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The. Funding for Maryland state of mind is provided by the 13 institutions of the university system of Maryland. I Bishan the funding is provided by horizon which is proud to support the university system of Maine. Coming up next on Maryland state of mind. Journey to Rome and discover a little known archaeological treasure that was buried under the Vesuvius 79. See how scientists are trying to save the oyster and the livelihood of Marilyn's Waterman while helping to restore the Chesapeake Bay in the process. Of a trial and help unearth one of Maryland's lost towns buried by time. And since the Revolutionary War and sit back and enjoy the work of one Congress that produces only harmony the world Chello Congress three. It's all coming up next on Maryland's state of mind.

The air. Air we enter. The air. Thanks you. And welcome to Maryland state of mind. I'm your host an emperor Centurion Scott Simon. When the tsunami s are up in 79 A.D. it's lava sealed the fates of the cities of Pompei and Herculaneum. But it also in tombs some spectacular villas known as ancient Stabat that look out over the Bay of Naples. Now a team of architects and students from the University of Maryland College Park is working with the Tele

and authorities to transform the site into a major archaeological park. It's an exciting endeavor for students and staff alike. As one would expect when the project is in the vicinity of the basilica Yes. When the volcano Vesuvius erupted that fateful day in August 79 A.D.. Its Ashes created a time capsule from the Roman Empire. Freezing a moment in time for every. Entrant life became instantly in tune in the cities of Pompei and Herculaneum. The inhabitants and their homes sealed in silence for nearly 17 centuries. But few know that there was another sight swallowed by Vesuvius that day.

A cluster of magnificent seaside was owned by Rome's wealthy and powerful. Ancient stubbing. Three villas of six have been partially excavated. And their magnificence only fires the imagination. But what yet may be unveiled. But much is to be done. Today a team of architects and students from the University of Maryland College Park is working with the Italians to turn these ancient ruins into an archaeological wonder. Did you enjoy it. So you. See.

The team is going to create a master plan for a proposed archaeological park. The first step is a careful survey to determine where every building and road is. The fortunate thing about these sites are that they're very clear. These are sites that have been occupied for 2000 years as we've seen other projects that we've done for example in Israel and Turkey. This is a project that was buried in 79 80 and has not seen the light of day since. So everything is in place that makes it. Once you excavate it very easy to draw and to understand. Another part of the team's work is to measure and record all the existing structures stone by stone. While digital cameras and computers are beginning to augment this traditional skill. The talent to draw with a pencil and paper is too prized for a variety of reasons. Well every time you draw something you learn about it. It's really drawing really helps you to see things you can look at something and think that you're seeing it but you don't really see it

until you take the time to make that connection between your head and your eye and put it down on paper. The architect had many challenges with the project such as how to preserve the aesthetics of the villas in a more creative fashion. But most pressing is a new roof design that would shelter as well as enrich the ancient flavor of the excavation. So one of the ideas here is to both clean it up make it more aesthetically pleasing and also to make it more functional. This is not a reconstruction of the original Roman. Shape. We might give them a feeling of what their own space might have been like. Ultimately it's a structure of today. To work on an ancient site. The students require an intimate understanding of the purpose and role the buildings were designed for. No theatrical masks. On the windows. That's sort of the window view

here. Of the tragic master. The fact that it lands favor the tragic mask here with ice. Just plain a still life. Is much more than there are a lot of it is much more focused culturally unlike pumping or hiking on this site and system since loose a real number a very high status of those very well preserved which were focused around the panoramic view of the Gulf of Naples. Here we have the ground the playground of the rich and powerful. Here we have places where there was a world the senatorial classes were removed during the senatorial holidays in the late summer. The room showed the scars of its first excavation over 250 years ago when

the ruling bourbon sent men to tunnel into the Roman treasures for their palaces. The brainchild of University of Maryland graduate student Leonardo Verrone restoring ancient Star Beer is more than a master's thesis. First paper. But something real something that could really become reality. And because of archaeology we have been living all my life in a very dense area in terms of history of culture. I thought that would be would have been a great idea to develop these projects for an archaeological or logical park in my hometown. Ready for what you are saying.

