Let's you know see if I can get a drunk gameplay and this is what happened So at the beginning game, I was definitely like at this point. I'm on autopilot. I had some drinks in my system I'm feeling good. I'm at the crib like I'm just I'm relaxed. It's cold outside So I'm warm as hell just feeling great, man And normally when I'm like, you know, I've had a few to drink in the system in my previous color duties I actually play better when I'm like slightly drunk.  Maybe, you know, I'll have a better gameplay This was decent. This was decent I end up going I think 25 and 11 and that's sad to say that that's like a decent gameplay when really it's It's all right at best, but I hadn't really been dealing, you know getting that type of gameplay when I'm sober Let's see what happens when I'm drunk and yeah, it was it was cool It was it was it was more enjoyable because I just didn't care and that's sad The call of duty now has forced me to have to like drink So I just don't care when I die like in this game.  I was reasonably lit. Let's say that but for title purposes I'm gonna go for drunk, but yeah, man I was I was just feeling real good relax So none of the BS that normally pisses me off in this game and had no effect So if you guys are old enough to drink and you're you know frustrated with this game Instead of drinking the g-fuel, you know saying you may want to just take a couple shots or two or three or four or five You know, just get the whole bottle get the whole bottle of your favorite alcoholic beverage and take a couple You know, just not just down it not the whole thing at one time But you know between sessions in the lobby when you're trying to find people to match up, you know Take a couple, you know saying like three four five shots.   I died. I didn't even care I was up. Let's go see at that point.   No need to sweat it out. No need to be all irritated Just drink man. Even if you don't like hard liquor, you know, say maybe mix the liquor You know, get you get you your favorite type of liquor mix it with your favorite type of juice and there you go Easy-peasy and if you really really want to be relaxed, I don't know.  Take a shot Don't do that because that means I would have had to take 11 shots. Don't do that. That's no don't I will not promote alcohol poisoning on this channel But yeah, so yeah, that was pretty much the extent of my night. I played the game I literally paid maybe three games and then I got off cuz I like, you know what? I want to do be doing something else. This is cool. But it's like, ah, I'm bored now. Let me go do something else That's that's crazy. I've and I've had in previous call of duties I've had many multiple drunk call of duty sessions Well, I'm just lit just feeling good dropping so many kills not giving a damn and you know Was enjoying the session and was on there for at least by that hour of this straight drunk call of duty, man It's great, but in this game even then you with all the liquor. It wasn't enough. So yeah, I just wanted to bring this random Commentary to the channel man. Hope you guys been enjoying the call of duty content I didn't even know how to operate the goddamn cruise missile.  I'm awful But yeah, man, let me know if you guys want some more call of duty content I'm definitely looking forward to recording more and just putting it out there I'm gonna make the best of this because I paid all this damn money for this damn game So I'm gonna play it and I'm gonna post it on this channel because Why not so appreciate all the love to support man? Appreciate y'all kicking it with me and I'll see y'all on the next one man. Peace


so this is the view outside my window now because the entire neighborhood is under construction and the noise level is a little tough. Okay, so let's head into the office now and get set up for everything I got to do today. I'm kind of hesitant to tell you about today because the day never goes the way I think it's going to go. Now today's plan is that I got up, got ready for work of course. I'm going to head over to Starbucks. I'm going to try to do a little bit of editing on some video clips I've got. Then I'm going to come back to the house. I've got a live video I have to do so that's the course of action today and then after that I need to check my sales for Survival K Food. I own a survival food company and I got to see what I'm going to do on that. I also have a funnel that's starting for Survival K Food today and that should generate a lot of sales. We have a decent list now so hopefully everything will work on that. It'll go out okay and then I'm going to film my training videos that I upload to YouTube so I got to film those for most of the day and then once I've completed that and I may not complete it that's the other thing I'm going to tell you. I've got I think 11 scripts written but I probably won't get through all of them because I had to do this live today and I'm trying to do some other stuff and then I would like to maybe get some lunch come back and I'll film a little bit more then I'd like to head over to the gym and get a workout in. So let's see if it actually turns out that way and if everything is just perfect. Okay, heading out to Starbucks. I'm gonna try to get a little bit of work done. I've got to get back here and film at 10 o'clock so I don't have much time it's around 8 30 right now so let me see how much I can get done before I get back. Okay so I'm here at Starbucks now and when I go in I'm gonna grab a cup of tea. I don't have much time it's about 10 minutes so nine now I've got to get back to my office and film videos today so let's head on in there grab a cup of tea and see how much work we can get done. Shoot the videos for YouTube. It's a little bit different setup than what I normally do for a live. I do use one of these cordless lavalier mics and I like it a lot. The only thing is you've got to put it on and that's kind of a pain so let's go ahead and do that right now. Always check your batteries on these things and they go out fast it's like incredible out of these batteries so let me power this one on. It looks pretty good. Let's put this thing up my shirt here and then I've got to set up the microphone that actually goes over the camera over here you can't see that but I've got a camera set up over here and once I set it up there I can start recording. I've got all my notes on my computer here and what I do is I slides forward to where that camera can't see this and that way I got my notes in front of me kind of like cheat sheet right and I can do my video without having to really think and you can cut out the areas where you mess up which I have a lot of cuts. See you in a second. Okay so just finished lunch at Santa Cataria I think it is. I wouldn't go back so if you're in Georgetown not saying anything bad about this restaurant just very mediocre nothing special. Head back to the house now probably stop and get some gas at Costco then I get back to recording and I got to work out and I got to check those statistics on that promo I sent out today to see what it's doing so far I don't see any sales let's see what happens. Okay so I'm driving down the road and I noticed they're putting these I guess metal structures up all down the side of the road here and I'm not quite sure why you know I think sometimes when a city has a budget they just have to spend it. Okay I noticed that I'm a little low on gas so I'm going to pop into this Costco here and fill up real quick. Okay so I just got back to the office and I checked and I got a sale but it was from one of our retailers it wasn't from that email I sent out so I know something's wrong and I went and checked and that processor on that particular email is broken. Now the guy that works on this for me is an India so I sent him a message but obviously there's a time difference so it's going to cost me some money so I've got a little bit extra time here I've eaten lunch I'm going to let it settle I'm going to switch back into