It's hard to harpsichord to introduce this 1st segment of open air arts Minerva the bay area nonprofit devoted to resurrecting forgotten operas from the Italian Baroque is presenting to many Co Friskies. This weekend at o.t.c. Theater in San Francisco Friday and Saturday at 730 Sunday afternoon at 230. The artistic director joins me in studio Metz a soprano selling Ricci also executive director of arse Minerva where she sang and and directed several productions was born in Florence Italy and later studied in Paris and London later recognized by renowned conductor William Christie for his academy she's been heard around the world the country and around the bay as during the 201617 season she sang Nero and the west edge opera production of I going to Pina and also at R.'s Lyrica at the Berkeley early music festival conducting the opera from the harpsichord is a multi Grammy nominated George even equal or a waltz or joins me in studio and we're hearing him in the background performing some brass joy is recognized as one of the outstanding harpsichordist of his generation has cultivated on highly diversified worldwide performing career as concerto soloist accompanist and conductor as well as a recording artist as you hear among his many recordings his recording of Bach. The Goldberg Variations on Delos was named by the Chicago Tribune as one of 2001 top 10 classical C.D.'s with similar honors bestowed on his recording of Bach's to caucus locally he has conducted performances of Handel's sall with Philharmonia baroque and led the West opera aforementioned production of Handel's repeat now he will correct me on some of that in a moment. In extension of his widely respected endeavors both are Skordas and conductors where he is a big advocate for historically informed performance practices Jory welcome to open air thank you for having me and maybe offer me that correction. Just to say they out. Saw by Handel I was thrilled to play organ and the carry on the bells are the direction of. Your friends wouldn't want to upstage him you know really keep them in a good graces. That's Nic I'm sorry if you hear this. And Celine Welcome to you and thank you David for inviting us of course well this is the 2nd argument over production that has its origin story in Venice tell us how you and whoever else might have been involved in discovering the music. So was me nervous we started in 2015 we had some of the nation opera and last year we had an opera from now it was actually premiered in Munich by skill of the nation composing. And so when I started on has me Nirvana I really wanted to recreate operas and because when I was performing as a singer I thought the preview legs and opportunity to be involved in many creations. And so I've been researching during some years and I've been creating files in My Computer. Well I've stored. Quite a bit of author as and especially from Venice Yes So what kind of shape are these and have these already been discovered and properly notated or are we looking at regional manuscripts that still have the ink stains on them what exactly. Manuscripts that have an ink. And then mistakes and sometimes all other notes are read in on them and so we need a little be mystically hurts sure's with him missing parts and even in vocal lines Ok is the musical nomenclature the same of from 16 hundreds of Vienna or is there actual you've got to translate it for a modern musician to interpret it's we need to do a modern score absolutely in what sort of differences does one see. All of the basic nomenclature as you put it can remain rather the same we have certain rhythmic quirks for instance an early Italian music note foul use tend to be doubled which can be rather off putting to the modern musician measure of lines are frequently different reinstated which is not necessary such a major ordeal and in the type of manuscript that serene provided. It's been very hastily noted on paper it's not certain to me what was used as performance material in 1680 so although a musicologist I think in Poland prepared this and modern score I know the rest spent many many many hours many hours not only correcting over this gentleman's back but even just going back into the original score and trying to find the composers intentions and also about did the manuscript dishonest create its from the. Inequality Sunni content any. Collection is that to be a take home out of China and any was a noble Venetian man who collected old tools and manuscript in the 17th century including to put it out soon of people Bam into vanity and he's family. And protect everything during 2 centuries and in 1903 they donated everything to be did they come out of China where he still now I must be a treasure trove it's really a treasure because there are these are really a regional. Thing God to Michael Anthony caped kept everything and I would like to add this particular opera was actually created in his own theatre because he was a big fan of opera Wow Naturally we're all thinking of Venice at this time Oh yes the flooding catastrophe Let's hope there are no manuscripts hidden in some flooded basements apparently you know it's I don't know but it's not good frightening Yes So George. Bringing us back to performance practice you're a big advocate for making sure things are done right but how do you know with that things are done right and how long the note should be held how do you know I mean of all of it is so subjective I know I am not somebody who's buried my head in treatises and doctrines for years a rot of this is based on practice right to God So you know I've worked with some of the finest musicians who have been able to ascertain what I find convincing what's coming from certain other conductors or groups I find less convincing and for instance when we work in rich to Tivo