[GUITAR PLAYING]
We fill the streets with tears force you to wade through all our fears
we're crying, crying out
We fill the hall with voices we won't stop rejoicing
til you hear us, calling out
Shoulders sore from fists held high Boots on the ground but our spirits fly
How will I know if I'm on the right side I'll tell by the love, tell by the love in my Daughter's eye
Faint of heart need not apply if it looks like truth in your minds eye
then speak it, speak it loud.
Brother we must resist Sister we must persist
This is no easy road we're going down.
Shoulders sore from fists held high Boots on the ground but our spirits fly
How will I know if I'm on the right side I'll tell by the love, tell by the love in my Mother's eye
It's so easy to fear, but one heart at a time We can spread the love from your eyes to mine
ooh ooh ooh
Shoulders sore from fists held high Boots on the ground but our spirit flies
How will I know if I'm on the right side I'll tell by the love, tell by the love in my Neighbor's eye
[GUITAR PLAYING]
hi everyone and welcome to episode 6 of Arts on the Hill I'm Jim Ryan
unfortunately Phoebe is taking one more week off but she'll be back with me next
week so we're into May the year 2020 I think really hope everyone is well and
hanging in there you just heard a beautiful song from UVA alum Erin
Lunsford about love which is what seems to keep us all going these days and
ever-present in the work of these performers I hope you enjoy this episode
which promises love some laughter poetry some presidents and as you might have
guessed a euphonium or four enjoy and be well
hello my name is Mike Idzior and I'm one of the band directors here at the
University hope everyone is doing as well as can be out there and students I
hope your end of semester work and finals preparation is going well I
thought I'd share a little bit of music with you today so I put together a
recording of an arrangement for tuba and euphonium quartet I don't have any tubas
laying around so I chose to play all four parts on euphonium so here is
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro on four euphoniums enjoy and go Hoos
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thank You Mozart and thank you Mikes I think my favorite Mike was the upper
right hand corner Mike even though all the Mikes in my opinion were quite
wonderful in that euphonium well done and love the band our next performance
is by fourth-year music major and Curry student Caitlin Catterton who is
performing a song from the musical Waitress called She Used to be Mine and
for those cat spotting or dog watching on this show look no further than the
next segment yes folks you'll be seeing the Catterton cat
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's not simple to say That most days, I don't recognize me
That these shoes, and this apron That place, and its patrons
Have taken more than I gave them
It's not easy to know I'm not anything like I used to be, although it's true
I was never attention's sweet center But I still remember that girl
She's imperfect, but she tries She is good, but she lies
She is hard on herself She is broken and won't ask for help
She is messy, but she's kind She is lonely most of the time
She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie She is gone, but she used to be mine
And it's not what I asked for Sometimes life just slips in through a back door
And carves out a person And makes you believe it's all true
And now I've got you
You're not what I asked for If I'm honest, I know I would give it all back
For a chance to start over And rewrite an ending or two
For that girl that I knew
Who'd be reckless just enough Who gets hurt
But who learns how to toughen up when she's bruised And gets used by a man who can't love
And then she'll get stuck And be scared of the life that's inside her
Getting stronger each day 'Til it finally reminds her
To fight just a little To bring back the fire in her eyes
That's been gone, but used to be mine Oh, used to be mine
She is messy, but she's kind She is lonely most of the time
She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie She is gone, but she used to be mine
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I call you one time, two time, three time
I can't wait no more Your fingers through my hair, that's on my mind
I know it's been a minute since you walked right through that door but I still think about you all the time
I don't know, I don't know How I'm gonna make it out
I don't know, I don't know Now you got me sayin'
I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely come hold me, come hold me, come hold me
It's been me, myself, and why did you go, did you go? Oh, I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely, lonely
Yeah, I still watch the shows you showed me I still drink that wine
But these days it tastes more bitter than sweet, hm
And all my friends are way too dumb to save me from my phone
So sorry if I say some things I mean
I don't know, I don't know How I'm gonna make it out
I don't know, I don't know Now you got me sayin'
I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely come hold me, come hold me, come hold me
It's been me, myself, and why did you go, did you go? Oh I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely, lonely, I
Miss those nights when you would come over Spent all night just tryna get closer
That was June and now it's October I don't want, don't wanna get over
I miss those nights when you would come over Spent all night just tryna get closer
That was June and now it's October I don't want, don't wanna get over you
Oh, get over you
I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely come hold me, come hold me, come hold me
It's been me, myself, and why did you go, did you go? Oh, I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm lonely, lonely, I
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thank You Hullabahoos certainly feeling a lot less lonely right now with
you in our digital lives good job and wonderful as always
our next piece is pretty much both poetry and comedy it's UVA alum Ron
Suskind who shares a relevant poem from Charles Bukowski called The Laughing