the dress type shirt and then go back to filming videos and you probably get one more in the can before I head over to the gym and I'll take you away with me. Okay shirt changed ready to film I'll wind you guys to kind of see what I do these two walls here of you know they're really packing pads kind of absorb the sound so the sound should be a little bit better now plus I've added a microphone so that sound is going to be a little bit better now and all I do is I put my whatever I'm going to say you know a kind of an outline here on my computer and that camera there that you could see off to the right doesn't see this laptop here so it looks like I can memorize all this stuff and I really cannot so I got to get back to this I got to record some videos. Hey if you've been wondering about using influencers for your business you're going to want to watch this video to the very end if you're not a subscriber please do so now get that subscribe button below turn it from red to gray and don't forget turn it all bell notifications to your notified each and every single time I go live or I upload a video okay so you're wondering okay I didn't get all the videos done but I do have to go to the gym that's super important I mean it's just I I don't want to go I don't want you to think I want to go but I have to go it's just super important to stay in shape if you're going to do this and I think I'm gonna run down and check the mail I've got a delivery that hasn't shown up for two days I can't really do anything more on my funnel right now I've got my team looking at to figure out why everything's stuck and nothing's going out and I'm not making money right now so we gotta get that fixed but we will get it fixed and this is just what happens this funnel that I was sending out that didn't go out to anybody I just got a text from my team and as you can see it's my fault I had set this to go out between 10 and 11 o'clock and I didn't set it up to actually unpause it I guess because it was held until after 11 so it's not going anywhere until the next day so tomorrow it'll go out and hopefully I'll make some money I'm pretty sure I will but I just want to show you mistakes happen and I've been doing this for going on 12 years and I make mistakes every day so that's just how it is well it's the end of the day well not quite but uh it's after eight o'clock got a lot of accomplished today ran into a lot of problems and that's pretty much every day but hey work it online it's the way to go I did the corporate world for 20 some odd years and I started this over a decade ago and uh yeah it's good you guys have a good night hey thanks for watching my video don't forget to subscribe to my channel and click that little bell right there so you can be notified every time I do a new video also click on one of those videos there keep watching on my channel


Good afternoon everybody coming to you live from Channel 17 town meeting television your champagne and I am the host of the Democratic live at 525 show that is on on The second Tuesday of every month coming to you here on town meeting television from Beautiful downtown Burlington in the heart of the Old North End. I got my crack crew here today We have Daniel and Kevin and Jordan and Emily Daniel's parents are here. Hello. Hello from Winooski These people are the very best everyone and and this you know We're the only station in the country that it's called town meeting television Isn't that great now? I'm going to leave this mask on. There's only a couple people here I'm triple Vax, but I'm doing this to make a point and the point is Even though the mask mandate is over What we all need to think about if you're in a crowded place if you're with an older person if you're with someone that has some kind of you know, maybe it isn't feeling well you want to wear your mask and The mask mandate has been lifted March 3rd, and I think it really did succeed in dropping the numbers down Not to be too optimistic. We're hoping to God's sake Please that after two years that this is over or at least diminishing I have to do before I get in my political thing. I've got to get into my I've got to give you the covider app We do it every month We need everyone to be vaccinated. We cannot move forward as a society unless you are not They are doing vaccinations in this very building I am on the corner of Archibald and North Winooski Avenue, but they also do in the community health They do a mccosco. They do them all over the place Now I will tell you if someone had all three shots their first shot is is so painless and Sure, the second shot. I was a little tired and and the booster. I was great but in order to do this we cannot move forward as a society and I'm asking direct appeal. We all know someone who's not vaccinated of All the hundreds of millions of vaccines not one person has died of the vaccine So that makes it safer for me to cross Pearl Street and get hit by a car Then get the again get then have the vaccine to take a toll on me So also another announcement we make every time. It's been a rough two years. Money's tight. It was a cold February We are not a ski town in Burlington and Chittenden So we do not get the economic stimulus of a post Christmas up beat up jump so if If you're having trouble paying some bills if you're having trouble with your heat If you're having trouble with your landlord or your landlord's having trouble with you if you need a good meal if you need a cupboard full of groceries and And especially if you have children We have the amazing three squares program that was for formerly called food stamps and I like three squares It means in order to be healthy. You need to have three square meals a day If you have any questions about this, you know, I can give you a long Email and all that but the easiest thing to do within the state of Vermont is to call 2 1 1 that's also questions for COVID also questions about three squares or perhaps getting fuel assistance or project Lifeline Which is a phone program which I actually get which is fantastic takes the price off your phone Because they know every Vermonner needs a phone Okay, so that's my two cents on that and I have to do that every show. I have about I have about 17 minutes, so It's not called town meeting television for nothing We had an excellent town meeting in Burlington I know this show goes out to all 13 towns in Chittenden so I Know there was a big turnout in South Burlington and Shelburne in Heinsberg But what I'm going to do today because we have a limited time. It's a little bit of a short show I'm actually off to register voters tonight at higher ground Those folks have so kindly invited me for a great musician from Nashville named Marcus King I need to thank higher ground because it was there just about two weeks ago that I registered my 1500th voter so They are so so kind. I want to thank Alex Brothers Mike McKinley Sean Connor all the nice folks over there Jeremy Bonnie everybody They couldn't be nicer so we only have a few minutes and So I thought I'd talk about town meeting television in Burlington For a Democrat the results were mixed. We had some first-time candidates that did spectacularly well But didn't quite make it The progressives are very very strong on campaigning for a town meeting They do a great job in February. Do they do a great job with pole presence their social media and their creativity is Outstanding and I better tip my hat to Josh Ronsky We're kind of on the other side sometimes but Josh you did a good job. You put some quality candidates out there I want to talk about a candidate full disclosure that I worked on their campaign That's my friend Ben Travers. He's just been elected to Phil's Chip for the retiring Chip Mason seat. Thanks Chip for all the years and He's a young lawyer with three children. He lives in the South End. He's a great guy. He's a friend of mine He really cares about the South End and we've been talking about economic revitalization We're