passages this is to say operas of Munter Verity So going back even to the very beginning of 17th century going all the way even say into the Mozart point the operas when we see very very long bass notes written for all the rich the Teves. I think we've kind of figured out well yes it's kind of the structure harmonically of the of these pages of music but it behooves the person praying be it for to piano or harpsichord or fear of always and so forth to find out what are the real grounds of these note how do we punctuate what the singers are speaking about how do we under a time as heighten it. So there's a lot of decision making to be made some of it I have kind of done what is the word de facto but before my partners ever get their hands on the music so I've treated some of it in advance of that and others rediscover together right and Celine as a vocalist ornamentation is that something that is added spontaneously or is thought out in advance for the most part or these performances so of course it depends. I mean in the past we know that singers could. Improvise every night something different and for discount of all for us 17th century opera these are not big Arias like. For Vivaldi where you really have a pool and that this could be very. This is these are really little on them and it's it's not a lot of the options it's not it's not a lot. It's more about that with just a little around and but of course normally a singer. Style is allowed to change every night if he she wants that's the tradition if you stay in style. So so one by one as these are being discovered in the coffee stains or being removed in the missing parts or added are definitive performing editions then being provided and stored in a library proper. So what we have is in my computer or in print that. I would love in the future to be able to really go over all the author as we did really making lots of edits because we always find me staking takes some years to have really a great critical edition and maybe being able to use to have me know via or source on it sure but hopefully we need more fundraising for the. Other And. If I may be right out of that since this is my 1st experience with Iris Minerva under in December Linda I have provided my own performing edition which is very different from a kind of Urtext edition In other words I've already added the bass notes side out and run 2nd spoke about vocal ornamentation for the few pieces out to require anything I sort of out of it where even you were initially unaware of things which they may broadly from me I'm not the composer in a proper text edition these can be put in the back as index but I would have to re prepare something which simply reflects the composer's score and not the way we came together to perform it so tell us a little bit about the composer the minute go for rescue 16 operas some extant sacred music which is probably helpful for interpretation Yeah so 16 operas and I actually I would like to see 15 because this is so very funny 3 years ago we plead I cheated to. Take them out of China in Venice says that it's from the meaningful free ski but it's actually put on the red Zeani several times gravel and I thought all of them because I actually 3 ski also route. But it's not the one do you think they have the habits of kids around that had Zeani and now that we are recreating a free ski decidedly is very different and. Really beach I'm sure that. They have instant Siani now defacing So 15 operas. And 11 still alive. And I have some of them and hopefully we'll be able to to do them as we go. So frisky and was actually doing 5 years director of the private theatre of magical quintet even as an ordained priest as well you know or so he was and he was a priest was a priest and composer for a for Dittrich I don't know his secret music. And very few pieces of the theme have been recreated. I think that we are to 1st opera actually to be recreated from him I believe this happens what we have certainly I've never observed and it's a pity because it's really beautiful it's a legal muster piece in many nasally is a masterpiece he it's very clever and. I'm a means that no one ever did it. When Saleem shared the score with me which was already put into a modern notation story is able at least to basically easily access my inner ear while reading because I thought you know it's a rather nice piece I immediately understood its family relation to better known composers like a volley or chesty but only when I brought the score here to San Francisco and on the 1st day of rehearsing with our singers and working at it I immediately came to Serene's conclusion that this is genuine forgotten masterpiece not just a lovely piece it's extraordinarily adroitly written going from comedy to somewhat tongue in cheek yet sincere tragedy you know about the last one of the game. Going from amusing to deeply or. No time at all right now it's the incident many more piece it's really well let's talk a little bit about the plot by that and so we're. Going to reestablish your example you think about the bite size version of the talking with Selena artistic director and artistic and executive director of ours Minerva along with harpsichordist conductor or even a core about this incredible opera that's really been brought to life the 1st time since 1618 which is just extraordinary to me yes so what are we going to hear about . This opera. Some of this opera is. The story of a young girl very weighty who as every young girl wants to have fun. But her father has not had the same view for her and so he brings are far from the cd far from every entertainment an amusement potential lover and he brings her to the countryside. And her father is a tiranny call and kind of. Crazy and so she is she she's bored to she wants to go back to court and a cd but