Heart delivering it and what he calls common voices voices we all know and
share the voices of our US Presidents which he can do as you will see quite
well next stop SNL for you Ron Suskind
your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission be on the watch
there are ways out there is light somewhere it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness be on the watch the gods will offer you choices chances
I got that wrong, offer you chances know them take them you can't beat death but you
can beat death in life sometimes and the more often you learn to do it the more
light there will be and now my personal favorite your life is your life know it
while you have it you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you
Hi I'm Bill Antholis from the Miller Center and I'm Melody Barnes professor of practice
at the Miller Center and co-director of the Democracy Initiative we study the
presidency at the Miller Center as well as American history and politics and we
have a poem we want to read that came from Miller Williams the poet laureate
who read this poem at Bill Clinton's second inaugural in 1997 it's called Of History and Hope
We have memorized America how it was born and who we have been and
where in ceremonies and silence we say the words telling the stories singing
the old songs we like the places they take us mostly we do the great and all
the anonymous dead are there we know the sound of all the sounds we brought the
rich taste of it is on our tongues but where are we going to be and why and who
the disenfranchised dead want to know we mean to be the people we meant to be to
keep on going where we meant to go how do we fashion the future who can say how
except in the minds of those who will call it now the children the children
and how does our garden grow with waving hands Oh rarely in a row and flowering
faces and brambles that we can no longer allow who were many people coming
together cannot become one people falling apart who dreamed for every
child and even chance cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not whose law
was never so much of the hand as the head cannot let chaos make its way to
the heart who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child cannot
let ignorant spread itself like rot we know what we have done and what we have
said and how we have grown degree by slow degree believing ourselves toward
all we have tried to become just and compassionate equal able and free all
this in the hands of children eyes already set on a land we never can visit
it isn't there yet but looking through their eyes we can see what our long gift
to them may come to be if we can truly remember they will not forget
Thank you Bill and Melody and all of our friends at the Miller Center I think that was
absolutely great if the loose theme of today's show is
love I think we're in for a treat as our final act chief of pediatric surgery
Gene McGahren wanted to surprise his wife Catherine on this today their
wedding anniversary Gene is a talented musician who put this song together as a
surprise to Catherine who I think is watching right now so happy
anniversary Catherine and enjoy Gene McGahren
Hi my name is Gene McGahren and I
work at the UVA Children's Hospital and a little over 20 years ago when my wife
and I were expecting our first baby we called it little one because we
didn't know if it was gonna be a boy or a girl
I wrote the song at the time, My Love and My Little One but now the song goes out
to my love Catherine happy anniversary and to our four big ones Christopher and
Caroline who are both UVA undergrads go Hoos and Matthew and Annie who are our
high schoolers go Warriors and any of you who might have your own little ones
growing into big ones all too soon
[GUITAR PLAYING]
She came to me with a knowing smile Said “you and me have been alone for a while”
“But Honey, changes gonna happen real soon” “Cause, you, George Bailey, have lassoed the moon…”
Well I looked at her, and she looked at me With wonder how our love could make us three
And I would be happy if it’s plain to see You look a lot like her and a little like me…
Now, story tell times and nursery rhymes Are all a little strange to me
But your Mother’s love is gonna help us make it through….
You see a Daughter will glow or a Son will shine Either way I’m glad that you’re hers and mine
And from the sun’s first rays ‘til the day is done I’ll love my Love and my Little One
Well, once your Mom and I were sittin’ by a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G
We fell in love, and then came marriage And now we’re looking for your jogger carriage
And I was just thinking what a joy you’ll be When you spend half the night wakin’ Mommy and me
But a “coo” and a smile and you’ll know I’ll be Just wrapped around your finger when you wink at me…
Well you’ll laugh and you’ll cry and you’ll toddle and you’ll fall
but your Momma and I will love you through it all
‘Cause we both know you’ll be growing all too soon
And a Daughter will glow or a Son will shine Either way I’m glad that you’re hers and mine
And from the sun’s first rays ‘til the day is done I’ll love my Love and my Little One
And when it’s time to share your life with another
The greatest Gift you’ll give your Dad and your Mother
Is passing on all the love we gave to you…
And then your Daughter will glow or your Son will shine Just remember when you were hers and mine
And from the sun’s first rays ‘til the day is done Just love your Love and your Little Ones
[GUITAR PLAYING]
hope you liked it
That's it week six of the show hopefully you enjoyed it if
you'd like to submit uvaarts@virginia.edu it was a bit of a longer
episode but I would argue that this whole thing right now life feels like
kind of a longer episode so maybe appropriate if you've made it to the end
of this episode you're of course going to be treated to cute kids playing music
this is the nephew of a UVA doctoral student who is going to play an
avant-garde very sullen performance on the mandolin this closing out Episode
six of Arts on the hill be well and I hope one day I get to meet y'all in
person Digital is cool but I'm a hugger