always always talking about trying to help veterans We've we've had some talk just very primary about doing more stuff on veterans issues And I think that's gonna come next So no homeless vets as my friend Jordan Riddell from the mayor's office tells me no one wants that and we got to thank all the men and women who who fought for our own forces and You know, we're coming off Coming off 20 years of war. So we have we have a lot of healing to do and The show is not about Ukraine But we obviously see this is the first time they call war and in Eastern Europe in 70 years and it's really scary my Thoughts and prayers are with the people in the Ukraine. It's a democratic country Vladimir Putin is obviously He's a person without scruples and And it's a very scary situation. I want to wish everyone well. I know the Ukrainian community here is doing stuff I know some Russians and they're very appalled by the war So that's a difficult one. So let's I want to talk about okay, so getting back to Ben He he ran in the in the south-end district, which is about almost three miles long It goes from basically like maple maple Street all the way to the South Burlington line like Queen City Plaza Ben He received 78% of the vote, which is incredible. He had two other challengers So I'd like to thank Ben and his family. It's not easy for any of the candidates every day and late ship from from You know mid-January till till March 1st. You're doing something on the campaign. There wasn't as much Door-to-door canvassing conversations. There was a lot of social network I'd like to thank Joanna Grossman for helping on Ben's campaign and also other campaigns great Democrat former vice-chair of the party really brilliant mind with with empirical data and So we had a great time I'd also like to thank the challengers in that ward and And as I said, it was it was a good campaign now look at the the race that has received the most attention is The race in Ward 8 and that is that was between a progressive alley house who is a UVM alumni and Hannah King who is a UVM student and Boy was that close there were two outstanding outstanding candidates Both the people that worked on the campaigns. I mentioned Josh Ronsky He and I are on other sides issues, but you got to give the respect when it's due and then my great friend Adam Roof Who's chair of the Democratic Party? In Burlington, and I have a flash announcement Adam Roof is going to be my special guest next month On channels on town meeting television coming to you live from channel 17 So that race Did not go Hannah's way and I have to say I was disappointed Hannah's a great friend of mine former state committee member former a merge program Graduate which is a program for women to run for public office Democratic Party Also, she's doing a lot of great work for Becca Ballant who's running for Congress and so Hannah I just want to say that you you did such a great job. We're so proud of you and Ali you ran a fantastic race We have to face the the point sometimes that the For young people in the in the district is predominantly young and renters That the Democratic Party might seem a bit old and stale to them The progressive party brings a lot of excitement from the campaigns of senator Sanders and AOC and the squad and And a hundred others more They've really come in with some great ideas and we've got to thank senator Sanders. The conversation has moved left I wanted Hannah to win, but I'm sure Ali will do a great job. I want to thank to all the people that worked on that campaign Owen and Aiden Dordy Sid I don't I'm sorry.  So now We the most the race now, okay It looks like I'm getting stuff behind on my screen speak of the speak of the man himself Bernie burn baby burn I'm sorry. I didn't know that this is going to be going on behind me. So It's excellent. I hope my audience likes it too. Well, what can you say about Bernie Sanders? a little amazing man amazing man his life journey is to help people and he is doing some of the best work of his career right now as chairman of the budget committee and You know a lot of times that that night The State of the Union was the same night as town meetings. So senator Sanders had to be in Washington He usually comes by the polling places. So we'd like to say hi to To senator Sanders and Jane and Karina and Dave and Blake and the whole crew great people Burlington's finest and I Okay, hey, here's the man behind me That triggers something. I really want to talk about I thought and you know, this is a very partisan show but I thought the president was fantastic on State of the Union I had just gotten back from the polls and had it on the radio and I thought his Excitement, I thought it was great. It's very obvious that president Biden is very very comfortable in the Capitol and he's You know, that was where he served for 36 years Excuse me and That was a bar burner of speech as my old man used to say I liked what he was talking about There was some facts there that I'd never heard or maybe never heard a president talk about that one out of ten Americans to have diabetes Boy, that's scary. I Know the Republicans like to talk. Oh This and that but we reached very high. We maybe didn't dunk the ball, but we put it in the hoop and President Biden is doing a fantastic job the new Supreme Court nominee I believe we'll get close to 60 votes and we'll be fantastic and Finally, we're starting to get the court looking like what America looks like I read in the New York Times that even though White males only make up one third of the American population they've 94% of These Supreme Court justices in our history have been white males now that's something that has to end and Good job by President Biden doing this and also I think I think vice president Kamala Harris has done a great job And as my mother was saying to me fantastic to see two women behind the president first time ever Our first woman vice president and then the legend miss Pelosi She's the best no one can count votes like her We're lucky to have her we would not have the Affordable Care Act without her So I thought the state of the Union was fantastic. This is also senator Leahy's Last state of the Union. I think he saw saw He saw 47 of them and I'm just going to mention very quickly the president said senator Leahy served under and It's amazing president Ford President Carter president Reagan president Bush president Clinton president Bush George W. Bush president Obama president Trump. I don't want to say I want to love and now president Biden Incredible senator Leahy. I your personal kindness to me I've been fortunate enough to be a Leahy fellow worked on campaigns with you and I just always want to thank you For your great work We we thank you, and I want to thank this is a miss Leahy. I want to thank John Tracy Carolyn Dwyer John Goodrow All the staff with senator Leahy He has been there crucially Crucially battling for this this new deal agenda You know, I think we're going to come out of this inflation. I think the inflation is fueled obviously short term by the the war in Ukraine the invasion the illegal invasion and also that COVID has stretched us You know it we're in a different world now with working and and going back to work and people have moved jobs and we're still trying to figure it all out and There's going to be quite a book when somebody writes it in 25 years about these two years of COVID Because everyone's had different experiences. We've all had people die that we knew and loved and cared about and The most pointed to me was the lady that she was a hundred and one years old. She was a twin and Her sister had died in the great flu epidemic of 1918 and she succumbed at age a hundred and one to COVID Wow but our our country is so strong and so resilient and and honestly not afraid to spend money and we are spending our Way out of this so Again, I have about five minutes left getting back to COVID. Please get vaccinated wear the mask Okay, so let's let's talk about