 Welcome to the Longmont Museum. My name is Justin Veitch. I'm the manager of the Museum's Stuart Auditorium and we are coming at you live and direct from the Stuart Auditorium this afternoon via Facebook live. Live Longmont Public Media.org and local Comcast Cable Channel 8 and 880. So hello to all of you out there in internet land and cable television here in Longmont. We're happy to sort of see you I guess. Thanks for being there. I want to make sure that we recognize the people who make these kinds of programs possible. The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, the Friends of the Longmont Public Library, the Stuart Family Foundation, many members and donors to the Longmont Museum. Thank you all. We simply couldn't do all that we do without you. So thank you. I'm happy to report that Friday afternoon concerts are back. Yes, after a year it's been a year of not doing these. We have returned although it appears you haven't. So we're hoping that you're out there at home or standing somewhere with your phone staring at the concert in a parking lot somewhere or something. My god you could be just about anywhere watching this. So glad you're here. Tonight you know we're kicking off the Friday afternoon concert series this afternoon and we'll be doing this the first Friday of the month for the next three months. So February 5th, March 5th and April, oh I think it's April 2nd or something like that. Correct me if I'm wrong out there in Facebook land. You can always visit our website for more information. www.longmontmuseum.org and while you're there you might want to check out and see what else we've got going on. We've got quite a bit happening. We have an incredible impressionism show up right now. It's going to be up through July. It's proving very popular. We can't accommodate too many people in the building however due to COVID. So we recommend purchasing your ticket in advance online via our website. You want to check that out. Anyway without further ado this afternoon we are delighted to have a pair of distinguished musicians from Colorado. Christina, oh boy. I need a glass of water don't I? Christina Jennings of course and Matthew Dane and this is actually a makeup sort of a half makeup concert. Matt was going to join us for a concert back in the spring which we had to cancel and you know why we had to do that. So tonight this afternoon I mean we have Christina and Matt with us. Christina is the flute teacher at CU Boulder and a nationally recognized soloist. Matthew is principal violist with the Colorado Opera and frequent performer of chamber music along the front range. COVID has provided these two with ample opportunity to perform together a lot. They've been making a lot of lemonade in other words and it helps that they are married and live under the same roof. So as an example of everything they've accomplished in the last going on a year they're here with us this afternoon to provide us with a musical interlude amidst all this. Ladies and gentlemen, Matthew Dane and Christina Jennings. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be here as classical musicians. There is nothing that brings us more joy than being able to play music and in a beautiful space like this with an actual acoustic with dressed up clothes and here we are for a program a short program that really amplifies diverse voices and gives you the whole range of emotions that one can experience and through the through the instruments of the flute and the viola. Thank you so much for being here and Matt will tell us a little bit about the first piece. Jonah Sarota is a good friend of ours, excellent violist and a colleague in the summer. Jonah wrote this piece for us last summer and we're just delighted to be able to play it for you today. I'm actually playing viola demore on this as you can see it's a without getting too long. It's a 14 string Baroque instrument. I play the top seven strings and the seven below resonate for a unique sound. Jonah was very excited to and he was game to give it a try to write for it. He was inspired by quantum mechanics to write this piece. You might think that entanglement might sound a little negative but I think in the quantum mechanic world it's a positive thing. So we basically start apart and eventually find each other and grow together. Hope you enjoy. Next I will share with you a solo flute piece called Homeland by Allison Hogan's Lull and this is a piece that was in convergence of three disasters in the summer of 2018. Hurricane Maria, the civil war in Syria and the US political arrest. Allison Lulgan's Hall says when you are forced to leave your country in order to survive, when the people of your country are completely divided. When your country has been destroyed by a natural disaster, a human disaster is home still home. The next piece I'll be playing is by the Baroque composer Christian Petzold. Petzold was a he is not a household name now however he was he was a contemporary of Bach and Vivaldi and in fact knew them both. This piece was written it does it doesn't come to us in a manuscript form it's a it was written down by a friend of his. There's a lot of flexibility in how we play it so I it's in multi movements as are the Bach suites. However what you'll notice is these are much these are sort of like a little character sketches compared to Bach suite movements so the whole thing is about maybe 11-12 minutes and I hope you enjoy it. The next two solo pieces are pieces that my students were working on this past fall and I was inspired to learn them by the beauty of the compositions and the way the students played them. They're both joyful the Telemann 11th fantasy in G majors in three short parts and the next piece I'm honored to play is Annika Sokolowski's Bulgarius composed in 2012. Annika is my new beloved colleague at CU Boulder we are so lucky to have her and she's written a lot for flutes so it's a name you'll be hearing if you if you follow me. She says Bulgarius was inspired by the breathy timbre of the Bulgarian cabal and the complex meter of Bulgarian folk music. Bulgarius is a virtuosic dance for solo flutes. All material for this piece is original save a couple of bars that were inspired but that inspired the composition. It has some wild moments some singing and multiphonics and quarter tones and it is sort of a wild dance hope you enjoy it. The next piece we'll be playing I'll introduce and then Christina will introduce the last one. This piece by Irina Esmail also a friend of ours she wrote this piece in 2017 originally for flute and cello it's titled Nadia which means river in Hindi. I think to me what that means in this piece from the experience of working on it is that we have a couple there are a couple of different ragas that she that she uses and I and basically the you'll hear the two of us kind of you can imagine us being just parts of the stream flowing down sometimes together sometimes apart and complimentary not always necessarily sounding like we're playing exactly together drifting in and out of of synchronicity hope you enjoy. And then we'll conclude with a duo by Dev Yen which is perhaps the piece that we've played the most I think we was probably the first piece of music that we ever played when we met in 1996 and it's traveled through us and through the years and here we are in 2021 closing our program with it thank you all so much for being here it's a pleasure to play. I hope you'll please join me in thanking Matthew Dane and Christina Jennings for spending this lovely afternoon with us it was a really gorgeous concert and it's funny what happens with a little bit of captivity and isolation huh a little bit of captivity a lot of captivity and isolation goes a long way absolutely gorgeous thank you so much I hope you'll join us again sometime beautiful afternoon please join us in a month on March 5th for an afternoon of jazz with the Heath Walton band and then again on Friday April 2nd at 2 30 with espresso and a little more jazz this time gypsy jazz and some swing thank you for joining us and be well out there