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Hi everyone I'm Jim Ryan and I'm here
with my trusty camera woman otherwise

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known as my daughter Phoebe and together
we are delighted to welcome you to arts

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on the hill the digital edition now as
some of you may know last month we

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started a program here at Carr's Hill
called arts on the hill where we invited

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local and visiting performers to perform
for students faculty and staff and at

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that first performance we had a faculty
member playing the marimba a student

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reciting an original poem and an amazing
choir from Oakwood University for this

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first digital addition you've already
heard from John D'earth a legendary

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trumpet player and faculty member here
at UVA coming up you'll hear from a

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student acapella group an MFA student
reciting an original poem on being

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quarantined and an amazing cello
performance from a fourth-year student

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the show is going to be hosted by my
remarkably talented colleague Matt Weber

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who works in the president's office and
has acquired the unofficial title of

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chief creativity officer he along with
vice provost for the Arts

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Jody Kielbasa have done an amazing job
of pulling together these performances

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and also sending out a call to other
performers who we can feature in later

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shows now we were originally going to
have arts on the hill just once a month

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but my view is that we need the arts
more than ever so our hope is to post

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something every Sunday night at 8 p.m. I
think the arts speak to the full range

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of the human condition which is on vivid
display right now sorrow and joy tragedy

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and triumph selfishness and selflessness
and it's a time for us through the Arts

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I think to connect as a community
because the arts remind us of the

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transcendent and the enduring isn't that
right Phoebe?

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yeah that's what I thought too so on
behalf of Phoebe and myself welcome to

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some of you and welcome back to others I
hope you enjoy the show thanks Phoeb

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our first performance today is
'Hoos in Treble. UVA's internationally renowned

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all female a cappella group since 1999. Thank you for letting me crash your rectangles.

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Here we go.

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hi I'm Raisa and I am a poet through UVA's
MFA program and I wrote a poem about

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being quarantined and the coronavirus
so this called Coronas and it begins

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with a passage from Dante

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Dante Sodom those concentric circles of
light around the moon one a reflection

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of the other another a flame set of
professor not long ago as I thumbed page

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after page and looked up at Corona
golden wreath far from pale lager left

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behind a cold ring on the bar I learned
of mouthy constellation Corona borealis

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Eagle's Nest Bearsden
how in the end Adrian tosses her crown

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into elf Alka blaze star arch of light
across the sky it's hung over our heads

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for some time now my hands are drier
than they've ever been and I can only

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see the eyes of the people I love
profunda a Chiara like in middle school

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when we covered the bottom half of our
faces guess if I'm smiling guess if I'm

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we called it smizing from profound and
luminous mouths don't touch dante looked

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and was not blinded love told him i am
like the center of a circle every night

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I walk home I stare straight at the moon
beautiful poetry Raisa and for anyone

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who wants to learn more about what she's
writing or has written you can check out

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her website and if I'm doing an okay job
editing this show it's gonna show up

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right here the URL should be right right
here if we're gonna be bringing up Dante

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though golly
the phrase that I've been thinking a lot

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about is abandon all hope ye who enter
here these are trying times these are

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scary times and I must say that what
gets me through it is knowing that in

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the
Divine Comedy things are bad in the

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inferno for sure but Virgil gets us
through that gets us through purgatory

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oh and to the Paradiso so I'm really
counting on a bunch of Virgil's out

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there who know a little bit about
pandemics to help out and I see that

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every day
and I'm very grateful and in terms of

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more metaphorical artistic Virgil's who
can nourish our hearts these days our

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last performance is certainly one of
them John Canoe is a fourth-year cellist

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and what he's about to perform for you
from the deck of his house I think will

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give you chills
Nessun Dorma thank you John

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all right folks that's the end of our
show totally low production value I'm

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holding an iPhone in my yard right now
but in terms of artistic performance and

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caliber hopefully quite high let John
know just what an incredible cello

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performance he provided he was supposed
to have a concert at the end of March in

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Old Cabell Hall which obviously is not
happening but let him know how much his

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song meant to you which is leading me to
my final thought the song he chose

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Nessun Dorma translates to let no one
sleep and as the father of a

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three-year-old and a one year old and as
I know multiple people out there or

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maybe watching this after your day and
after a week of both homeschooling their

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children and watching their children and
doing their work let no one sleep seems

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to resonate quite well and we just want
to give you an outlet if you need to

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fill any elements of your days let us
know what your kids are doing musically

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and we'll throw them on the end of this
show every Sunday like with the green

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woods and the banks on this first
episode of Arts on the hill