what this means for the city council We have a 6-6 tie on the city council Also, I should talk about Ali Zhang the city council are in the new north end on the right side of North Avenue He was re-elected with two votes and they did a recount yesterday Thanks to all the people helped on that gym hallway all the good crew And that lead was kept what it happens with voting is for example when you come in You check your name is checked off on paper. You then put your ballot in the ballot which reads it The paper ballot falls and this is collected So at the end of the night we count when we checked you in we count the tally on the ballot box And we count the physical ballots so nothing is is on the internet or Computer nothing can be hacked and those numbers always equal and Attribute to the campaign did not excuse me not campaign the the the election staff up there They they didn't find any new votes So they I saw them the election night and they told me they counted so carefully they probably counted ten times So we are down to five minutes. Thank you, Daniel My line producer my my cameraman and again thanks to his parents. We appreciate we appreciate We appreciate Daniel here and tell me television is really is a family and that's what so so nice about it I look forward to it every week Okay, so I've got five minutes better look at the right camera so There's a real problem on the council. We have 12 members But a six-six tie kills something What what I think we need to do and we'd have to change the city charter and We'd have to it would have to go in front of the voters And it could not occur during this current administration But what I think we need to do is the mayor who is the only person who is elected By all eight wards of the district he gets to cast a tie-breaking vote now I think for that to go forward it would probably have to be Moved to the next mayor so there wouldn't be considered political But the mayor is the only person that is elected in all eight wards And I I think that if we trust the mayor we have to trust that he's going to use that vote to break it Break the tie either way Now sure, it's easy to say I'm a very partisan Democrat and it's the Democratic mayor now But I just think fair is fair. There's sure a good chance the next mayor could be progressive you know as I as I Speak today the mayor on an April 2nd. He'll have been mayor ten years Congratulations, mr. Mayor. You're a good friend. I'm very proud of you Burlington has moved very much forward We've had a lot of challenges. It's still not easy I'm sitting right here. I'm in the poorest neighborhood in all of Vermont. I mean, it's beautiful. It's the old north end It's charming, but then there's parts that sometimes it'll break your heart So that's that's what I think about the city council We'll see what happens. I'd again like to thank all the candidates Especially Hannah King Rob gutton and Ali Jang My my buddy Ben Travers and then a couple candidates ran on a post which shows to me They're doing a fantastic job and that is miss Karen Paul who I would like to see be the next city council president And I forgot also about Sarah carpenter long-term Activist leader and she is a new north-end counselor on the left side of the avenue. So We've gone through town meeting TV and the coverage that town meeting television did Was fantastic Pretty much all the candidates came in here. It was on the cutting edge. They were right downtown as the ballots came in It's it's not much different than democracy a hundred years ago. You come in with the ballots check them in I'd also like to I should say hello to Sarah Montgomery who was works for the city clerks and she She it was her first election because our pal miss Amy Bovi just had a baby Congratulations Amy Sarah you did an amazing job. It's not easy doing all eight words You have to go there the night before before 7 a.m. afterwards And it's really about a 20-hour day. So we're down to two minutes. The show will be on next Month the second Tuesday in April at 5 25 We will be back to our 45 minute segment today was a little short because I'm headed off to To do a great voting reg and here's some rock and roll. I had a pretty much sold out higher ground Um, okay, we're wrapping up. I better do my thank yous. Um, again everyone at town town meeting television Ms. Davidian Megan Kevin Daniel Emily Jordan Jordan's my executive producer He does a great job. I love all the stuff that was put behind me today. I appreciate it. I have one more I have one minute left. Let's just talk about Very quickly the next time there is election is the second Tuesday in august and boy, that's going to be a big one That's going to be candidates for lieutenant governor for congress We are going to on a hundred percent guaranteeing you we are going to elect a democratic woman to congress And then also we're going to have the the senate primary with of course our fantastic congressman peter welch who i've already endorsed and is great And it's going to do such a good job. Thanks to everyone over at his campaign ryan athea and ben and and skyler and meredith Anyway, it's hard to remember all these names We're just about done just about out of time If you need to register to vote you can give me a call<PHONE_NUMBER> You can go down to city hall. You can vote online You can excuse me. I'm sorry. You cannot vote online. You can register to vote online Even though I think it's best to do it in person because you're left with a paper receipt Which is that you can use to get a library card So again, it's been fun. You know what's cool is when I come here in the winter It's dark and the last time I was here was five below and it's light and it's 40 We're going to have a great summer everyone. I'd like to thank you I'm not sure how much time I have left and that's it. Thanks so much. Have a great day


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I'm pleased to welcome you to the 11th annual Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year awards this evening. Profile performance, as we all know, will gather here to honor the London River Green Hall by 1904 Artist of the Year. I'm Barbara Birston. I'm chairman of the County Arts Commission. I represent January's from the first district. There are four other commissioners, each pointed by one of the board of supervisors. The other commissioners include Betty Allen from the second district, Marsha McDougall from the third district, Dougie from the 100th and from the fourth district, and Mary Kay Hebert from the fifth district. So if you want to make a comment about County Arts Commission business, please do find your commissioner. We welcome you. I would also like to welcome tonight and name my previous artist of the year. We have several audience, and in particular I would like to point out Lou Harrison, who is here with us tonight. Oops, I haven't arrived yet. Other artists of the year include William Neverson, David Dunn, Jack Sajak, Charles Silber, the Cabrionis Festival, and Tandy Heel. I'd like to say a few words about the Arts Commission, and before I do that, I'd like to mention that tonight's pro-pop performance is co-sponsored by the Division of the Arts at UCSC, where Linda is a professor, and Chancellor Carl Piester and his associate Riga Olson Piester here with us tonight, as well as other representatives, so you'll hear from later. It's also co-sponsored by KYSP Radio, a treasure in our community. This program has a very program, and the Artist of the Year project is just one of many things that we do. For those of you who have come to produce Artist of the Year presentations, it will occur to me, say before, how proud we are of our Art and Public Places program. This program is relatively new in San Francisco County, and I'm delighted to inform you that just this week, a freeway art project that will be going in the new underpass of the Bay Avenue freeway exchange, we have local ceramic artist Susanna Areas, who will be creating