Just to have a role working with these ancient Roman structures is a bit breathtaking for these students. For an architect it is being near greatness. It's very interesting to see the decoration and when you take a stand that has been pressing the community and everybody around you and. In the way that the buildings were designed to reflect to them. And. Of course not always the case. And it's almost unreal to stand here and. Be kind of. Unified theme with a live show. You walk in the hall at. The front to. Be able to feel like you were part of that. These ancient Roman treasures do more than call out to us from the past. They share with us the lives of another time. Begging to be discovered. Asking to be protected. So that we might know the roots of the civilization. That gave us so much. If you'd like to see more

about our story on the restoration of ancients Davia watch our Maryland state of mind special Under the Volcano. Thursday October 5th at 8 p.m. they're uncovering the lost city and discovering great history from their earliest kernel. Coming up later on Maryland state of mind. Nothing goes down better in the fall than football beer and a dozen oysters on the half shell. But this delicacy has been decimated by a host of diseases that threaten not only the oysters but the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Now scientists from University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute are making significant strides in dealing with these diseases including developing sophisticated new test to detect. All of this bodes well for our bivalve brains. It's research we like to call science. On the half step.

Chesapeake Bay oysters to plump up to the most of the last two centuries is a succulent bivalves to poison. Why the oyster industry that was into gold to the economy and way of life of the Chesapeake Bay. But the bill is boundless oyster harvest. Are things that past. Sound was once one of the bay's most productive oyster thistle is but an oyster population survey of today brings out more dead oysters known as boxes than live ones. And many surveys when the seas is quite active we bring up the dragon it's still mostly looked at oysters and just a year before they were alive. So we've seen this time and time again and it's very disheartening to see the French. Overfishing started to decline reducing Maryland oyster harvest from 15 million bushels a year in the 1880s to two million bushels of cents a liter.

But the crushing blow was dealt by two mysterious diseases called dermal and M.S. x. Although they're not harmful to humans. These parasites began to ravage the remaining oyster stocks in the 1980s. Thanks for men like you know meetings we've had around one the oyster harvest that we've had in the creek is easier. So that's a dramatic decline. And it's not the economic impact alone that's cause for concern for the filter feeding algae eating oysters are critical to the blues. A logical voice with a force field to the water to produce more oysters thriving with your population attracts other organisms to the bottom. So a thriving oyster bar is actually a community of other organisms as well. But now there is new hope for the beleaguered oyster. The science of marine biotechnology is offering tools never before available for

diagnosing and attacking the disease. Some of the leading research in this field is being conducted by here Rado Vostok at the University of Maryland Center of marine biotechnology. He's focusing on the Durham o parasite. The Breakthrough Eight years ago we were able to culture that this is a first step for addressing questions. Any infectious disease where this is affecting humans or whether this is affecting or using these cultured parasites biassed and his associates have been seeking answers to a question that plagues scientists for years. How is the dermal parasite able to outsmart the oyster's immune system in the natural environment. Oysters are continuously exposed to large numbers of microbes that could be potential victims but oysters have to be analogous to our blood.

Take these microbes and killed them. When these blood cells are confronted with the verbal parasite they can open this. Lab is gaining insight into how dermal blocks the oyster's immune response. Hope that scientists could eventually employ selective breeding techniques or use gene transfer technologies to create oysters that are better defended against the parasite. These are but the long term solutions I mean these are solutions for the future and we are a few years away still when applying these technologies. But the bay may see more immediate benefit from a different aspect of. His team have managed to identify a unique strand of DNA in a dermal parasite. And now they develop diagnostic tests. For. Poor and genetic material.

These probes go in a voice. For the presence or absence of disease. We manage our oyster resource and these new diagnostic tests may find an immediate use in the bay. Under the recently signed Chesapeake 2000 agreement a new push is underway to rebuild oyster reefs and oyster stocking. And the probes can play a crucial role in detecting and monitoring disease in these restoration efforts and the restoration effort requires Poyser see that or spat that is an infected start. So it is important to sort the follow the seen as a disease free. And finally these probes are very important to monitor the progress of the restoration. Of these always are going to become infected

and to what extent the diseases present. The test could also benefit oyster farmers and give a boost to that industry which is still in its infancy in Maryland. Its always a farmer once you start an oyster culture. He's going to be interested in making sure that what he plants his disease. And whether they're planted in the natural oyster fishery or in an oyster farm disease free stocks can give oysters a critical jump on the disease. You're really in a race between the disease killing the oyster and the oyster growing to a market size. And this does give the industry as its development opportunities to try. The winner of that race. But winning that race would be a victory for more than just the oyster or the oyster industry.

Was a major problem in the oyster industry today. Joyce theory of the eastern species in the back. It's the most important animal out there. If we can fix the problem with Oyster then we can fix that. Food that's both tasty and safe is always on the menu in this laboratory. The next eating is later in our show. Lost civilizations have always held a certain level of fascination for contemporary archaeologists. What's amazing is that even Maryland has its share of lost towns and forgotten antiquities. That's why there's a good deal of excitement in the University of Maryland Baltimore County as Asian Studies Department. They're working on some of Maryland's most intriguing archaeological sites. And while they may not turn up a golden idol they are an earthing a golden past.

