- [Announcer] Major funding for "A Night of Georgia Music" is provided by the Peyton Anderson Foundation, investing in the good works of people in Central Georgia and improving their quality of life through community development, education, health, human services, and arts and culture; and by the W. Mansfield Jennings Junior Charitable Trust.

Additional funding is provided by the Knight Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.

(indistinct chattering) (birds chirping) (gentle guitar and piano music) (gentle violin solo) - Well, it began when Bobby and I had dinner in Athens and he made a proposal to me to write a concerto for violin, rock band and string orchestra.

And I was sort of at loose ends, my band had retired and I said, "Well, that's certainly gonna be a challenge.

should I decide to accept it."

And I did a thing that we think is pretty cool.

So we played that a few times and then we realized that to really to give it legs, to be able to present it to a wide arrange of people, we needed another piece to the puzzle.

So we were just brainstorming and we thought, "Well you know, since Georgia is such a great state for music and musicians."

It's just, I mean, the most fertile state in the country as far as I'm concerned.

So I said, "All right, well, we'll just curate an hour of songs either about Georgia or by Georgia artists or in some cases a combination of both."

And once we did that, we said, "Okay, we need another player.

It can't just be the violin for the whole time.

We need a piano player."

It didn't take long to come up with the one and only that could possibly fit and make it as good as it is.

And that was Chuck, and we were like, "Oh gosh, will he do it?

Should we ask him?"

I don't know."

And the lightning struck and he said, "Yes."

- The truth is they know that I work cheap, so... (all laugh) No, it was an honor to be asked and I thought it was a brilliant concept because as Mike points out that Georgia has produced so many great songs, great artists and so, you know, the hard part was knowing what to leave out.

(gentle violin, guitar, piano music) (dramatic orchestral music) (bright violin solo) (bright violin solo continues) (bright orchestral music) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (upbeat guitar music) (audience cheering) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (bright piano solo) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (audience cheering) (bright piano solo) (bright piano music continues) (bright piano music continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (audience cheering) (heavy drum solo) - Whoo!

(audience cheering) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat guitar solo) (upbeat guitar solo continues) (upbeat guitar solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (intense violin solo) (bright piano solo) (intense violin solo) (bright piano solo) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (audience cheering and applauding) (audience continues cheering) (upbeat funk music) (upbeat funk music continues) (upbeat funk music continues) (upbeat funk music continues) (upbeat funk music continues) (bright violin solo) (bright violin solo continues) (upbeat funk music) (upbeat funk music continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (upbeat piano solo) (upbeat piano solo continues) (upbeat piano solo continues) (upbeat funk music) (audience cheering and applauding) (audience continues cheering) (tense orchestral music) - Yeah!

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- You're so good.

- Thank you, thank you.

Let's do this thing.

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(audience cheering and applauding) (soft orchestral music) (bright orchestral music) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (bright orchestral music continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (bright piano solo) (upbeat violin solo) (bright piano solo) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat violin solo) (bright piano solo) (upbeat rock music) (bright piano solo) (bright piano solo continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (audience cheering) (intense violin solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (audience cheering and applauding) - Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you so much.

Just a little program note about this next song.

This features, this orchestra is all students from the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University.

(audience applauding) Thank you.

Conducted by Ward Stare.

And this next song features the very same orchestra.

Thank you.

- Whoo!

- Whoo!

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(upbeat pop music) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat pop music) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (upbeat pop music continues) (audience cheering and applauding) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat piano solo) (upbeat violin and piano solo) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (bright piano solo) (audience applauding) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (upbeat pop music) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (audience cheering and applauding) (gentle piano music) (gentle piano music continues) (gentle piano music continues) (soft pop music) (audience applauding) (soft pop music continues) (soft pop music continues) (gentle piano solo) (gentle piano solo continues) (gentle piano solo continues) (gentle piano solo continues) (gentle piano solo continues) (gentle piano solo continues) (gentle piano solo continues) (soft pop music) (soft pop music continues) (soft pop music continues) (soft pop music continues) (bright piano solo) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (audience applauding) (soft piano solo) (soft piano solo continues) (soft piano solo continues) - Whoo!

- Come on.

(audience cheering and applauding) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) - Yeah!

- Whoo!

(gentle violin solo) (gentle violin solo continues) (gentle violin solo continues) (gentle violin solo continues) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (soft rock music) (soft rock music continues) (audience applauding and cheering) (gentle string music) - Good evening, everyone.

On behalf of Bobby and Chuck and Ward and all the fabulous musicians on stage tonight, I wanna thank you for coming to "A Night of Georgia Music" at the beautiful Grand Opera House in Macon, Georgia.

(audience applauding) Just a couple of quick things.

I wanna thank just a few people really quickly.

Larry Brumley, hold your applause till the end.

Larry Brumley and Mercer University for helping us put this on.

Dewitt Burton who does all the work that you don't see, without which this would never happen.

And even maybe more, especially David Mallamud, who arranged all of these beautiful string parts, the orchestra parts that you're hearing tonight.

Couldn't have done it without him either.

One last thing I wanna say is I wanna make sure everyone knows that despite the appearance this is not strictly speaking a classical piece, therefore, we are not bound by the usual restrictions on behavior of classical music.

(audience laughs and cheers) So feel free to express your appreciation at any time and in any fashion that you feel so moved to do.

Thank you and enjoy.

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(gentle piano music) (audience applauding) - [Audience Member] Whoo!

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(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (dramatic orchestral music) (dramatic orchestral music continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (bright guitar solos) (upbeat rock music) (intense violin solo) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (hard rock music) (audience cheering and applauding) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) (audience continues cheering) - Yeah, let's go.

(strings tuning) (strings tuning) (audience cheering) (audience continues cheering) - Yeah!

- Whoo!

- Whoo!

- Whoo!

- [Audience Member] Whoo!

- Whoo, whoo!

- Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

- Whoo!

(indistinct) (strings tuning) - [Audience Member] Let Mike sing!

(band and audience members laugh) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (audience cheering) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (bright violin solo) (bright violin solo continues) (bright violin solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (bright piano music) (bright piano music continues) (bright piano music continues) (bright piano music continues) (upbeat rock music) (bright piano solo) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (bright piano solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (audience cheering) (upbeat violin solo) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (upbeat violin solo continues) (intense violin solo) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (intense violin solo continues) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat violin solo) (audience cheering) (upbeat rock music) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (upbeat rock music continues) (audience cheering ana applauding) - Well, let me say, what I think a wonderful thing it was that Bobby wanted to, you know, come out of the classical world and do this.

And I think all of us feel the same way about music.

You know, you just shouldn't segregate anything to do with music.

And Bobby, you know, that's a challenge and that's a pretty bold move to come out and play with a rock band and get Mike to write a concerto.

And then for us to come together with these fantastic arrangements that David has put together, and then to perform them and to perform them with Bobby's students who are brilliant, by the way, just brilliant.

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