for us a wonderful ceramic sculpture mural for that underpass, so I'm delighted to let you know that the Capital City Council yesterday provided its approval for that project. There are two nationally recognized artists who have been engaged to do work at the Health Services Building, which is going up, and also at the Live Oak Swing Center. We'll be able to see those works coming up in the next few years. We're also working with Juvenal Hall on a project for youth with an artist, and we are working on an arts and parks overlay plan so that in the future as we begin to see new county parks projects develop, there will be more and more of our elements to bring all of us joy to the community. We've been working with the Cultural Council towards increasing arts and education in schools, and you'll all be hearing about that over the next year or so ahead. And for those of you cooperating with the Cultural Council, I'm doing a study to create a performing arts facility here in San Cruz County, and Larry Pearson has been heading up that project for the Cultural Council and he's doing the youngest job. I'd also like to say, and I'm very pleased to let you know, that I have several faxes that arrived just today, and I don't think Linda knows about it. I'd like to read one from International Recognized Parks Courtist Gustav Landmeld. Dear Linda, of course, the news of your being an artist of the year has spread to Holland and beyond. I don't know if you can see, I'm just sitting back here. It's kind of hot. I am extremely happy that your devotion to the good cause has found a large recognition, and we, too, are sending you our warmest congratulations. Splendid, yours better, Gustav. And another just arrived late this afternoon from Royal Chalice, Honour Bill Smith. Honour says, Dear Linda, how wonderful to hear of your being an artist of the year in 1994. Great Santa Cruz County, too, to be happy with its own artist. Take Holland, but oh, no, being from there, I really feel really awed by your enormous knowledge of the music from the former Dutch Indies. Netherlands, Boots, Indies. Linda, it has always been such a pleasure to work together. May it have been soon again at your side or mine. I'll bring my uncles. Tune the perfect sevens. Know that I am there this afternoon in the reception in spirit. And finally, from Max von Egland, a baritone, fabulous folk list, it has come to Santa Cruz, as has these two other wonderful musicians as part of the Santa Cruz Broad Festival. And Max says, Dear Linda, such good news from Santa Cruz, my congratulations for your reward and may the 27th of May be a glorious day for you. Is life not getting too busy and do you have enough time to spare? Again, congratulations, your regards from your friend Max. Because if you haven't been to Santa Cruz Broad Festival, you're really missing out. And out in the lobby, there's some information where you can find out about the subscription season next year, so I know where y'all are hoping to do that. To extend what you'll hear tonight into the future. Now, what I'd like to do is, while Simon's here, then I am designated to... Linda, could you come up here? This is the product information from while Simon's chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Board of Supervisors, Gary's of the chair, and then Herman Hull as 1994 artist of the year where as Linda Berman Hull is recognized as a virtuoso heart supportist whose keyboard progress radiates brilliance and is internationally renowned in the borough music field and where Linda Berman Hull has contributed to the artistic richness of the county of Santa Cruz by helping to found and continuing to direct the Santa Cruz Broad Festival, which has a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest music series of its kind, and consistently bringing celebrated musicians to our community. And where as Linda Berman Hull has produced the Borough Music Program, Dr. Hull's Borough Tonic on KUSP FM for eight years, brings the finest Borough music available to the airways of Santa Cruz County. And where as Linda Berman Hull's concert appearances include the Fermat Bach Festival, the Enatomichi Borough Festival, Borough Early Music Festival, well, it goes on for quite a while, so it's a really long choreographed. I won't, don't think I'll bring the whole thing, but you've got the idea. And where as Linda Berman Hull's music expertise extends beyond Borough Music to contemporary music, which is recorded and she is reported for commercial saving release. And where she's been active at the E.C.S.C. Donnelly Cochrane and served as a faculty coordinator for Banja and Bali. She is now recognized by her students at the E.C.S.C. as a favorite professor for you and has served as chair of the music department. And where as the lives of Santa Cruz County residents have been greatly matched by the fine performances of Linda Berman Hull. Now therefore, I, Eric Patton, chairman of the Santa Cruz County Arts Board of Supervisors, do hear about becoming Linda Berman Hull at Santa Cruz County's 1994 Art Studio and honor her significant contribution to the Santa Cruz County community. I want to thank the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission for the opportunity to present this resolution from the California State Senate to Linda Berman Hull on behalf of my father. I'd like to reflect for a moment on her contribution to the Santa Cruz County area as a performer, concert organizer, and teacher. As a performer, Linda brought to our attention the music of the Heart's Chord, Orton, or De Piano, both as a soloist and continual player, and also the gamma. In her frequent travels, she has established a reputation on a world stage. As a concert organizer, she's brought many of the world's greatest performers of the world from the right here to Santa Cruz. This is a tribute not only to her considerable skills as an officer here, but also to the esteem with which she is held by musicians of international stature. As a musical entrepreneur, she began the Broad Festival nearly 20 years ago, originally calling it the Festival of Living Music. Now, I always thought the name should help the uninitiated by saying exactly what it is that a fin is. Did this name announce her intention to sweep away the dust of centuries and to bring a vibrant music to life? This hypothesis is supported by such rare and exclusive moments as the two concerts entitled 400 Years of Chicken Music and another favorite, a musical Insectami Elements. On the other hand, she hypes about awareness and appreciation of the live element in live music performance. And she reminded us that there were more musicians gainfully employed on a per capita basis during the Baroque period than during our own time. Now, Mass Media selects only a few individuals from among the many who were available and talented. Our model should be accept no substitute for live music for a teacher, a patient who taught me the secrets of ornamentation, gynecology, dive rhythms, and the rudiments of improvisation in the Continuo style. Now, this involves something quite frightening for most music and pianos to consider. Tradition, making a transition over to the harpsichord, and that is, how do you notice that aren't even there? To live, I also owe my interest in building a tuning harpsichord. You know, it's surprising how few musicians have ever heard or probably understood the peaceful consonants of a purely tuned major third. Thank you. Thank you all for seeing the familiar faces that we've had tonight. And Steve, of course, we're going to leave that much to take. It's a really good choice. Pierre Trossel and Madeline McCall come forward. I've been a executive director of the Baroque Festival for a long time. Pierre is, as many now, Pierre is executive director of KUSK Radio. Pierre? Well, thank you. Linda Brenner-Call was the first person I met when I came to Santa Cruz almost a dozen years ago. As a student of music myself and as an amateur