Thank you so much for coming this evening.

It's really a pleasure to be her and out there and having the stu taking such good care of me to t So it's really a treat.

I would say couple of words about this next because probably none of you are with it.

Its fairly recent.

It was written by Kamran Ince who teaches at the University of Memphis and he has Turkish heritage.

And this piece is based on a pai by a Turkish contemporary painter, 20th century painter.

And this painting, for a while had the distinction of being the expensive Turkish contemporary p to have ever been sold in existe It's kind of a national treasure and it's rarely displayed in mus and it was displayed once at the Istanbul Museum.

And Mr. Ince was asked to write a pi based on it.

So the really is kind of a I mean, that notion of sharing, I should call it the painting.

I've never seen it live.

I think it's more of a collage.

It's a very large abstract canvas, and I think the exercise uses ma on the walls of cities in this particular case, walls that are very materials that are very bright blue.

And he makes collages with those materials, with some and with some other materials.

And unfortunately, I'll stop talking about that because this is not really somet you are knowledgeable about, but the result is really luminou and really beautiful.

And if you have a chance to look up the painting Symphony in Blue after this concert, I think you will enjoy it.

So and this piece in the program the composer.

Says that when he was writing this piece, he was thinking about how we would look at the paintin It's not a linear process.

It's not like there's a story fr to right, certainly not in this painting.

So he said, you know, my look in top corner and the right bottom then the.

Middle, then back to the left top corner So the the piece is sort of like of musical ideas this way as wel You'll hear things come back.

You know, I'm not sure I fully understand it, but I like I think that some of the whatever musical materials the c uses first are very beautiful.

You will be seeing you do a little bit of things, some things inside the piano, don't be alarmed.

And then something like I will also be softly singing.

So that's also part of the progr I hope you enjoy it.

So just a few words about this n which is a transcription of a so and then.

It sounds kind of important to know what it's about.

So you know, Schubert's want to see his most famous song which is Gretchen at the Spinnin This is sort of like a sequel where a young woman who had a very unhappy, dramatic experience goes into the convent, becomes a young nun And like with many Schubert song he sort of combines what is going on in nature or ou or life living what is going on the person psychologically.

So this song she's talking about oh, there is a storm outside.

Well, there was a storm inside not too long ago.

And now the night is very dark and just as dark as in the now after this episode is over and then throughout the whole song, you w repeated notes from as the churc and eventually come in the music that's taken over by that.

And she says, Well, you know, now I'm going to be with my crea And the song ends with two times that suggest an alleluia.

So I think you will like.

I like to play this song before next song, which is the well-known Schubert Der fantasy, about 20 minutes, essentially 4 movements kind of sonata.

But the movements are stitched t so there is no break.

The reason I like to play this s the fact is me is because I am a lot of people have some trouble with the fanta because it's such a bombastic pi and know a lot of the reasons wh Why a lot of much musicians love It's not because he's bombastic, but because he's so intimate.

And we love his music so much.

And there's this bombastic piece So but this fantasy is actually also ba on the song.

It's based on the song about the a person who goes from town to town without being able to find the h And Schubert identified this in path with this idea of this wond to such a degree that he even ba of his thesis on the rhythm of t You know, long, short, short, we'll hear this throughout this And I think that Schubert compos this fantasy probably from the s slow movement out.

The second slow movement, I think is the heart of the piec where the quotation from this so about the wanderer also happens.

And then I think the outer movem are sort of the framework, and I think that the whole thing as bombastic as it is, is actually quite deep and since So I'll do my best and I hope you enjoy.