he doesn't want he wants her to stay with 2 other friends in the countryside. And I mean dawdle but. As a lover in the main city and a lot of her is the prince of finish up so the prince of Phoenicia is looking for her but he. Has a life to he's Prince schools for a peasant clothes and a peasant attitude of a trope by the way. He's a detective and so he actually is placed in the form of Finney shall we choose up to 11 m. O. And if you for this is kind of young tell you. So I wanted it to be like. Like the composer and only Brett is the Venetian people who dream about Middle East that I have never been to meet Elise and see you know all the Venice all those boats coming from Middle East and bringing old those amazing things and people being all of this is me. And so imagine the Middle East. So this is the vision and so yeah it's a comedy with also tragic moments about. Who wants to be free and with the man she loves and her father trying to overprotect her and even being awful. With all their. Incredible characters around me and I wonder and I ask Serena who knows his period so incredibly well but I'm finding more and more that despite the rightness of this piece that it really has something to say. In feminism Yes I really do think so of course there are many feminine heroes in Baroque operas thinking of coronation of Pope but she manipulates not out of love but to gain power. As powerful by her feminine wiles this charming character really just wants to be free Exactly and free to and she wins by resolution on her fortitude and her fidelity if I can say that and not by. Not by a stereotypical feminine exiles and Wiles at seems to me very interesting Yeah so yeah seems to beginning of ours me nervous I on purpose choose opera as that highlight strong women but in different ways our 1st off was there is no much with Cleopatra who is still nowadays is the most powerful woman ever. But it is in another way. Rebellious and want to. Be herself and not be dictated what she has to do I mean you should make a footnote there that this Cleopatra will take 2nd place when the opera Nancy Pelosi is yes. Yes Can you sing that great city. You should give a shout out to tickle a prince who is in the title role in the cause. And the productions are tomorrow and Saturday at 730 Sunday afternoon at 230. I'm going to leave the last word with you to even if you are about the orchestra involved and the unusual instruments that will see will be an original incidents Yes And so we're using the period instruments. We have a small group that said fresh key provides a certain number of orchestral interludes or return Alley these are invariably written as 4 parts strings so to a violin and viola the boss will continue a line to say cello with either 3 or bow harpsichord or both. And I have provided my own. Compositional Well 3 return only that I just wanted to have more string writing and we keep this one player per part and I can be in your research and especially as this Reza performed in a private theatre that Fresca himself would have used a very small group maybe or maybe not with a couple of recorders how did it so it's a wonderful group of local bay people great and English subtitles I imagine indeed yes English super Tarsa nerve or a g. For more information sure of unique or. Sitting Ricci's thanks so much for coming in to shame thank you for inviting us. Yes. Yes. Yes 6. Yes. I. Was. Saying. That it lets. Us. Was. The. Some of the wonderful singing of Nicola prince in last year's production of if she was singing the role of king admin then I'm an Amazon once again ever Linda is it o.t.c. Theater tomorrow Saturday at 730 Sunday at 230 and from ation at r c a r s Minerva dot au r g I Very good afternoon to you I'm David not to leap Still to come Peter Robinson will offer some advice on how to make your own family a memoir and the art of memoir writing a review of the crown on Netflix also speak with pianist live on xna swith the San Francisco Symphony this week. Well circuit to sell A's latest show has been playing under the big top at Oracle Park in San Francisco since November 7th and as usual is quite a sight as with any series and I've seen the storyline seems secondary to the amazing gravity defying acrobatics that you'll see out of the very big top but here's the promise of the latest show now it running through January 12th the scene a mysterious island ruled by goddesses after directing her daughters coming of age ceremony honoring femininity renewal rebirth and balance Queen prosperity causes a storm a group of young men washed up on the isle triggering an epic love story between prosperities daughter and a brave young suitor there this is a love that will be tested. Well originally composed of some 20 street performers in 1904 Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has completely reinvented circus arts and went on to become a world leader and live entertainment established in Montreal the Canadian organization has brought wonder and delight to over 200000000 spectators and has performed in some 450 cities in 60 countries the organization currently has over 4500 employees including 1400 artists from nearly 70 countries one of those employees joins me today in studio in fact the leading on stage role it's nice to see and hear a musician in the lead role that of Queen prosperity no less and she and her colorful cello and beautiful voice make for quite an impression on stage and I'm very pleased that she's joined me in studio Amandas it out hails from l.a. Where she worked as a freelance musician recording for t.v. Cartoons and video games at the ripe old age of 16 she began touring Europe in Asia performing with various orchestras and pop bands and has been with Syria since 2011 welcome Amanda. Thank you for having me and stunning production