It was plain too who first rode to the last world a continent so rich with minerals that its inhabitants created buildings of gold silver and bronze. Island or missed Atlantis has retained its elusive status for over 2000 years. A pattern throughout history civilizations cities and towns have come and gone. However it does not always take thousands of years for a place to vanish. Three hundred years ago. A few miles from Annapolis on the shore of the South River a bustling tobacco town once flourished. Now. It no longer exists. London Town is a fascinating place. It was founded in 69 83 and at one

point in the early seventeen hundreds was probably the principal tobacco port in Maryland. It thrived for about a century and during the Revolutionary War the economic depression seems to have wiped the place out. Actually looks like that's the second thing. There's a line archaeologist around Lucan Bach is rediscovering the past with the enter a new county launced towns project London Town is the largest of the dig sites and with help from the University of Maryland Baltimore County they reveal more of what life was like 300 years ago. Their involvement with the MDC has been quite close. It started with Dr. Goldberg from the ancient studies department sending me some talented interns and some of these people have been so talented that we've managed to add them to our staff and keep them around permanently. In studies department is really a multi disciplinary Department. And in that it really mirrors the kind of activities that take place on an archaeological dig. Some of our students will go to training excavations

abroad but the majority of them won't. So we are really concerned about a good excavation London Town is one of those excavations and it's like it's probably the best. All that remains of the 150 buildings that once made this town is a single home and remnants in the earth. The history of the site comes up from the ground artifacts things that people have made and buildings and features like fire pits post poles where wooden architecture has been. I'm uncovering a post hole in a post mold the structural element of the earth best buildings here at London town. They're very common in the 17th and 18th century Chesapeake. The buildings from this period do not have foundations. They're just posts in the ground and very distinctive footprints coming up on the end here. Yeah using a combination of high technology

and tried and true sifting methods objects emerge from the earth right. I. Want to. Put it. Right. Back at the county offices. Objects are clean catalog and stored for a future display. The object's location mapping and historical research is processed for the 3D mapping of London town. Computer animation helps them to see on a greater scale. It looks like a more elegant and they can they can constantly

shift and move it to different angles whereas paintings and drawings and things like that you're pretty much fixed to where the artist has placed an advance warning. Right now time of rendering the interior of a 17th century home. And I'm trying to create a candle stand and this is dated around the 16th 70s and the good thing about 3D modeling is that you can use the measurements that are given just the clues that the archaeologists find to create and render out in three dimensions what can only be guessed at. Fifty miles north in Baltimore's Fells Point. More discoveries are being made. Renovating his property. The owner of this simple looking building came across a fascinating fact. Over 170 years ago the second storey

was used as the first Jewish synagogue in America. Calling upon historians an archaeologist from the Baltimore Center for Urban archaeology. Baltimore Hebrew University and U.N. B.C. they began to dig. In April 1998. I received a phone call from Brian Schwartz who owned a property at the corner flea bond in Baltimore City and three gentlemen were doing some archaeology in his backyard and he asked me to come down and take a look at. The features and the artifacts that they had discovered. We believe that the building was built in 1797. Our major question when we did the excavation was whether we actually had the remains of the building that had been used in 1830 by the synagogue. So during the excavation it was very important to find deposits that predated 1830. And when we began in this room the first area that we worked on

was here because we had some brick protruding above the surface. And it grew and it grew and we ended up with this large fireplace. The artifacts in the bottom of the fireplace indicated that it had been built in the late 18th century. Previous our outhouse. So any trash that was in the house or laying around the yard. You had a whole scoop your trash up and throw it into the hole with what you find in a Privy can tell you an enormous amount about the people who live there. What they are literally foreign archaeologists is a time capsule. So this is a sample and of what came out of the Provers like. This would be a bold household. So this is Bandit and you're aware which is very largely dried in this neighborhood. We have an assortment of the Tiber where it would be a typical experience I'm doing here is basically real world work experience that I can use after

