 I'm super excited to welcome all of you here for our first, is this the first one? This is our first one, right? First in person concert in about three years forever. It's been forever, yeah. This is a high school band. We're gonna play some tunes. First one is Libertango by Astro Piazzolla. We do have some solos on this, double check. Ari, let's get a solo. Ari in Olivia and Sawyer. She had never, I'm pretty sure, never touched a drum set before we started. This next piece is called Fantasia on the Dargasson. This piece to me is a good example of how effective recycling can be. So Gustav Holtz took two folk tunes, one called the Dargasson, and the Green Sleeves comes in about halfway through, so two English folk tunes, and wrote them into this lovely piece which he wrote for String Orchestra. And then a few years later, he was asked to write a piece of music for concert band. So what did he do? He took us and pulled out that old folk piece for String Orchestra and re-orchestrated it for concert band. And then this version that we're playing is almost exactly the same thing that Gustav Holtz wrote, except regular instrumentation ensembles. So we're gonna play Fantasia on the Dargasson. Edith is gonna open us up with a little bit. So I'm actually gonna play for concert at this point. This is well popular on TikTok at one point, that from them, it's a cool song, so we're playing it. Music, he has made it in. We give a big shout out to David Paulson. Thank you for all that you've done for us. String Band, we're a band this year. I'm going to let me play with them, so we truly are conductors and coach teaching and all the things, coach choosing the music. Thank you to our wonderful view list here for choosing our next piece. The next piece on your program might be Dust in the Wind. And I'm really sorry, but our guitar player isn't able to come tonight. So we're not gonna play it. It really makes the arrangement. So we are going to next play Selections from Hamilton. Features My Shot, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, and You'll Be Back. And so we've worked really hard to put this piece together and let's have some fun playing for you. Thank you for waiting while we do our last little shift here. Week and a half, well, a couple of years, but we last week took a tour with the Band and Strings and chorus to all of the elementary schools. We went to three of them on Monday and two more on Friday and got to perform and interact with the kids there at all the elementary schools. It was really a terrific experience, but it sort of put us off and we had several people today. Do we have a concert tonight? And they say, yeah, we do. Normally we would do our in-school performance the day of the concert. We're actually doing it tomorrow. And this morning during our normal class time, we had the middle school in-school concert. So we haven't really seen these folks since Friday. And so it's understandable that we're a little confused about whether we were having a concert, but I think pretty much we all made it. We had a cancellation of one of the play-downs for Varsity Girls' Softball and we're sad about the cancellation. They get to play tomorrow, but that does allow a couple of our students in chorus and band and such to be here tonight. We're glad about that. And so let's do some singing, eh? If we can stand up straight. Our first piece tonight is the Sting Song from the mid-80s called Russians. And as we were talking about things that are going on in the world these days, this song seemed appropriate. It's all about, we hope that all of the countries and all of the nations love their children. And that's really what this song is about. So this is Russian. Children respond to our group. Chef said we don't subscribe to this point of view. Would be such an ignorant thing to do. If the Russians love their children, we share the same. Regardless of ideology, it's love their children. Don't subscribe to this point of view. The Russians love, Russians love, Russians love their children. We can check our wonderful diction and pronunciation. This is Ave Verum, which is written in Latin by two of our students that we'd like to recognize tonight with us for four years of pandemic and barely any chorus and Zoom chorus and just it's been incredibly challenged for young musicians, incredibly challenging for young musicians these last couple of years. And Anne and I would really just like to give our appreciation to Alah and Jillian and Tia, our seniors. But we are going to feature them on this piece. So you'll hear the three of them. This is Take On Me.