I mean and you looks spectacular there it must be nice to have a leading role now tell us 1st about the cello you're wielding it's quite an instrument Yes it is. It is a carbon fiber Lewis and Clark The thing that makes it unique is that I actually have to walk around on stage while playing so there's a harness that's fitted to the cello right and it stays on my left shoulder so it kind of hangs on my left shoulder and I walk around the stage playing and singing and it's blue and it's raining yeah blue and gold to match the you know the colors of the show yeah yeah there's a full live band behind you as well and various incarnations now would be betraying a trade secret if I asked if any of your cello playing is prerecorded at all why it is all live how yes it's all live and so tell us about the score itself and the composer Well it's 2 composers actually Bob and Bill there know they've been they've composed a few Cirque du Soleil shows. And further this show what they really wanted to do was 1st of all it's an all female band and they really wanted to highlight seems to be a highlight of the day show how strong women. You know it is that. It's yeah where their 1st Cirque du Soleil band to have all females and they really want to do something different with this show with the music. Generally has a what I would say like a world sound world world leave music kind of sound like something is theory a while and. Otherworldly but with this show the kind you wanted it more to be I would say more rock there are elements of course of some ethereal. Songs in there but it's mainly rockets really showcasing. You know we've got 2 guitarists we've got bass we've got drums and percussion in the girls are just really rocking out on stage. And. Tell me about your transition how did you audition for this did you have to go through some physical I mean you're obviously a fine cellist they knew that for mother productions I was elected by the land a role that's on stage so prominently and yeah this was because the 1st show that I did with them was just cello and Danny Elfman head composing music for this one so is very much more I would say closer to classical you know and moving music. And so I was also playing keyboards on that show but for this one it was a singer cellist role plus character work so there was acting involved I had never done that before along with playing cello and you know of course in music school you do vocal performances a while. But I had never actually done all 3 at the same time so I went through a lot of training in Montreal at the headquarters and they prepared me very well for this role is there any improvisation involved or is it all established it's mainly established Yes. You know because we are we're working with acrobats and we are following what's happening on stage so. If if a trick goes wrong let's say you are if something's not ready and you know with an aerial act in it's going to take a while for something to be ready it's funny you mention that because I saw the show last night and I had a dream this show last night where someone made an error but they didn't make any. Money in my dream show that you saw So you saw it last night which is funny because last night actually there was a part where I did have to improvise a little because the there's a part where these polls come down from the air in these. Those are just just hanging on this these polls and they weren't ready yet the polls weren't ready so they in my ears they told me too little he didn't know him when he got them so I just you know just improvised a little before that and then they tell me Ok we're ready Ok paid up from the top Yeah we should mention that you're you're not I mean you're the cycle you're not being jettisoned into the air by a cast mate or being spun from the ceiling on a rope as you all of which you'll see not yet. Still very prominently featured as the queen of the production Yeah yeah there are some truly amazing acrobatics involved in the show some of which advance the plot and others maybe not so much but it's a joy to behold and the to secondary to the spectacle so you keeping track of the number of shows that you've been performing. I guess another. No I haven't kept track personally I mean the show's been around for almost 8 years I've been with them for 6 of those years and so definitely have played for upwards of a 1000000 people you always have the same performance venue in terms of that and that big top rolls around but tell us about a city that you especially enjoyed being pitched at. I would have to say Paris. Definitely would have my favorite cities but. We were very welcomed by the Persians I have to say they really enjoyed the show so it was a pleasure to be there and also. When we were in London we played the Royal Albert Hall so we cut it ditched the tent for the. Whole and that of course has been a dream of mine since I was a kid to perform there so it was you know truly 900 you know performed there nice so does this particular production of I'm alone to have a set run or is it open ended do you know when your how much talk you're going to be doing it we'll see only time will tell if we go to Sacramento next after sunrise so you'll have an opportunity through January 12th here by A.T.T.'s park then moving up to Sacramento for a month in. Mid January Amanda We really enjoyed the performance last night and I wish you continued wonderful run you'll also enjoy a rather impish lizard like creature who wreaks havoc with audience members before the show begins fair warning if you're in the front row with a bag of popcorn it may be snatched from you and subsequently tossed back peddled by Colonel from lizard boy that is true it's a lot of fun and would make for a terrific holiday outing option to learn more through our website