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there’s a little waltz by composer

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Francis puno and there there’ll be some

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pool ankh music at the wonderful amici

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chamber ensembles 25th anniversary

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concert coming up march first at koerner

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hall with many many special guests among

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them isabel by rec Darien Isabel’s with

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us here and now welcome thank you and

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David Hetherington from ova me she is

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here thanks very much I’m gonna start

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with David said okay cuz 25 years

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ago you got together with a couple of

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other folks and said why don’t we make

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some music among friends and that’s

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where a miche gave her exactly that’s

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how it happened Joaquin and I were both

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playing Toronto Symphony and it still

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are and what Canyon always thought of

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having a chamber music ensemble and we

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thought well we’d better get a pianist

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and and we had worked with Pat at the

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University Patricia fire pictures are

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partners right and so we had played a

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couple of times together we thought this

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is great so we’ll start our own series

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and then we can decide what music we do

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and then invite all of our friends from

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the past and from the present and and

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from the future to come and play with us

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now the piano player now he’s a fellow

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you know this bill suroosh Kalenjin

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until tell us how he got involved many

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years ago actually it happened to

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coincide on the first time I was singing

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with the amici and he was the pianist

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for that concert is right that season I

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believe you had a different pianist for

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each concert that was because Patricia

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wasn’t well and we had to find someone

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and suddenly discovered that suroosh was

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married to his about mm-hmm amici has

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become la familia know yeah so you

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didn’t meet you didn’t meet there you

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know we were already married we’re

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already a couple well it’s a wonderful

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concert that’s coming up you’ve had a

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wonderful history and Isabelle your

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career just keeps going up and up and up

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let’s talk about the program at Turner

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hall on March the first and in

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particular let’s talk about who else is

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going to be there David you’ve brought

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most of the Toronto Symphony I mean

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that’s right well we brought the the

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best players in town and it just so

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happens that many of those players are

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in the

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symphony orchestra we of course wanted

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to have Isabel on the program so the

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second half of the program which I’m

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sure she’ll talk about features her the

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first half is the Beethoven septet and

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it was our thought we’d try and get

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several players who had been with us

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right at the beginning for example we

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have Barry Shipman playing viola with us

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and Barry happened to be on our very

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first concert in 1988 and he was just

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getting started was still basically a

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student huh and so he’s now the

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associate dean of the Royal Conservatory

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so thought it would be be fantastic

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after a marvelous performing career yeah

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so so we we have and we have all the

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other people on the program have worked

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with amici through the years so this is

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well we’re talking about Jonathan crow

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and Murray berard and Jeffrey Beecher

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and Sarah Geoffrey and Michael Sweeney

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and Neil the land and Andrew McCandless

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and percussion is Beverly Johnston

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everybody’s going to have a part now you

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mentioned the Beethoven piece there’s

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also a piece by our national tell us

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about that that’s right this is a piece

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for piano string quartet and soprano and

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this is something that isabel has been

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what she does it a lot do you not it’s

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it said I don’t think there exists any

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other chamber piece for voice string

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quartet and and piano that’s as as

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perfect and as genius as this piece it

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is um just I’ve done it a couple of

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times and and it truly truly takes your

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breath away this is the show self

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publishers rush also made me do L yes

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and why do they call it that like it

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must end at some time no because she is

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we see her at the beginning remembering

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her past reliving her past and coming

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back to the present and realizing that

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the present actually the tears are the

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same tears that she had when her whole

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love affair started so it’s this

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constant a recurring theme that she’s in

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a loop that she can’t get out of so it’s

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sean sean pettit well she’ll sing this

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for the rest of her life

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marvelous then what else are you going

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to be performing follow after additional

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some pretty well it’s a very quirky a

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whimsical comical piece by francis

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poulenc concern yes and bizarre and

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surreal we can add so many adjectives by

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francis poulenc laval maski and it is a

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piece for voice female a well voice and

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i’ll call it a mini orchestra really

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because it has a percussion and so many

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so many instruments in it and it’s

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called a a profane cantata can’t act up

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so can Tata you know you’d think but no

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it’s a profane yeah and so automatically

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you know that it’s a piece that’s you

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shouldn’t expect the usual from it um

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it’s a from an instrumental point of

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view David well it’s very quirky sh and

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the instruments come in and I think a

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lot of it is representative of the of

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the stories that are being told some of

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the poetry and some of the bizarre

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situations that occur there’s a little

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passage in the cello which i think is is

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representing somebody spraining his

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ankle or something going up the

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cobblestone that’s quick yeah something

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like that I like the Oscars last night

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when that actress trip going to that’s

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really reward so it’s nice to know

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what’s going on in the story so that you

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can understand what this crazy passages

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that you have to play and all of the

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instruments take part in that of course

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there’s another fun another piece for

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the composer with whom I’m not terribly

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familiar I don’t think our audiences

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monal salvage montserrat montérégie

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javier machado g is a catalan composer

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he died actually 92 yes no no no 2002 I

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ten years I don’t know decades until I

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believe and he he’s actually most famous

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for this cycle a single country on his

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or five black songs now they are

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a very very exotic sexy the selection of

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songs but also they are very blatant

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commentary political commentary on the

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American occupation of both Haiti and

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Cuba so it he makes a lot of digs at the

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American foreign policy which is valid

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even today I would say careful very

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popular very very popular target the art

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usually performed either piano voice

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version or the full orchestral version

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and for this concert suroosh has

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arranged it for the forces that we have

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at hand and so this is a going to be

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performed in a chamber setting for the

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first time on friday I each song is very

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very different from the rest it has a

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beautiful lullaby that of course I right

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now personally relate to very very much

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it has as I said it’s just it’s it’s

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amazing for once to sync politically

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charged song as opposed to just all nice

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love song I mean how often do you get a

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chance to a comment on American soldiers

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whistling after the local Cuban girl

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mmhmm yeah you’re still singing

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lullabies to your little one I always do

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I always do and both of them now it’s

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not just one my daughter was born 11

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weeks ago and for both of them it’s it’s

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amazing i go to my son’s room i do the

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usual 56 well he has a particular order

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I should single management and I leave

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him and I go to the other babies ruin

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and I told process starts again show

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some pretty well the daily concert very

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lady kids indeed to have Isabel by rec

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Darien singing to them labada mosque SS

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key celebrating 25 years of the amici

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ensemble march first friday night eight

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o’clock at koerner hall here’s we go for

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tickets triple WRC music CA have you

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started rehearsing yet or we have we

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have i can imagine the energy in the

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room well we got all the

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instrumentalists together a couple

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weeks ago sir ooze of course has done a

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lot of the arranging so he wanted to

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make sure that it actually worked and

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and also both the composition salmon

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ceviche and the pool ankur actually

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intended to be done with conductor but

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we’re a chamber music ensemble so we

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don’t do conductors mm-hmm so we thought

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well we better make sure this will work

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and it’s going to be just fine what’s

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the way more fun without a conductor

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what’s the word do you superfluous or

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redundant those were your words not mall

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David hetherington thank you for being

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with this Isabel by rec Darian always a

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pleasure thank you so much and we look

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forward to this performance Isabel

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joining the amici chamber ensemble

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Friday night koerner hall part of the

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royal conservatory season of which we

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of that Beethoven septet

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