That set up will allow you to understand and go fall louder when the actual joke happens when Haydn really messes with you at the end of the movement Well now we and the audience in Charleston South Carolina are primed and ready to hear the piece including that joke the joke comes at the very end in about 20 minutes the string quartet Opus $33.00 Number 2 the joke or Tet by Joseph Haydn. The a. Little . Bit. The a. Man . The to. The a. Good . Oh. Yeah. Man. I am. The man. Handed. Her the. Yeah. A little. Thanks. Elaine. Man. Little. Man. I. The St Lawrence string quartet really playing up the musical misdirection and surprise in the final section of that piece the Joe quartet by Yosef Hyde or officially that's Haydn String Quartet in the flat major opus 33 Number 2 the St Lawrence quartet gave that concert during the Bank of America chamber music series at these Palladium festival USA in Charleston South Carolina chamber music from the festival USA presented by Bank of America and the e.t.v. Endowment South Carolina thanks to our friends at South Carolina Public Radio for that concert recording. Coming up in just a moment the importance of finding just the right pencil. You were listening to a.p.m. Performance today. Here's the opening paragraph from a 1030 essay by Virginia Woolf quote. No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil but there are circumstances in which it can become supreme Lee desirable to possess one moments when we are set upon having an object an excuse for walking half across the city when the desire comes upon us to go street rambling the pencil does for a pretext and getting up we say really I must buy a pencil as if under cover of this excuse we can indulge safely in the greatest pleasure of town life rambling the streets of London. That's from an essay called Street haunting by Virginia Woolf all about the joy of simply walking through the streets of a big busy bustling city a few years ago American composer Emily Cooley was living in Philadelphia and she loved taking long walks around that city coolies stumbled across the essay by Virginia Woolf was inspired to write a piece and borrowed the title of the essay Here's the final movement from St haunting by Emily Cooley. Do. Louis. Louis. American composer Emily Cooley was living in Philadelphia when she wrote that music few years ago and she loved the adventure of simply going on long walks around the city she happened to stumble across an essay by Virginia Woolf called Street haunting a reflection on the power of losing yourself and finding yourself while wandering in a busy city inspired by that essay and by her own walks Emily Cooley wrote the music we just heard it's called Street haunting we got the final movement from a concert in Philadelphia Shannon lead play the violin j h one Rimbaud Wong on viola Jean Kim play the cello they gave that concert at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Coming up in just a moment one of the underdogs of the orchestra in the solo spotlight. You're listening to a.p.m. Performance today. Priam I can remains to coach at the Aspen Historical Society starting December 4th the Aspen historical society presents a new exhibit celebrating the 100 birthday of the German school of design the bar house her buyer moved to Aspen in 1906 while newspaper accounts from buyers arrival indicate that many townsfolk of Aston were aware of his renown in the art world his presence in Aspen was not initially met with great enthusiasm for instance Walter Pepco offered free paint to Aspen homeowners in an effort to freshen up some of the Victorian homes but more has it that all but one home rejected the offer as they saw that it was a way for Pat good to promote the colors that buyer deemed to be acceptable one reporter noted if the royal family had a prime minister he was Herbert buyer Herbert Byron the Bauhaus housed how design shaped modern Aspen. Let's go to a concert at John's Hall in downtown Houston where we're about to hear a fascinating unusual piece of music. A gentleman named Sayres Koussevitzky wrote this in 1905 a course of its best known as a conductor he led the Boston Symphony for years well he was also a fine player of the double bass as a young man and he was a composer we're about to hear his 1905 concerto for double bass Robin Kesselman plays principal double bass in the Houston Symphony which means he's usually in the back row of the orchestra but for this concert he was front and center in the solo spotlight right alongside conductor on dresser Roscoe Estrada it's the concerto for double bass by Sears Koussevitzky. C. For. The whole. Bit. It. I'm one of the. The concerto for double bass an orchestra by Sears Koussevitzky Robin Castleman played the solo double bass then usually he stands in the back row of the orchestra his principal double bass in the Houston Symphony but here he was front and center right alongside conductor Andreas or Roscoe Estrada and the Houston Symphony in concert at Jones Hall in downtown Houston. Such a big muscular powerful part for solo double bass and a big chunk of that final movement is a 3 minute long cadenza where the only sound is the solo bass Robin Kesselman told the Houston Chronicle that moments like that only happen a few times in a career he wanted to make the most of it so Kesselman actually wrote his own cadenza he wove it into that performance of the concerto for double bass by Koussevitzky nice to hear one of the underdog. As of the orchestra in the solo spotlight. You can keep up with musical underdogs in all things Petey high signing up for our weekly newsletter with personal notes and perspectives from me in the p.t. Staff which only appear in that weekly email drop your address in the newsletter box on the p.t. Page your classical dot org slash performance today. I'm Fred Child this is performance today from a.p.m. American Public Media. This is Aspen Public Radio broadcasting on k h o x Aspen k.c. G.x. Carbondale support for Aspen Public Radio comes from Aspen community theatre presenting the Tony Award winning Broadway musical big river based on Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Nov 9th through the 18th at the Aspen district theatre tickets at the Wheeler or Aspen show text dot com. In the last piece he composed Beethoven wrote an enigmatic question and answer that scholars have been debating ever since Must it be it must be. That little theme is Beethoven's answer he says it must be but what has it that must be some say that because this is Beethoven's final composition he's talking about his own mortality others say it's more mundane than that that his housekeeper was asking for a raise and Beethoven had mixed feelings about that from a.p.m. American Public Media this is performance today I'm Fred child must it be it must be whatever it might be inspired Beethoven to write is extraordinary string quartet number 16 which is on the way during this hour of our show. