play or folk or american songbook ragtime classical pop apologizes to opera fans about that when he writes in a range of songs for guitar and covers many of the great fingerstyle guitarist he teaches privately and gives workshops performances and demonstrations at various institutions including temple university the college of new jersey and local libraries and in addition to shot the hot seat he teaches  make sure everything gets all set up for you here and while they're doing is that a moment here i will get a moment to ask a question here of the audience so for the folks who are in the audience here how many people have been out to our cappy improv web site cafe improv dot com well more here more hands and i have seen in a long time awesome thank you folks for doing that so we if you have not been out there it is definitely a site to be able to go and get a chance to see what the lineup is going to be for the next shows and then see what paso's are as well as the best performances as history called the coldness or priests of nothingness they played kind of music on it that was very very drifting without much of a metronomic rhythm to it based on the rhythm of their own breath they were baskets on their heads and they often appear in well the three pieces i'm going to play tonight are all twentieth century pieces first two from the one nine hundred twenty s and then the third one my teacher wrote i believe in the one nine hundred ninety s there's a little bit of story for each one so you know i want to give you a little background before i play the pieces so you can you know appreciate them a little more so i'm going to start with a piece called you know ready for prayer and this was written and i believe in one nine hundred twenty five you know she does masters of the early twentieth century actually i feel a kind of a connection to him because this flute this is my main instrument was let's say approved by him it has his mark of approval on it he didn't actually make it but he approved of it as an antique flew from the twenty's so it's kind of need to play a piece that he composed with a flute that he had at least at some point probably played it's kind of an interesting connection this is a very international piece it was actually commissioned by a polish count to be a background music piece for a ballet that he was promoting that the count was promoting and it depicts greek ancient greek temple maidens doing a kind of danc offering to the gods so japanese piece written by japanese master for a polish count depicting ancient greek shrine maidens so you know or prayer is going to blow for tunes of radio shows like this the music and things like that he was one of the first to begin to combine traditional japanese instruments with western instruments at the time was very cutting edge so he had a lot of so he says in the notes that it depicts a spring day so our hero or traveler if you will enjoying the spring morning in the first section and all that kind of the gentle breezes of morning and the flowers and that kind of thing then he comes upon a lion dance there's a part where it changes and there is a very common scene in festivals in japan would be in china as well the lion dance where they have kind of lie in costumes and do a very kind of joyous downs with drums and things like that high pitched flute and then there's the feeling of watching the flowers so probably the cherry blossoms blooming having a look at all of the beauty of that then it changes again into tokyo so a traveler wanders through there and i believe that's where the grievance comes in summer and then it ends up with the falling flower music so the petals all drifting and kind of a storm maybe the wind which was an anonymous piece from a couple hundred years ago that depicts the life cycle of cranes so from the elaborate mating dance that they do to calls of the cranes the babies being born growing up learning to fly and then the cycle of course repeating itself over and over again he explained to me that the name actually cranes gate refers to in a grove of bamboo there may be an area and within a dense thicket of them blue six or twelve feet square that has no bamboo but that's why he knows the next story about the next people written by one of those people you know if you're anywhere near as old as you might know it and you might know the principles we constantly changing anyway that we thought the songs were so cool so we figured we start doing it was a duo so we did we did it for about a year and i hear oh i'm driving in the car and i hear the radio interview and it was locally it was local los it was like twenty miles from where we live to wonderful audience where we're going to say good night you are fraser thomas and please let us know if you'd like to sign our mailing list we can let you know replaying in the future you guys are wonderful this life vibe here and we really do appreciate it also  w w w dot fraser thomas music dot com that's june thomas and rob phrases yes yes thank you very much you guys are awesome you are wearing yours i'm sure here we go thank you very much and you're both on pluggable we're going to finish up with one song you know it is earth day we're going to do something with earth wise here so yeah i don't know if i'm going to tell my story does anybody remember nine hundred eighty nine does all of you guys know because anyway about five years ago i was following the story right and i decided to sort of write a song kind of tongue in cheek about cold fusion well i wrote the song and it was about it's about a product that is being that was being