I finish college. Nothing. I'm totally thrilled that our students have the opportunity to use the skills that they've learned in the studies department in a totally new venue. The fact that they get a chance to do what they really love to do. And follow their hearts and come into the discipline and then actually be employed that's quite impressive. They protect modern civilization on. The. Mornington ones off duty. Coming up later on Maryland state of mind. The chickens are an important part of our food supply. I guess I shouldn't say that too loud one of these little guys but improperly handled or prepared meat can result in food poisoning often with dire results. In an effort to minimize this possibility researchers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore are studying how and where bacteria can enter the food chain is especially in the poultry industry. This

research could lead to additional improvements in food processing. For these scientists it's definitely a bit of detective work as they follow the path of the pathogens. It is a necessary and critical part of our existence. Fruits vegetables poultry they all supply us with essential vitamins and nutrients allowing us to live healthy lives. But what happens when the food we eat contains harmful bacteria and disease causing pathogens. This may or people a year in that country get sick from all types of food borne diseases. About three hundred seventy five thousand of that need hospitalisation and unfortunately about 5000 of them die nationwide.

In order to improve safety in the nation's food chain. Poultry farmers on the eastern shore and poultry processing plants are working with scientists. Their goal to better understand the relationship between environmental sources of bacteria and the spread of pathogens. Research microbiologist Dr. June Graf Hansen and a team of students at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore hope their recently launched study will help genetically fingerprint certain bacterial organisms in poultry. Collect. A sample. Analyze it. To see. How they come into. The House and. Brings them. What brings them a. Significant. And whether. On the processed carcass. Because ultimate

buys. Because we have the chicken farm. It's perfect that you are able to do this. People are more concerned about what they're eating where they're coming from before bacteria they could have on them. We're looking at cells. At the feet of the water that you drink. And drive how. Much salt. We collect in say to my house. The bats fly overhead. Time. Sometimes on the ground and along the way that. Servicemen walk in and out of the house they trudged through the mud and I think.

Who has a pathogen in his body on the ground. And the farmers and everybody tracks it. The samples are brought back to the lab for testing. Dr. Hansen is specifically looking for salmonella and can follow back to the main causes of food borne illness. In nonselective. The water. Goes into. The water. To make it possible. To become a company. Under the powerful magnification of a microscope Dr. Hansen is able to study the cultures and observe one of the traits that make bacteria so harmful

bacteria are not like you are not bacteria as single cells they just grow by doubling. One little cell doubles and the two cells that double whammy come before so they become those double. They become 16. Well these cells are growing in numbers. Your chances of getting sick are also increasing after ingesting the bacteria. It takes anywhere from two to 10 days for symptoms to occur and run their course. But not everyone gets sick. First you need somebody who is susceptible. You need the right path to get the right street you need to get adequate numbers there are very good to go also give them something. Higher than the manifestations while I'm here my get stomach cramps or Domino pain your body is trying to get rid of it will do what normal people do for me to be sick

and what. Two major sources contribute to food borne diseases. The fastest food service establishment of the second is the home. That's what we threw into the thing with the whole contributions and greets at the side of the food borne disease outbreak in the country. While her research is inconclusive Dr. Hansen says there are basic steps you can take to prevent the possibility of food borne illness occurring in your home. At the top of the list hygiene hygiene plays a very big rule idols are good at telling children when they come out of the playground. Go wash your hands before supper. But I don't feel the need to take that advice for themselves. The food will. By Cierra cannot survive. Adequate heat. OK. Eat it in a reasonable amount of time. If you had enough of us refrigerator and when you come back to make sure there will it repeat it.

Try to break them so that. Nothing. For millions. It's not the staff of life but a source of strife. Find out why later state of mind. The US Navy is based around the world and its modern technological force is an interesting parallel to past great civilizations who once ruled the seas Ancient Greece for. Current the Navy and college courses for sailors and officers often linking promotion to college prep. The University of Maryland University College is a major provider of higher education to the military but a well-rounded education also in the humanities. And for some sailors

the edge of Greek civilization it's become an interesting mix of modern forces. Thanks. To the Usenet operates at the technical level fairly imagined by military planners of only a few decades ago. Due to control by men. Satellite based targeting. Nuclear powered ships and subs. This is not your father's movie. Now Egyptian art obviously is not totally unchanging. It may appear that way when we look at them. So why on earth are these sailors and their dependents in Italy studying of all things ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations. Here in Naples. Sharing facilities with a copy to Chino airport is a naval support facility at which sailors and marines operate and protect the sensitive communications

that are. On duty these sailors maintain a critical nerve center for U.S. forces in Europe and Asia. But off duty they gather another form of military intelligence college courses provided by the University of Maryland University College serving American troops at nearly 100 bases around the world. Lying down on page 70000 in art history class instructor Linda O'Brien opens minds with many details of civilizations many sailors have never heard of and in the process broadens their perspective of a complex world. But for these sailors based in Italy learning about ancient Greeks for example becomes positively compelling when that history is just down the road. Call up. The classic number will be along the front. 30. Or. Even 40.

