 So, welcome to the Monotomy Concert Series, we have a really great concert tonight. It's the Essex Piano Trio, and we have a great program, Sounds of Vienna, and I think you'll enjoy it very much. So it's Ashley off from the violin, David Cabral, cello, and Beverly Soul on piano. You are part of our friends, so we like to talk with you a little bit and share a little bit about the music as we go on. So, we've divided our little conversation this evening into three parts. There's sort of the appetizer, salad part, I'm not sure which part you just had, but there's a little bit more of that to come. And then there's the big Schubert Middle Chorus, and it's a big one, but I think you'll love it, it's beautiful music. And then a tiny little dessert, okay, so you know when you get through the Schubert, it's going to be just a little one. So that's the structure of the music of the early composers of Vienna, the processes, Haydn Mozart Beethoven, the big ones. And then share how that builds into Schubert, who is the next generation and the piece that we're going to play for you is a magnificent work. But we wanted it also to be relevant to now, so then and now. So what we've done with our Mozart that we just played, we're pairing another little piece with it that was written as a lament for a friend lost to the composer. And the composer was a violinist who played a great deal of Mozart. So Mr. Peart took a small part of a Mozart sonata, a small movement. I'm going to play just a fragment of it because you need to know that before we start. Mozart sonata to many others, a piano sonata, very pretty movement. So Mr. Peart took this movement and ripped it apart, essentially. He's going to share a little fragments of it, adding violin cello for some of it, giving it back to me. But he's added to that some dissonance, some things that may make you cringe a little piece that we're about to play for you. So he was the first of the famous classicists to die, very young. The revered master is still alive and lives on past, just about everybody can see. But Beethoven, the young whippersnapper who's crude and outrageous has come unseen in Vienna. He's about to play his first three piano trios, piano trios, the first oboe, that's crazy, in one sitting for the master Haydn who is in attendance. And the wonderful thing about the movement we've decided to play for you tonight is Beethoven is so happy. Beethoven didn't have a very nice life if you know any stories about him, but he was happy at this point. He was on the cusp of wonderful things happening. And so this movement just rollocks and is so joyful. My guys call it the chicken, and you'll see from that opening motive you can decide what it is. But Maestro Haydn liked it, and perhaps because we think that it was stolen a little bit from a Haydn piece we'll play for you later. So there, that's the secret. Younger successor to Beethoven, we'll say. So much so that he asked to be a pallbearer at Beethoven's funeral, and he asked also that his father arranged for him to be buried beside Beethoven when he died. And he was. Sadly, only a year after Beethoven, and Schubert was very young, and then ill for quite some time. So the amazing thing is that this piece, which we think is modeled probably on Beethoven's Opus 97 Archduke. Schubert's Opus 99, this B-flat trio, has the same structure, the same kind of format. But the astonishing thing about both of these late life pieces for these two composers is their joy and their exuberance. And I think this piece is one of the most beautiful that we've ever played. It's just exquisite. It's long, it's about 40 minutes, so I plan to just sit there and have a good time with it. But it's a fairly serious first movement, a gorgeous, gorgeous slow movement that mostly, as these guys, they get the duet for that. And then a silly little scarlet song. Scarlet C are called joke, sometimes. And I think it's the composer's joke on the performers, because they always sound so easy and they're always just filled with nasty little tricks. And they're almost universally that way. So this one is no exception, but sure. And then there's a funky little theme at the end, the last movement, that just rollocks along so happily. And who would ever think that the composer was going to be dead within a few months? He just was writing this joyful, joyful music. So we hope that you'll share our love for it as we play it. But you can still stretch while I talk. So now stuff, we're going to do now the composer, who is still alive, a little bit of popular and so-called art music, whatever one wants to call it, closer together. So you hear a little of that in his music at all times. He's also, I've met him, a very funny man, just delightful to be around and to talk with. And some of that humor shows up in his music, as it does in this piece. He wrote in 2009 a piece in tribute anniversary of 200 years after Haydn died. Did you get that? So he's wanted to honor the old master. And Haydn is the person with the surprise symphony, the one who liked to put little interesting moments in his music. So Bolton does that too. So his little Haydn goes seek of which we're going to play just the introduction has a lot of very pregnant pauses, strange modulations. I don't think I have a single chord that doesn't have an accidental line. And yet it sounds very normal, but it's a tribute to the drama that you hear sometimes in Haydn's works of that sort. But Mr. Bolton wrote an introduction and a rondo. We're not going to play the rondo, play a little, continue the little joke. We're going to play as the rondo, the Haydn Gypsy Rondo, the most famous movement perhaps from his piano trios. And it may remind you a little of our chicken Beethoven earlier. But we're going to play those as one piece, page turns allowing between. But the Bolton introduction to the Haydn Gypsy Rondo, and we think that probably both composers across the years would have thought that was fun. And thank you. You are a fantastic audience. We have loved playing for you and looking forward to sharing this last group. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.