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greetings and welcome to amigi chamber ensemble’s first concert of the 21-22

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season first there was american beauty then there was american pie and there was

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american dad but before all that there was american berserk

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in fact the term was coined by philip roth in his landmark novel

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american pastoral and by that he meant that from time to time

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america has this innate and ingrained capacity to go absolutely

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bonkers furiously insane or insanely furious any way you want to look at it and

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we have tried to incorporate all these ideas in tonight’s concert

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to paraphrase abraham lincoln’s famous words this is music of the people

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by the people and for the people so we have the spiritual world of

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armenian american composer alan jovanes we have the spirit songs of

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african-american composer t.j anderson we have the work of

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quintessential of all american composers the very unique charles ives

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and we have two giants of contemporary american music

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john adams and john corliano we hope you enjoy

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tonight’s concert

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i think when most people think about contemporary music composers they think of people who are really

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really serious just sitting there trying to dream up weird and wonderful sounds but the composers that we have today

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not only have great imaginations but they also have good senses of humor tj anderson for instance who wrote

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shouts the piece for cello and piano that we’re playing was asked well what does he use for

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inspiration for writing a melody he says well any man or a woman in a bathtub can

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think of a good tune john adams also had a great sense of humor

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and he wrote this whole book of alleged dances for string quartet

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and in this he uses some very very strange and bizarre names like toot nipple and alligator escalator

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so i’m sure you will enjoy this music because it’s a lot of fun to play

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and i think you’ll like listening to it

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hi everybody thanks for tuning in to american berserk and welcome to the last piece on our program the red violin chicon by john

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corliano i first saw the movie the red violin in 1998 in the theaters and i was super

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excited because you know i’m a violinist and i get to see a movie about a violin

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i couldn’t have expected what it would turn into though this is now one of the most iconic movie soundtracks ever

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written and in a way brought the violin out of the classical music world a little bit and into the you know just

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the public realm of people who love music um there’s no difference between

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classical violin and movie violin of course it’s all the same but this now has become one of these pieces which has

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transcended the classical music world and is known by almost everybody who has ever gone to the movies or listened to a

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concert the chacon is a series of chord progressions that mr corliano used to

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tie together what he called a very episodic movie and on top all kinds of beautiful themes

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pyrotechnics for both the violin and the piano thanks for listening hope you enjoy it

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thanks very much everyone for listening to and watching our video we plan to do another one coming up in a

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few weeks if you would like to help we’d really appreciate it if you like

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