fan of especially early music, I had, of course, crew with Linda in the marvelous work she was doing at the Festival of Living Music in Santa Cruz. I had also ran and was fascinated by her doctoral thesis and I was aware of her name for musical and intellectual accomplishments about which I'm sure her other colleagues will have much to say this evening. Well, I was prepared to be impressed upon being here and I was. As well as charmed by the warmth of her intelligence and by her fine wit. Not to mention the fact and many of you might not know this about Linda that she is a cat mom, part S.O.U.S. I went on to become associated with Linda in the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival first as a board member and then for two years as a general manager following with great difficulty in the footsteps of Peter Charles although he's speaking that working closely with Linda in festival activities and by admiration through As founder and artistic director of the festival Linda has created funds to present to Santa Cruz audiences not only artists of international acclaims such as Gustave Leibnacht and Max Leibnacht to mention just a few but also local artists of distinction some of whom will be hearing tonight. The magic of these performances hearing this wonderful music played today as it sounded in its little time has, I believe, significantly enriched our lives. Linda, herself an artist of international renown stature has been an esteemed element when sharing with our community the very best of the traditions of Western and non-Western musical cultures extending our horizons and uplifting our spirits for a quarter of a century she's been doing it So, in closing I'd like to thank the art exhibition for honoring Linda as the artist of the year but mainly I wish to thank Linda for the joy that she brought to me and to thousands of other appreciative listeners whom she has reached and profoundly touched through her art. Thank you, Linda. And it was 26 years ago that I met Linda I was a man half of the friend Paul Ward until if you know and he said, how much do you mean Linda that you drove down to Princeton and found Linda immersed in the library at the time? That was my first meeting with Linda we went and had some leech out of the open some subterranean cafe in Princeton I knew I would have a long relationship with Linda She showed up about 6 or 8 or 10 months later in the Santa Cruz where I was then living I moved here in 1969 and she came along and came to visit Paul and myself and ended up staying in the Santa Cruz which all of you know now is a great lesson Linda's and I have been an associate for all these long time and I was on the board director for the first year of the Festival of Living Music Linda lived over on Knight Avenue with her assistant Charles Hall who I think I might have had something to do with me I knew Charlie, I knew Linda I knew Charlie, Linda and Linda Linda and Charlie and maybe about Knight Avenue which was right out of the loom between the beautiful natural setting which was the beginning place for the festival players who met there to play and became the Festival of Living Music I sat on the first year of the board and after the following 10 years I was the general manager for the Festival of Living Music which then became Santa Cruz so eventually I have a long relationship with Linda She's a phenomenal person to work with she has an extraordinary focus and it's inspiring to work with somebody who has penetration and persistence and determination and you see that and everything that she does she's an extremely prolific artist and as a witness she has her own home she has a lot of rabbits she collects rabbit motifs kind of a symbol of her you see but so one of the things I love about Linda is that she hasn't had a sense of humor and we often don't see that because she's a performer on stage seriously conducting her business but of course the brokery is full of birth and joy and frivolity and she's right I always want to have audiences know Linda from that sense of humor that she has because she is pervasive and also inspiring I'm obviously didn't really prepare for this but my love for Linda and the gratitude I feel towards the community for supporting her as an artist of the year it's overwhelming thanks very much Linda various things this evening goes on now so I'll be back and I'd now like to introduce Ken Calvin the Dean of Division of Arts and University of California Senator it brings to add my voice to the court's appreciation for Linda for all this evening my own personal voice and the voice from my perspective as a Dean of the Arts at UCS City and it stressed my appreciation and commendation for Linda's work and having the initial vision for the Sanctuary's Burlick Festival for her efforts in sustaining it over the years and for her artistic contributions to the festival music in our community and to her efforts to reach out beyond your American culture to other cultures in the world pictorial pieces of Indonesia I think the other speakers have addressed quite effectively the richness which this activity has brought to our community with the chance of diversity and the area of experience wonderful achievements of Burlick music and Indonesia music at first hand I also want to express the appreciation of myself and my colleagues for the opportunities they have had to participate in these activities in the concerts of the festival in the recordings that were made and the chance to bring to you the public the results of our studies on the ill somewhat theoretical and private I also want to point out that Linda exemplifies an ideal which we all all very view both all of my colleagues in the arts and especially my colleagues in music are strongly in the integration of scholarship and performance that they are both mutually informative that the performance of music especially the music that gets farther and farther removed from our own culture and is developed very, for example requires intellectual preparation in order to achieve performance and that the performance gives perspective to the scholarly endeavors the results from the scholarly endeavors and that individually performance by itself can tend to wander off into areas of technical brilliance and flesh and that scholarship by itself can wander off into avenues that become perhaps indulgent and curious but increasingly distant from the serious questions that we want to answer about the music in music education and university we are seeking to to form the educational development of our students to understand the achievements of our culture to understand music as a language to understand how it can allow us to experience to know to express to communicate a whole range of ideas from the fairly light ideas of entertainment and amusement to the most profound issues of human existence so I kind of wanted from my topical are you still with me I wanted to emphasize that Linda embodies in her work the work of her own music and the work of Indonesian music this idea which we hold all of us so far here the integration of scholarship and performance thank you I would like to express wonderful to be here to my capacity all of you and to be able to perform a variety of things I've never tried to change years like this to go from a work to contemporary to dominant so it's something very unique as well as something in a way familiar I'd like to express gratitude to the Care and Guards Commission and to those who nominated selected me for this special honor and especially to staff members for their generosity and support in their inter-particular energy including this event we've been through a lot together the Community of Santa Cruz County should also be thanked that's you all of us here tonight to all those who have supported the Santa Cruz World Festival I'm very grateful and it's been a constant recording project for the past 21 years I've seen many of your faces during this time the festival has been able