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Unknown: I thought we get the show on the road because I'm thirsty afterwards, afterwards. These are two sonatas of blues that are separated by well, more than 60 years. The third Piano Sonata was written in 1937 or 38, depending on what your

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information is, and the keyboard Sonata that I'll play afterwards was called the Sonata. 2000. So that of course 2k Actually, he called it 2k when I came in 1973 to interview for the position, I remembered, and I just confirmed this earline over and just

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confirmed it that William Marcellus was here and was a soloist on one of Carlos Chavez programs of chamber music program. And he played I distinctly remember he played this Sonata and I remember being in the auditorium at Cabrillo

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College for that and but just told me that we miss Ellis pick this piano at the factory for the festival What year was that? So for those of you who can't hear, but yell he just, he said that missiles flew up in 1972 the fact Steinway factory and

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help choose this instrument so it's kind of a nice circle. Anyhow, this is the third Piano Sonata from 1937 or 38. In three movements I was just reminded that this is one of my absolutely favorite

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panels. I always love playing on this instrument. And but this is one of the many things you've done for the community with this piano, but take care of it. I care. Now I'm moving over to this brown beauty here. Who wrote the

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keyboard Sonata in 2000. He was actually a sonata for harpsichord. And he sent it to me. And I thought, okay, I play occasionally harpsichord, but I'd rather play it on the piano. So I asked, was it okay? And he said, yes, it would be okay. And

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you don't even have to use a tuning, but it's nice if you use the tuning. He wrote the piece to be played with the tuning. They're called Karen Berger, number two, for those of you who know his piano concerto that Earth latos plays a great deal

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and Keith Jarrett also originally played, then also the piano was tuned to Karen Berger, number two, quickly for those of you would like to know about this. It's the tuning that Johann Sebastian Bach probably used. When he composed the well

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tempered club here. It was one of the early temperate tunings, meaning that you could play in many different keys on this piano, which was the of course the advantage and it was, what composers were struggling with so much was, they always had to

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put a tuning on an instrument before they could play in a particular key. And this was one of the early tunings before the one that we now use on the modern instrument where the octave is divided into 12 equal parts. Meaning that although we

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do it very cleverly, and we've gotten used to it, a piano like this, it's well in tune is actually, strictly speaking not really very well into this instrument has been tuned to Karen Berger. Number two, the tuning was put on this week, and

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it seemed to help pretty well, what basically happens is that the tuner will take the instrument through this circle of fifths and fourths, and all of the fourths and fifths are pure. They're not there's no fudge factor, he takes it all

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the way through. And at the end, the only embarrassing thing is, of course, you can't divide it that way equally, Something's got to give. And so there's the notice embarrassing that the A is the joke would have it which is to be equal in this between

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the DNA, the DNA, ie, the A comes in the middle. And so when you hear this, you hear this song, and that one, but the rest of the fifth. So if you play a chord in F sharp me C sharp major

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regression, you can hear the third and the fifth. It's it's quite an extraordinary sound instrument, Lou's instrumented, his house was tuned to Karen Berg, he has a lovely old Steinway up there. And actually, I practice just about everything

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on there also 12 tone pieces and you really can't do it. It's It's a lovely tuning and it's highly to be recommended for those who want to try it. You can have your instruments at home, tuned that way. It just takes a while for the instrument

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to adjust. And it's a very beautiful song. So we're going to give you an idea of we're going to play a play the keyboards. It's in three movements on this instrument, which is happened to be what we found here, but it's what it is,

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but you can hear the tuning at least It's not on the schedule but I thought I wanted to end going back to the real piano and I'm going to play from an arrangement I did have his suite for violin and gamelan. We call

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it suite for violin piano and string orchestra. And this is Java three from that movement. Where are you going on