thank you everyone for coming which microphone using this one it's great to see some old faces and some new faces very young faces everywhere and we're always so happy to make music here in the peachtree center we started back in two thousand and ten with a slightly larger ensemble but these players are some of the most talented young professional musicians in the boston area and we're so excited to have them here to make music for all of you we have a wonderful program starting with mozart's last movement from the divertimento one hundred thirty six and followed by the barber adagio and then the eldar serenade for strings and they will have an intermission to absorb everything and then after that a piece by so the pieces were chosen because they have very different contrast in characters and the mozart is incredibly lively and it's one of the first pieces i ever conducted when i started studying  and as you'll see the barber is a completely completely different character and i'll speak of it more about the eldar after that so let's start without further ado with mo samuel barber and it was written in one thousand thirty six was originally written as a string quartet and he later expanded it and will be playing it very close to its original instrumentation with a few extra players but it's the piece speaks for itself i don't have to say too much more about it but as i said before it's a completely different character a completely different world of emotion from the mozart and it requires a lot and i spoke about this in the rehearsals with the musicians requires a lot of inwardness but the challenge of this is to share that inwardness with as a group and not only and to really deeply feel that one is expressing one's own subjectivity but also within the group setting and that's the biggest challenge for this piece and perhaps in music making in general it's that relationship to the group into the feeling  that is shared but also expressed deeply from the self so these are just some of the things that i've been thinking about and we've been thinking about as we've been i the last piece that were playing on this part of the program is by edward eldar the great british composer and i have fond memories of playing this piece for the first time out at tanglewood when i was younger and i was studying trumpet but i wanted to get involved conducting so i gathered a group of friends together there was just about the size of this group and we found an empty practice place and we just rehearsed this and it was so beautiful in the middle of the woods and in the middle of the berkshires too to make this music and it's actually one of al gore's first compositions that he was really happy about satisfied that this was going this was his voice this was something that he could present t and it's a piece you can hear the theme that starts in the viola and louis playing the viola in a very lovely way and it comes back throughout the orchestra in the last movement you'll hear the same  demonstrate the opening theme that we should listen for yeah that's the theme and you'll hear that circulate throughout the group and it's a motif the i guess the french term for this is a fix but it's a motif that kind of he's obsessed with and it keeps coming back and it's kind of like a thought or an idea that you have that you can't get away from it it just keeps returning throughout your day or throughout your we can keep remembering about a certain thing that and it keeps going back to you and that's that's a really lovely motif  but i think that this piece is most known for the second movement and it's supposed to be people say one of the most beautiful that he ever wrote in his life and the piece is probably one of the most played of all the pieces of edward elgar so i hope you enjoy the serenade wishes and she made this all happen and we got the space and we could rehearse here and we could do to open rehearsal for some of you to hear what goes into making a whole concert happen so we're very much appreciative that we have the opportunity to to make music here and i also want to thank don public media and especially julie stefano who is making sure that all of this music gets out to the greater belmont public watching on t v it will also be on online so you can listen to it after the concert and they've been helping us out since we started i think it was one of the concerts in two thousand and eleven that they helped us out with and it was a really beautiful rendition they made some beautiful camera angles in there was a kid a young kid there who was very little but he was able to to do all the camera angles and i don't know how he knew when the trombone were going to play but somehow he did  anyway the other thing i want to mention is this event is officially a group music vent does anybody know or have they heard about group news group news so group muse is a really exciting new start up idea that was started by somebody who actually came to one of the belmont festival concerts back in two thousand and eleven we had a cello player and his friend sam bodkin came along and sam went to columbia and he had the idea what if we could create a website that would facilitate chamber music and other musical gatherings to happen online so basically matching people  in the community with players to present concerts in living rooms and other public spaces around and it's an idea that's really taken flight it's spread from boston to new york san francisco now and actually all the way to eastern europe so it's taking over online everybody wants to do this there's been articles written about it apparently it's the rebirth of classical music and it's a really really exciting project and i encourage all of you can easily  get online or find a way to help have so many help you get online to sign up that way you can host gatherings group news dot com that way you can host gatherings in your living room it's free and you sign up and use you say you what kind of gathering you're hoping to have you know is it bring your own beer or not you can have alcohol or non alcohol depending on what you like and you can specify an age range so i always for this group i put the all the different age ranges possible because i think it's really important to get everybody to hear classical music and to really to learn more about it and to feel it it's not about thinking really it's about feeling so this group muse is really all about that and so it's it's really amazing to have you to hear i so inspired by what sam has has done and i saw it last when i went to he was holding court and really bringing forth the vision of group muse which is really important i think it's all about bringing music to more people free of charge and and opening up this experience so it's not just in a concert hall but it can be anywhere and directly to the community  went public media should come up and please if you wrote your name on the mailing list we can keep everybody posted about upcoming events and where it's going to be we hope to come back here to be true center because this is where everything all started and the energy here is so great it's our home field advantage and you know that's the one thing that people forget i think musicians have to remember that it's everybody is part of the experience we're not just playing music for people but it's this common shared experience and that's what's really wonderful about it so thank you for being here it's making it's making the energy happen where we all set to place this stuff i told the coming off