calle w dot org have links to the production of Cirque du Soleil at $82.00 park we do have some music the tempest scene which features you probably tell us about that song so this is when my character prosper I cause a storm. Out on the ocean in order for a ship to become shipwrecked that's full of men I kind of like that see myself. Yeah it's a fun theatre I had. A man does it out performing in certain ways I'm Features. A man does it and the tempest scene from. Now sear can do so Larry. Really a fun production to catch if you've got some folks in town for the holidays through the 12th of January here in San Francisco then moves up to Sacramento Well now for something completely different as they say the San Francisco Symphony were being treated to the wonderful pianist artistry of life over ons PNAS will be performing Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 2 tomorrow and Saturday evening at 8 Sunday afternoon at 2 men Fred ha Nick on the pro on the podium and 4th symphony also part of the program I caught up with late earlier this week at Davy Symphony Hall. Life welcome to open air thank you very much we were hoping to see you in these parts at the beginning of 2019 but you had to bow out due to an elbow injury I believe how are things healing. Very well. It was. A result of a lot of concerts and suddenly you know for the 1st time in my life I had a. Strain Injury. And it's a bit of a shock to me to counsel 2 or 3 months of concerts. But today I'm actually happy happy that it happened because I lost a lot I got lessons in anatomy from really great therapists and I and all of them or about my arms it's about time when you're 49 and a pianist to get to know these things and so. But it was it was tough last it's now much stronger and I love being said to him Give me an opportunity to slow down things a little bit too I imagine he did and you know it's remarkable when you talk with musicians and most musicians will go and get some problem at some some point in their career. But I will try to learn from it you know is there something you need to adjust something you do a little bit wrong muscles you could use more or less you know. And yeah I feel like grateful that I got to substance and perhaps dispense more time with your very young family also that was a bonus Yeah well this is Mozart's Penticton opera 22 written at a particularly challenging time financially for Mozart around $1875.00. 1 of 3 concertos from that same year when this 29 year old composer was still trying to establish himself in Vienna where he had moved a few years before and was besieging his publisher before and others for money. Young and Well if it was money problems or whatever this is a special time I don't know what why it was so creative for him but but this year 7858486 he wrote incredible piano concertos in 84 already he wrote 6 piano concertos. And then when he starts with a d. Minor number 20 in 70 and 85 beginning of 7985 it's like he's suddenly expands the whole genre and he separates the soloist more from the from the orchestra so you feel the soloist like you and the individual. And orchestras sometimes aside I mean you know you can. You can make stories or whatever a bit but there is and he brings in more and more sort of mystic wind instruments I believe this is the 1st contract where he brings in the clarinet. As a flutist I'm really enjoying the flute parts in it seems like he took a lot of care in the woodwinds for these concerti fantastic I mean more and more how how he gives I mean in this country in this concerto in the 2nd movement there along parts where I don't play you know it's just it's just variations of the difference sort of instruments in the wind section. It's tremendous how we expanded the. Piano Concerto in 2 or 3 years from something which was very much. More. About dialogue all the time between the orchestra and the piano to the beginning of what became the romantic Piano Concerto which is Sister of heroic role of the of the soloist in a way I mean it's mostly about still about. This great communication between the different histories I mean there's such a fantastic operatic feeling in his piano concertos. But there is also the feeling that it's gets more and more. I've been thinking and I was studying this concerto again how surprisingly of a choice it is has certainly passed. As suddenly passages that Kurds remind you of lists you know. And you don't expect that we'll. Be talking about variations in the work that the orchestra self is doing the great French composer Olivier Messi and thought of the andante movement as a series of variations and attitudes towards death hopelessness revulsion oppression Celeste deal cancellation and certainty of rebirth he writes what one man's opinion or do. You feel that as well and you see environmental factors like his finances or like his mortality coming into view in his writing. I don't know if we can tell that this might be because of financial problems or mortality issues or consciousness but but certainly I think I see I was right I didn't know that you had these descriptions of these different variations and I think that's very beautiful I have been thinking myself that this is this is very much. A moment to. Death and. The end of the movement there's a remarkable feeling of saying farewell. And it's one of his most touching pieces. It's incredible that he has disability I mean he's music is so much about beauty and the parts. And attainment also just enjoyment and then there are these moments of solitary lowliness such darkness. Often in in in moments which are. Which are entertaining there will be this short. Moments of darkness and then there's suddenly that like moment like this where there is so much trauma it's. And it's very very spiritual using. A couple of years ago you