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Hey!
Hi everyone I'm Jim Ryan and welcome to the fifth episode of Arts on the Hill
the digital edition so you just heard performers from a UVA course entitled
Learn to Groove Advanced I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and I hope
you're doing well I am sure this is getting old for you being cooped up it's
certainly getting old for me but it is at times like this I think that arts are
incredibly important they're like food for the soul and I hope you'll find this
episode especially nourishing up next you're going to hear from my friend and
UVA alum Katie Couric who is going to read and talk briefly about a poem by
Elizabeth Bishop I want to thank Katie for participating as well as all the
other performers and a special thanks to our inimitable host Matt Weber my
colleague and friend enjoy and be well
Elizabeth Bishop is a fascinating woman and the poem can be analyzed on so
many levels maybe Jim you can lead a discussion on this but Greg Orr who's a
professor at UVA participated along with Mary Chapin Carpenter another Virginian
in an episode my friend Lisa New did all about this poem with various people
reading it including Mary Chapin Carpenter Sheryl Sandberg and me
along with Greg Orr
This poem is One Art by Elizabeth Bishop:
the art of losing isn't hard to master so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that
their loss is no disaster lose something every day except the fluster of lost door
keys the hour badly spent the art of losing isn't hard to master
then practice losing farther losing faster places and names and where it was
you meant to travel none of these will bring disaster I lost my mother's watch
and look my last or next to last of three loved houses went the art of
losing isn't hard to master I lost two cities lovely ones and vaster some
realms I owned two rivers a continent I miss them but it wasn't a disaster even
losing you the joking voice a gesture I love I shan't have lied it's evident
the art of losing is not too hard to master though it may
look like write it like disaster.
There once was a Hoo named Couric whose career
has risen meteoric are limericks poetry? I think so technically oh Katie you make
us feel euphoric thank you to Miss Couric and of course Poetry in America
for that clip speaking of all things euphoric and allegoric the music of the
Virginia Sil'houettes next on Arts on the Hill
birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel breeze driftin on by you know how I feel it's a
new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me and I'm feeling good
[A CAPPELLA SINGING]
Fish in the sea You know how I feel
River running free You know how I feel
Blossom on a tree You know how I feel
It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun, you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done, that's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine and I know how I feel
It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life
it's a new life for me
and I'm feeling good
Yeah I'm feeling so good
I'm feeling good
definitely feeling good better in fact from having watched that rendition
congratulations and really great job editing that our next guest on Arts on
the Hill is UVA alum and acclaimed singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger who
brought a guitar and some music to her picnic
Some days I wake up and there's magic
Some days I wake up and it's tragic, or so it seems to me
Why don't I meet you somewhere static?
You'd be in disbelief, but she wouldn't be me
Why does it feel like it's always Sunday?
Never thought I'd have a problem with that
Why do I waste half of the day in my head
Buckled by the fear of something only I can feel
I've been away, I've been away, Oh as long as you've been away, I've been away
I've been away, I've been away, Just as sure as you've been away, I've been away
Why do I cower when the phone rings?
Then I'm lonesome and with regret
Why do I waste half of the day in my head?
I've been away, I've been away, Oh as long as you've been away, I've been away
I've been away, I've been away, Just as sure as you've been away, I've been away
Thank You Kate our next piece is something I could definitely never sing
and it's called something I'm not sure I'm going to be able to pronounce but I'm
gonna give it a try it's a Schubert song called Frühlingsglaube
how did I do? pretty close. next on Arts on the Hill
for those tracking this show over the past five weeks yes I know I need a
haircut our final piece today is special it's
historic it's a compilation and performance by the wonderful
Chamber Singers they would have been performing this on Grounds this spring but it was
cancelled but we get to hear it tonight with faculty accompaniment on digital
Arts on the Hill appropriately as you will see we've
saved this one for the final act of the show if appropriate and safe we hope you
sing along arm-in-arm with whoever your quarantined with
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
That good old song of Wah-hoo-wah—we'll sing it o'er and o'er
It cheers our hearts and warms our blood to hear them shout and roar
We come from old Virginia, where all is bright and gay
Let's all join hands and give a yell for dear old UVA.
oh I bet you thought we forgot to end the show with kids playing music no no
no UVA alum Jess Hamilton submitted this of her son Smitty serenading their cat
Spy spoiler alert the cat is less than
impressed and dare I say even a bit hostile have a good week everyone and be well