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Winsor Johnston President Trump continues his campaign swing across the nation in a final push to drum up support for Republicans ahead of next Tuesday's midterms He's scheduled to hold campaign events in Montana Indiana and Florida this week N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports Trump will rally supporters in Missouri tonight President Trump has made it his mission to help defeat Democratic senators running for reelection in states he won in 2016 including Missouri he will make one more stop there on Monday the last in what will be in intense 4 days of campaigning 2 rallies a day on Friday Saturday and Sunday and 3 on Monday his themes are now familiar hitting hard on immigration bashing the press and Democrats by Trump's own account he expects g.o.p. 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News Washington the suspect charged in the deadly shooting at a Pennsylvania synagogue has pleaded not guilty on Lee herring from member station say reports Robert Powers appeared in federal court today this was Robert Powers 2nd court date since the Saturday attack that left 11 dad and 6 injured he were red jumpsuit and was represented by 2 public defenders during the 10 minute hearing prosecutors read the 44 charges against him and told him he could face the death penalty the suspect did not make eye contact with the attorneys but appeared to listen intently a grand jury charged him Wednesday with fatally preventing the Free Exercise of Religion in committing firearms offenses the government said in a complaint filed the night of the shooting that the accused gunman made anti-Semitic statements during the attack the case is set to go to jury trial for n.p.r. News I'm only herring and pay. Open enrollment begins today for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act N.P.R.'s Allison Kojak reports the program is stable this year despite the trumpet ministrations efforts to weaken it they trumpet ministration lower reduce the enrollment period to about 6 weeks from last year and those are for the states that are on the federal marketplace some states have their own marketplaces and those have longer in Roman periods but most analysts say they expect to see a similar level of enrollment in states where there's longer Roman periods and more marketing like California or New York they are likely to see maybe an uptick N.P.R.'s Allison Kojak reporting open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act ends on December 15th at last check on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 264 points the Nasdaq Composite up 128 the s. And p. 500 up 28 this is n.p.r. News. A new report from the u.s. Department of Agriculture finds that people who read it calorie labels on restaurant menus and fast food menu boards and up consuming less N.P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports the new study finds that people who consult calorie counts on fast food menu boards consume about 180 fewer calories over the course of the day compared to those who don't see or pay attention to the calories at a time when more than one in 3 Americans eat fast food on a given day the new study suggests mandatory calorie posts can make a difference not everyone notices the calorie counts but the study finds 44 percent of those who do report using the nutrition information to help decide what to order Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News Washington a wide band of storms is moving through parts of the south the storm prediction center is forecast operations chief Bill Bunting says the system has spawned several tornadoes reports of tornadoes large hail damaging thunderstorm winds and unfortunately looking at the data coming in we've had over $130.00 reports of damaging wind and a tornado so for across portions of Louisiana and Mississippi at least 2 fatalities have been attributed to the storms one death reported in Texas and other in Mississippi the severe weather is expected to move east Forecasters say the main threat will be heavy rain damaging winds and isolated tornadoes especially near the Gulf Coast I'm Windsor Johnston and you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include exact sciences offering color guard for average risk adults over 50 noninvasive colon cancer screening tasks that can be used at home by prescription only information and color guard tested dot com. From a.p.m. American Public Media this is performance today I'm Fred child with a daily guided tour of today's classical scene reheard Wagner was an almost unknown 26 year old composer when he went to a concert one night in Paris it was the premiere of Romeo and Juliet a dramatic symphony by actor barely 0 subpoenas for orchestra and singers. Was thrilled by what he saw his new ambitious configuration a symphony with lots of singers and storytelling and drama. Got straight to work trying to write his own symphony with singers and storytelling and drama he thought he would tell the story of Faust this smart ambitious guy who trades his soul to the devil Wagner got the 1st movement written 12 minutes for just orchestra but then he got so busy writing operas that he never finished the piece that single movement was published as Wagners Faust overture and let's hear it from a concert in Copenhagen Edward Gardiner conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Why. The. Paul. The war with the the. The poor the bit. 2 with 2 her out by. The hour the poor the and the and the poor the hour with to. Hold. The ever. Little old. The one. The World. For Earl. Blue.