to achieve national and international recognition but it could never have achieved any recognition without you and the audience I'd also like to express gratitude to all those who brought the inclusion of Performing Arts and all the richness to this region and the local enthusiasts and the great agencies who've helped traditional and contemporary forms of certain needs and modernism and dance and theater thriving around the Santa Cruz area special thanks to my next secretary of America for her work in preparing all of these initial offerings for tonight I'd like to thank the UCSC for its occasional partnerships with both the Baroque Festival and Banja Baroque Santa Cruz including co-sponsored for tonight's event a special thanks to my musical colleagues in California New York and Indonesia who have really enriched my life by making music with me I'd also like to express all of my appreciation to my students who've taught me so much and I'm sure that many of my musical colleagues, students and faculty are future artists of the New York area to be and last but actually first the importance I'd like to offer special thanks to my mother for teaching me to make music and to my husband Charlie for his constant encouragement and support of my artistic life even with my business as an artist he's really been there for me I'd like to say a few words about Baroque music because that's where we began tonight on our live performance element which is from the 17th and 18th century and I'd like to say a bit about what the 20th century musician who used to play Baroque music needs to do first I'd like to ask my colleagues John and Michael who will perform with me to come on up and take their instruments first of all the Baroque music she replaced a particular instrument from the time and the place of the music John has played in the Old Agamba which is different in many ways from the modern instruments that you might see that look at this and while it's certainly different from the cello I'm going to explain a little bit about it John I hope you can hear me after hearing the microphone I'll be quite soft in comparison it has seven strings and it's a bit lighter than the cello but it's the same sort of body size the string length is about the same but I think you'll notice it has a fret at neck at this part not above on the frets it's tuned very much like a guitar or a lute the other major difference would be the bow which I hold underhand I've had to learn to control each note by pressure on the string with my middle finger that's completely different from the violin family that plays overhand thank you and Michael will be pointing over a violin which is very different from the modern violin although it officially looks pretty similar in the sense it suffers from looking so much like the modern violin with the exception of the chin rest which is missing but the sound represents sort of the same contrast with modern violin as my voice in an unamplified way perhaps compares with an amplified voice that when you begin to hear it your ears have to focus down a little bit to get into the parameters of the instrument when we talk about the violin this is the thing that was made by Stradivarius and Amadeus and so forth with the great names and their instruments were changed in the course of the 19th century basically in order to make them louder so what has happened in a kind of revolution of the last 30 years or so is that these instruments, violins and cellos and so forth have begun to be restored to the specifications of their original makers so that this violin that I'm playing tonight was built around the year 1720 and because it was a good instrument an instrument of quality it was changed in the 19th century I won't go into all the details but the neck primarily and some of the things inside in order to make it project more because the circumstances of performance the places of performance have become larger to the instruments that have been louder but this has been restored to its original specifications in order to make it more fit suited to a performance space of this kind of size Thank you Michael The harpsichord is an 18th century French style instrument and it's on loan previously from UC Sanctus The baroque musician Nadeus leads to tune at the pitch that seems most appropriate to the music that she wants to play and in our case we're tuned around 415 about how to step to practice and perform the 18th and 17th century ways of playing the instrument and playing it in positions that are familiar from modern instruments that are similar it may not be the right balance to use for the particular culture that is being performed Today's musician interested in our music also needs to study the culture to be honest to music to try to apply knowledge to have culture to music documents, study paintings architecture even other arts, particularly dance theater, literature and ascetics many of our compositions don't even want to analyze them they're just trying to understand the structure before performing it and of course because we are in an experimental situation we can't simply sit back through the tour and we find out for sure we have to do a lot of rehearsal a lot of experiments with speed sound though and ornamentation trying to communicate something even more than a personal image of the piece to the modern audience about the local samples they tend to be treble based on and if we do see treble based right up here, violin and viola the high-pitched my instrument is the one that tends to stitch in between these two poles shaping the performance by accenting and decorating each phrase as it's going to be spontaneously delivered the high-pitched works makes up a part based on the bass line and on a written notation in the chords it's called finger bass a bunch of Arabic numbers that have to be translated into actual keys the high-pitched works is thus constantly improvising within this game structure always responding to what's just in the play and what just might be played and listening to the other students trying to find a way to support what they do with the bass in some respects, this type of music resembles the modern medium of jazz or in some cases other kinds of folk music that might be very familiar to today's audience every performance, therefore, is unique about our piece La Soma Réve it's an 18th century piece associated with the grandeur and majesty of the summer king Louis XIV in France before the 20th century around churches which called for great bells to announce the births, deaths, ceremonies and special events La Soma Réve, the character on that of the church saint Genevieve upon the head of Paris is based on a three-note tower bell relative since its composer was his famous player the instrument John plays tonight the piece is very well known for its very colossal fireworks for the ball some might recognize this piece but we tutored that town too long which is a way of reference anyway, without further ado, I'd like to tune which certainly happens everywhere across it and move right back to the music we draw on many of the colleagues who are equally talented I'd like to introduce one of those people who really works with this colleague in the university I'll experience my first play of his I think and we've been performing regularly ever since it's always not only a joint play of Linda but an honor as well normally when we perform together we're playing sonatas for flute and continuo now several people tonight have alluded to continuo I was afraid Stephen was going to steal my little parent remarks but he talked about playing notes that worked on the page and Linda makes a reference to the big red base what is this mystery that Linda performs of a harpsichord in fact, when you have a sonata a brode sonata for flute and continuo the composer has written two lines a flute line and a bass line which is played by the left hand the harpsichord under the bass line are often figures, numbers that