embarked on a massive Beethoven journey of performance and recording as well as video now with Mozart in fact this Piano Concerto Number 22 is slated to be recorded with the Mahler chamber orchestra you're collaborating ensemble for the Beethoven for a future release on Sony Classical now is this part of a grand scheme do you have other composers that you're going to treat Similarly I don't know I mean this this came as a result of our Beethoven journey as we called it between 12201215 where the modern Chamber Orchestra when I play it repeatedly to all the Beethoven concertos and recorded them. And I felt especially the last year that there was such a freedom as been 18 concerts and I was longing to make another project with them I'm leading from the keyboards I did that with the Beethoven as well so we don't have a conductor. And now we do a project called Mozart momentum where we choose these 2 years actually $78586.00 and we play 5 piano concertos and also chamber music and sort of piano music from the same years. And we'll do numerous concerts and it can be curated in different ways the orchestra sometimes play. Place symphonies by Haydn or other composers from the same years so to have a comparison it was happening. And I'm really looking forward to it because they're fantastic ensemble and I love working and in that intimate way with them seems like a great collaboration partnership there absolutely and the opportunity to do it over a longer time and this project will also last until the end of 2022 or so. And I just know that you know when we have played again these pieces in different tours that there's a different feel. Speaking of the 22nd again the piano can generally be doing this with her group launched at the separatist symphonies conductor laureate later in January with the Berlin Philharmonic who 1st to whom in such a collaboration and interpretation with that eminence agrees on the podium whose 1st story who defers to whom in terms of interpretation you might imagine you're learning something from that and vice versa in your and particular interpretation. Certainly I think you know sometimes it's a question of who's the strongest but I think in this. In this case and certainly with Mozart. There is so much given taking this music and there are many parts where the soloists will be will be leading. Other parts were certainly I will be very attentive to what the conductor is doing and and I always want to work with you know a strong personalities strong conductors because I want to learn something new from them. And certainly with some Brahms starts. Who was the 1st conductor I worked with her in San Francisco I think back in 95 and that's also the 1st week that I met m.t.t. Because he was at that concert. But that was the 1st time I worked. And I worked many times with him yes he's still going strong and so wonderful and he has a sense of that music wonderful sense of Mozart so look forward to that always learning from him but not Hanukkah on the podium for this concert month Fred and that meant. It's somebody I've been working with also several times maybe especially with Mozart actually. He yeah I mean he has this Viennese sense of Mozart this sort of. He's very good at catching the different. Characters I mean most of the also can be elusive but you have also to have. A sense of which character you want he is great with the string players to get them to play with different colors for different for the different passages Another great thing in this music is that. You will have 4 bars of one character and then it is changing to something different and a month for this is really a mastering in catching these small subtle changes and make them into different colors for the strings or or. Yeah in terms of character. You have do you have a favorite pianist interpreter of Mozart that you would Myron that you've looked up to over the years. I can't say I have one particular. Pianist from the past that I I think of when it comes to Mozart because there are you know everybody played Mozart and there are some wonderful recordings by. By Schnabel or making largely or whatever but. I'm not thinking of one pianist you know some of this music by Beethoven Mozart. Was going to novel that's what it's it's greater than we can ever be played so there is this feeling. Of so with a great pianist that. Love this one can want to just try to reach to the light in the end of the tunnel so. You have a particular piano of choice or does it depend on the composer Maybe it depends on if your have a relationship with a piano company. Does it Mozart better on a Steinway versus a bosun or 4 I mean these days I mean I I do play normally on a Steinway and I do prefer. I do prefer the Steinway. And that's especially in the bigger concert hall where you need this kind of glowing sound which I think the us in a very unique way. You know sometimes I wish that it was more like a 100 years ago when you had 7 or 8 companies that were all popular and one some pianists preferred this company to. And they were more competing today most of us. Relied very much on on Steinway and unfortunately they are they I I love that sound did you hear that Steinway I think that counts in a Dorfman. And have you there out of curiosity or performance worked with early pianos just to see how what composers were actually working with when they compose these works absolutely I I have I have not played much concerts on certainly not on piano not not on pianos from Mozart's time I've played some. Concerts on on pianos from the 19th century. When you get back to you know 790. Sorum $780.00 s. What it was was a time of Mozart that's really a stretch from the modern piano that is really a different piano but we have to know about it and we have to know how how it sounded so but it is of