WEBVTT 00:00:10.562 --> 00:00:18.932 - Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. My name is Ryo Hasegawa. I'm the music director 00:00:18.932 --> 00:00:26.910 - of the BSO. In these days, I cannot be happier and I cannot be proud to be part of this organization, 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:34.967 - because IU football is winning. Everywhere I go to, and I tell them that I'm a part of the Bloomington 00:00:34.967 --> 00:00:38.174 - Symphony Orchestra, and then they always 00:00:38.306 --> 00:00:44.842 - you know, oh my gosh, you guys are so strong. You guys are beating the Oregon and then the Michigan. 00:00:44.842 --> 00:00:51.767 - And I don't know anything about football, but I'm happy, you know. But of course, I'm happy and so honored 00:00:51.767 --> 00:00:58.239 - to be part of this incredible organization, Bloomington Symphony, get to work with these incredible 00:00:58.239 --> 00:01:05.163 - musicians. And tonight's concert is about exploring a different sound from various cultures and countries. 00:01:05.163 --> 00:01:06.846 - And it's a celebration of 00:01:07.074 --> 00:01:15.297 - music, the power of music to heal the human spirit. And this has been presented with our friend, My 00:01:15.297 --> 00:01:23.932 - Sister's Closet. So thank you so much for joining, Sandy, and other My Sister's Closet folks. All right, 00:01:23.932 --> 00:01:32.320 - and next piece, it's going to be a jet plane. You have to probably fasten your seat belt because this 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:35.198 - mandolin is a piano concerto whose 00:01:35.298 --> 00:01:42.512 - that is played by our concerto competition winner, Solar Manly. It's one of a kind. And I hope you will 00:01:42.512 --> 00:01:49.656 - get to sort of witness the future star of the classical music. But without further ado, let us welcome 00:01:49.656 --> 00:01:50.558 - Solar Manly. 00:13:16.642 --> 00:13:24.422 - Good to see you here tonight. First things first, how about another round of applause for our amazing 00:13:24.422 --> 00:13:32.508 - young soloists? Let's hear it for Solar. Yeah. So for those of you who don't already know me, I am Alexis 00:13:32.508 --> 00:13:40.364 - Witt, and I am the president of the board for the BSO. So as you can see, I have a friend up here with 00:13:40.364 --> 00:13:45.246 - me on stage here tonight as well. Hello, friend. Hello, friend. 00:13:45.506 --> 00:13:51.882 - And I'm Sandy Keller with My Sister's Closet of Monroe County. And we are very, very excited to be here 00:13:51.882 --> 00:13:58.013 - tonight. Absolutely, yes. So you hopefully have seen in your programs that the theme for our season 00:13:58.013 --> 00:14:04.144 - this year is between friends. And so we are always, of course, grateful for the friendships that we 00:14:04.144 --> 00:14:10.398 - have within our community. We are grateful for the friendships that we have with other organizations. 00:14:10.498 --> 00:14:17.834 - And this year, the season in particular, we get to celebrate that in a big way. So we are really excited 00:14:17.834 --> 00:14:25.240 - to have My Sister's Closet here with us as part of that celebration. Thank you, Kira. We are here tonight 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:30.270 - to be able to show everyone all the commonalities in our organizations. 00:14:30.402 --> 00:14:38.391 - and the people that we serve, particularly vulnerable populations and their children, and we want to 00:14:38.391 --> 00:14:46.696 - make sure that they feel like they've got an identity through music, because music makes us whole, music 00:14:46.696 --> 00:14:54.606 - makes us strong, and it gives us an identity of who we are so that we feel that we can do anything. 00:14:54.606 --> 00:14:57.374 - Absolutely, yes. Thank you, Sandy. 00:14:57.826 --> 00:15:03.936 - Thinking a bit more on this nature of friendship, especially new and old friends coming together, I 00:15:03.936 --> 00:15:10.473 - would like to see just really quickly a show of hands. How many of you is this your very first BSO concert 00:15:10.473 --> 00:15:14.078 - you've ever been to? Whoa, let's have a round of applause. 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:24.748 - That's incredible. Thank you for being here. Welcome to our first time audience members. We hope to 00:15:24.748 --> 00:15:30.586 - see you many more times. And for everybody else, welcome back. We're always happy to see you. Now, 00:15:30.586 --> 00:15:36.661 - of course, you probably know that buying your tickets, showing up here to these concerts is one of the 00:15:36.661 --> 00:15:42.558 - very best ways that you can support our organization. But you might not know that ticket sales make 00:15:42.558 --> 00:15:45.566 - up for only about a third of our very lean budget. 00:15:46.114 --> 00:15:51.972 - So if you want to continue to be our friends and to help us be your friends back and having these amazing 00:15:51.972 --> 00:15:57.498 - events for everybody to come together and enjoy as a community, we hope that you could help us make 00:15:57.498 --> 00:16:03.300 - up some of the difference. We of course get grants, we of course have sponsors, but donations are really 00:16:03.300 --> 00:16:06.782 - a big way that we can help make up for the rest of our budget. 00:16:06.946 --> 00:16:12.498 - So you can look in your programs for more information on how to give to our organization. We also have 00:16:12.498 --> 00:16:18.374 - a donation box out in the lobby, old fashioned style, and we hope you can help support the BSO in continuing 00:16:18.374 --> 00:16:23.872 - to do what we're doing. And Sandy, how can we help support My Sister's Closet? You can also go out to 00:16:23.872 --> 00:16:29.316 - a table out there and pick up some information about our organization and the work that we do in the 00:16:29.316 --> 00:16:30.718 - community, and of course, 00:16:30.914 --> 00:16:36.548 - We are in an interesting place where we are trying to keep going past June of this next year because 00:16:36.548 --> 00:16:42.349 - our lease is ending and we need to renovate a building we need to move into. So if you want information 00:16:42.349 --> 00:16:48.262 - about that, it's out there. We'd appreciate any of your support or if you'd like to get involved somehow, 00:16:48.262 --> 00:16:53.896 - we'd love to hear from you. Absolutely. Thank you everyone for your support. Thank you all for being 00:16:53.896 --> 00:16:56.574 - here. I hope you enjoy the rest of the concert.