indicate in kind of a short hand what the harmonic structure is that it's going on above it is up to the harpsichord to improvise a right hand part based on reading these numbers first of all it's a very difficult task as you can imagine but there is also an enormous amount of improvisation at the simplest form one can just play block chords in the right hand but one can improvise little melodies and you can play chords of two notes even for that creating different volumes of sound and of course this is done instantaneously with nothing in it on the page I've played with many harpsichordists I have never played such a master of this art that has Linda not only technically I have watched her be in those unbelievable scores I've watched people put in front of her manuscript of the featured bass in a brawl in a strange clef very legible and I've watched her read them no perfect it's quite incredible but in addition to that she is the most inventive continual player you never know what she's going to do in the right hand and the first few times she performed that was a little taken back because sometimes at the concert I hear things that I had never heard before but I've seen a word in the right hand and her flights of fancy were fabulous she was always also attuned to what the other players were doing I can remember one incident in particular when I made a small error in my part and she immediately imitated me in her right hand this is quite amazing accomplishment that's why I say it is a joy and an honor to work with Linda we've made quite a few recordings and performed a lot of drum music but the last couple of years we've started to do something different to perform some the temporary was written for early instruments and that's what we want to play for you tonight please don't be scared by the fact that this piece was written a little more than in 1982 so 12 years ago that should not frighten you I'm going to give you a little introduction to my drill here the composer of the work and Bob are you here tonight? yes there he is also the follow-up which is a two-member release written in memory of a man Jason Paris who played the viola to gondola which you've just seen and Jason died in a freak grounding accident in the Rhine when he was in his 20s and he was a friend of Bob and the piece was written as well and this piece was written in his memory the piece has three movements but they are continuous but let me tell you some things to listen for the opening movement is a portrait of Jason and presents the musical styles that interested him of course the primary one a couple of parts of this that they can listen for one is a broken chord style that you hear in a hundred-part playing chords that are played one minute at a time this was a typical baroque style and of course it keeps the sound from dying away because it's sustained by breaking the chord for a long period of time and you just play it in a kiln a second baroque reference is a canon section there's one part in the beginning where Linda begins a melodic line and I give that paper exactly one measure later but Jason was also interested in number of music and there is a jazz rock section where she plays a series of repeated chords and I do a kind of improv over it and there's also a blues section which I think you'll recognize the second movement and again both continuous movements are separate by the cadenza passages in the food of a harpsichord the second movement is the actual drum and bass every time you play this piece you feel like you're killing Jason over an overwhelming experience in any case he will hear the drowning introduced when the actual drum and bass plays Linda plays a fearsome set of right hand chromatic why is he doing that show them a little about waves of water a swirling of waves over which the flute screams out in a series of overblown pitches with low one note and then overblown to get higher harmonics to speak which is undoubtedly the drowning man reaching for some type of self-help but finally six down was lowest possible note after which the third movement has a quote from a piece that you just heard I'm hoping you'll remember we've heard about 500 times the opening three note devoted this is repeated again in the last movement of this piece but at a tempo much much slower than you've heard in the previous piece and over into the bells of Paris China in memory of Jason this is the tombo and it's performed on the Baroque which of course differs from the modern flutes made of wood, it has only one key instead of the elaborate key system of the modern flute I can finally remember quite a bit artists in our community we will now introduce about the novel of Lou Harris the art of nice harmony within the Bermond Hall but as I watch her and think about her career I find myself astonished we know from reading and hearing that she's been at this for about 25 years and still it seems to me that her loneliness is about that 25 year old woman I don't start from zero delight through artistry I have had the great pleasure of enjoying in her recording of my six hearts of chord sonatas and I was delighted and I heard the quick dove made of the beginning reverses and I was on a vacation and she tried to date me to take with me and I had just one or two small suggestions to make when I called her she was already far from me we're looking forward to the recording now there's going to be a shift both of local and musical style you have been hearing music from what I call Northwest Asia and now you will be hearing music from Southeast Asia the role of music which you have been hearing is part of a large indoor repertoire and as you can see the streamed instruments would suffer in a profitable climate so with the sound boards of the hearts chords I remember the agony with which I watched a hearts chord in the Jose Mercedes home in Manila simply spreat used properly because of the tropical heat in the swelling in the tropics however many people have set it for metal and so we have typically outdoor music in the tropics the gap line which you will hear is from Bali and I believe it's made of bronze which is a preferred metal though iron is a second better in the tropics bronze does not really deteriorate and truth to tell most of the streamed instruments in the tropics too have metal wires or strings instead of silk or gut or even plastic which tends to melt under such conditions again typically of Indonesia is more or less out of doors yes there are beautiful porches in the palaces and there are ruins in which quiet music is playing but generally it's out of door music and the gap line which you will hear tonight is I think mostly played out of doors it is important also I think to remember that in her advocacy of contemporary music she also advocates contemporary Indonesian music and two of the pieces that you will be hearing are by the colonies in the Oman Sagana she was a distinguished head of department in the Indonesian conservatory as a Dalabung and head of that department and later part of the faculty of Dalam University the two pieces which you see listed are and a slug climbing a redwood tree which I understand is somewhat of an anthem for UCS and how we moderate in which I think a new corporation is pleased to our interests of the composer UC students and members of the Banjar Valley will play this will be followed by two dancers dancing dances which I think that Linda herself will explain more about to you because I'm unfamiliar with her they will have a group dance by Nima just to charity and Imade Surya that's on your program so you'll be able to follow incidentally the pie which is pronounced E indicates that it's a map and if it's Nhi or me it's a little bit, it's very simple so do the gathering outdoors in the tropics the fun about all of this culture is that it does travel very well to our own culture in a special way and surprises us when we just are leaving it for us so I think I really love the justice system