course a very different thing to play it on the modern instruments. I love listening to some recordings of fronts but on the other hand to put a 780 piano into David's whole it's it wouldn't work it wouldn't project I mean these these pianists where we're made for smaller rooms there were you know 111 play these concertos 4 for 2 or 300 people not for 2000 people which we hope we'll have for these performances Thanks for taking some time like Thank you pleasure. Over on this performance Mozart with the separatist go symphony man for an on I Can the podium also requires 4th symphony as part of that equation Well piano of a different type to introduce this next segment. And Peter Robinson's contributions to this week. Play it Sam. The. Great delete Wilson from Casablanca for Peter's segment on a memoir speaking of memories. How David Yeah good to be here and of course that is the a more full song which conjures up all sorts of images one question you may want to ask yourself Who were you with when you last saw Casablanca or can't you talk about it so that's the question Thanksgiving is coming up the family is around the table sometimes it's a happy get together and sometimes it indeed ends in disruption but one thing's for sure this could be just the right moment to consider writing a family memoir and the family memoirs have wall the pros and cons of any good memoir have but if you want to approach the subject I think the 1st thing to do is to establish of those friends guests family uncles aunts sisters brothers who are sitting around the table who would agree to be interviewed and I think that's where a family member begins so if you considering writing a family memoir Here are a couple of tips to help get you started. If you've established that at least some of your friends and family are willing to be interviewed. Either later in the day or in the next few months conduct the interview with a tape recorder and one way I go about this is I divide my yellow pad into 2 sections the left hand section I'm writing down the words Paramor recording the voices and the sounds and down the right hand side I'm looking at facial gestures and movements hand movements body movements because sometimes words can say one thing and the face can say something totally different so that's how I would get started the 2nd thing is it's a tough one to do leave your judgment at the door and I say that from personal experience many years ago when I was reviewing my sister's a memoir which came out both in this country and in the u.k. My opening sentence was all memoirs of fiction and that immediately goes off to a different start and I throw that out because memory itself is a tricky business and 2 people can grow up in the same house have the same moments the same incident and lo and behold a different interpretation so don't be thrown when you ask a question about why were you when Jack Kennedy was assassinated and you get 2 different answers from the same person or were you at the beginning of the Gulf War or where were you when your grandfather died all these can be turning points and a good memoir essentially is about turning points. Let's get into the nature of family stories and what ways. Can you invite all country rock memories Well again I found this 3 or 4 things that do spawn memories and the 1st is music you know early on today we're listening to one of a piece of Mozart before that's we were talking about Cirque du Soleil and David even mentioned having a dream so consider starting your daily journal I'm in my daily journal I include daydreams and I include night dreams that I include not does as well in fact live in Marin So it comes as no surprise that I belong to a dream group so there we are dreaming away but the daily journal of incidents in your own life is not a part of Russia a good memoir because I think one thing you'll discover as you go on this journey through your family's happenings is you will indeed be learning more about yourself and a good memoir relates the writer than a writer to the people around him or her. Food food taste taste is a great source of memory those favorite foods you had when you grew up as a child the change in diet when things happened and how they didn't and then fashion what were you wearing and what were they wearing and how did clothes tell a story so memorability are becomes another factor in writing a memoir and you might want to invite people to bring photos wedding pictures rings jewelry or if the person for example has been in the military metals the whole thing which takes you back to a certain moment in the past. And consider the fact that your memoir of the family may well be helping other people members can be inspiring they can show you how you thought about things and they can also learn you or teach you rather how to craft a story because we're interested in storytelling. But there's one thing I always recommend but it comes to memorizing and that is fact checking recently while I was running a memoir writing workshop I had a happily married couple they'd be married 35 years I separated the husband from the wife and I asked where did you meet and husband. It was in Boston at the airport the place was totally crowded and the only seat available was next to her I'm asked the wife where did you meet again she said pasta love port. And the place was totally empty and he came and sat next to me now both people were telling the truth and I didn't doubt that for one second but what I realize is perception a memory are indeed 2 different factors so Thanksgiving may be just the right moment to start a memoir and craft a carefully if any listeners want any guidelines to help at the simple Cisco litter society we are offering a what memo writing workshop and the number to call for that his 41531667 months will