I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart my spirit diligently inquires

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart my spirit diligently inquires

I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search.

I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search.

And I'm going to play some songs for you tonight that are, literally, world premieres.

Mountain roads, day and night, and even crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco.

When I was a boy, in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day, or the old songs.

In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.

It's just a curve without inflection.

It's called Abegg Variations, by Robert Schumann, a German 19th century composer.

And it describes how he feels when composing is going well.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane, and the two won't mix.

And we want to play a little piece for you by one of the most important composers of America.

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Chongqing is a hilly city with winding streets.

So, I commissioned a wonderful composer, Nico Muhly, who wrote nine songs using the text, and we performed this fantastic evening of he wrote music for both amateurs and professionals.

That's Clair de Lune.

So he wants fine motor control flex at the wrist, flex at the elbow, abduct and flex at the shoulder.

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River Suzhou is Shanghai's mother river twisting and turning, it stretches across and flows through the city center.

One of my heroes is songwriter, Ally Willis, who just wrote The Color Purple and has been an R and rhythm and blues writer, and this is what she said about where songwriting's going.

At some point around midnight, we were summoned to the wings of the stadium, and the loudspeakers announced the Olympic flag, and the music started by the way, the same music that starts here, the Aida March.

Whereas nature tends to be small, and curved, and it bends and twists, and has legs instead, and appendages, and has many muscles and many, many sensors.

But if you take a lens, like that, this line is ack, ack, ack, ack, ack. Like that.

There's a piece by a composer, an American composer called John Cage.

Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

How do I compose?

I baked cookies.

It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.

This is when those big forms arose the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos.

And the thing about this piece that's so special if you see it behind me it's not notated in any way.

And, as I said, the way the shape twists the directional along which way the shape is twisting as it moves over this curved surface is what the elementary particles are, themselves.

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Will we play a tune?

The learning curve was very long.