include a link at our website for that and talking about family memories what better than to choose an end to series 3 of the Crown here we are back in the sixty's the program runs from 1964 to 1987 and Netflix did promise from the beginning they would have a change of cast. So the role of Queen Elizabeth now in her middle period is played by a Livia Coleman and she brings a really steady production to a major change in terms of we'll have a garden with the royal family just Kona plays the Prince of Wales and a delightful for home and spy Henley Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and this is a critical time in roll history and lived through it I remember it's the queen is now much more in command it's no longer the young balik of the 1st 2 series and Prince Philip is played by that's a bias menses is also going through a change in life it's a period which runs from the beginning with the death of Winston Churchill and finishes with the final handover of power from Harold Wilson. Interesting they give one particular series to an event which happened to morals known as Abba van and this is why the whole mining village collapsed and closed and killed many different people and in real life one of the Queen's greatest regrets is that she did not have more to say all sympathy to express for that particular loss so they've given a full episode over to this which I think is a good example of maybe learning history through movies. Sometimes as a critic making a judgment for me means not only was I see on the screen but a number of instances I have seen or interviewed some of the real players including Prince Charles and I think they got the voice right he still speaks like an Edwardian also run into Camilla Parker Bowles and believed or not was exclude was at school with her ex-husband Colonel Parker Bowles So you bring real life to the screen and you get a really fine series Congratulations to Netflix I think the series 3 of the crown is a useful piece of history it also gives his insights with the Ramona Crystal notes as to the role that the queen plays all did play in the late sixty's nearly seventy's on what I consider to be an exceptional series. Thank you for that endorsement Peter and I think we could use a strong monarch here perhaps for a 2nd term maybe the Queen's available will see what happens that placement would work over here at the moment. Do God Save the Queen indeed on Netflix and elsewhere. Catch up. Season 3 of the crowd. Other events happening this weekend we should be aware of the sepsis go up a chorus under an Robinson is going to be at the. Theatre tomorrow evening at 730 always a wonderful chance to hear them and. Is going to be performing on Saturday evening at the church of St. And Linda and Sunday at Mission. Always wonderful to hear the work of. Check those out everything else you've heard about here on open air links at our website. And will be off next week for our annual presentation of giving thanks on Thanksgiving and thank you for being a listener of open air and a supporter of King of San Francisco and thanks to of course. For producing the show archived at. David to leap David at. My web link the b.b.c. News is next for an hour here on. C.n.n. London would be busy topline some of our top global stories this hour apologies we will have the news hour in just a 2nd it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood is the new movie about Mr Rogers Tom Hanks takes. The beautiful. Beautiful day for. Our review of the movie and the latest from the impeachment hearings the softer noon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Hour after the headlines. Then I'm Jack Speer the final open in peach minute hearing of the week has wrapped up with testimony today from former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and Foreign Service Officer David Holmes as N.P.R.'s miles parks explains he'll testified about how there seem to be separate foreign policy channels one and it openly stated u.s. Goals and the other ended getting Ukraine to announce investigations that would help President trumpet a cli Fiona Hill said the investigations seem focused on a quote fictional narrative of Ukraine election interference 2016 here's Illinois Democrat Roger Krishnamoorthy questioning Hill about Trump pushing for the investigations the question that we're all asking is whether American foreign policy in Ukraine is potentially being run in their interests and not our own it certainly appears that it is being used that this is subversion of American foreign policy to push these people's personal interests Republican say the president can make whichever foreign policy decisions he chooses and they know that Ukraine never followed through with the request investigations miles parks n.p.r. News the Capitol House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not laying out a timeline for wrapping up the impeachment inquiry N.P.R.'s Claudio Salis reports Pelosi remains open to President Trump submitting evidence as long as it's under oath Speaker Pelosi said there aren't any decisions yet on a timeline of some Democrats had hoped the process would wrap up before the 2020 Alexion year but Palosi said the inquiry is moving at the quote pace of truth takes us the speaker said the facts so far are facing President Trump or uncontested and she reiterated her message to the president that he can come forward to prove his innocence if you have reason to convince people that something was different under oath please let us know Palosi added the president so far has responded to the inquiry in a way that is quote beneath the dignity of his office Claudia listen p.r. News the Capitol Nebraska's agreeing to share its driver's license records to help the u.s. 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