And then inside the now. Which is the other called. The ancient ruins of past tomb were once part of the Greek Empire as it spread about the Mediterranean in approximately twenty five hundred be seen. These temples are among the finest examples found anywhere in the world outside of Athens Greece heard and produced so that it appears everything appears to be even. And that shows you that this is architecture rather than architecture. This is redundant. No one except in what in time. Because otherwise it would be too heavy. Most people are taking this class you are taking it because they're interested and getting to know the things around

them. Some of them are taking it because they have to take humanities classes and then others are taking it because they have no choice and they really hate. Having to do our humanities. When all they want to do is make it in the world of business and I always tell them they'll need a veneer of culture if they get to the top. But that's not the case for seaman Melissa ward. College courses were initially attracted because much of the tuition is paid for by the Navy. Learning that having something to fall back on when you get you know they pay 75 percent of your college while you're And plus they get a G.I. Bill. That was appealing to me and you get to go places while you're doing that. They emphasize college a lot here and on your evaluations it helps if you're taking college courses. They want to see you doing things besides just work. Before I went home on leave I wasn't taking the college course I wasn't pursuing as much as I should have and when all my leave I talked to my friends who are going to college and how expensive it really is.

And. That's what made me use the 7 it's because they pay for the 75 percent while you're And I might as well utilize that plus then use my GI bill when I get out and I get told. And these are the actual original. From the opportunity to see first hand these ancient civilization is through. You're standing where in a book and you're reading about how they wash your hair you can't get the full feeling of the love of this goddess until you

actually see the monuments and buildings that they built for this woman you know and it's like wow. And it's amazing. That's the only way to explain it is fantastic it's reading in the book you know like wow you know you can you can see the pitchers and you think this is a good photographer. But when you actually go to the site and you see these stones and you think what was going on at this time at this place. It was amazing it was. It was really it was like. Working with men and women in the military is different than teaching at a college campus. Generally they have time because they have often and they have requirements sometimes very heavy duty. Very. Little. To. Have. The class ask them via email for the rest of the class because they didn't want to miss the rest. So in that sense there are some problems sometimes logistically because they're working and they're working for the military and they don't always have a

choice as to how to allocate their time. Otherwise they're more interested and they have more or less organized their priorities. They want an education. Even reluctant students of ancient history find the charms of Italy to be very persuasive. And take them everywhere we go to Florence we're going to take them everywhere they see things they never even imagine. And generally I win them. If that doesn't work. Everything that I get. As these modern sailors tread carefully through the ruins of the nation civilization. They often return with a greater appreciation not only of the achievements of the past. But a new perspective on the present. This is one Congress that rules with harmony and surprise. It didn't convene in Washington.

Later in our show. Voters one of the great joys of life from parties to picnics to Krav. These people just love to eat. But for a surprising number of people in this country many of these foods are off limits. A little known but very real illness called Celiac disease causes the inability to digest gluten found in wheat used in many other products. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that it's much more common than ever believed and they've made some remarkable gains in understanding and treating this disease improving the lives of people who have. Worries about wheat or. I had a cancer every

day and in her anything she would she was becoming almost skeletal. What strange diseases confounded so many doctors produced such dire diagnoses. It's a medical condition. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for celiac research doctors are studying the disease developing treatments and searching for a cure. Dr. Alessio first son now an international authority on Celiac disease is co-director of the Center for what we understand this is what we typically call an odd immune disorder. In other words as a condition in which your body starts to be able under bodies against yourself and will attack someone you organise and see that

happen to be the intestine. And as a consequence you're not able to digest and therefore to absorb the stuff you have to have genes that make you predisposed to disease. We also know in C there were the environmental factors grains grains like wheat rye and barley. These grains contain a protein called gluten. It is this protein that causes the auto immune reaction in people with celiac disease. Avoiding gluten a poison to anyone with celiac disease means eliminating many of the foods the average American takes for granted. However once you know you are a Syriac you can then begin to control what you eat. By adopting a gluten free diet a celiac can live a perfectly normal life. The real problem for celiacs in the United States is getting the initial diagnosis. In the United States. Celiac is considered a rare disease and as a result it is usually the last thing that an examining

physician considers. They thought at one time had multiple sclerosis. I was tested numerous times in my life for rheumatoid arthritis problems per thyroid problems just that and the longer you go on diagnosed the less nutrients you're absorbing even though you're eating a good diet. 25 percent of her body weight and like a period of maybe 12 days and her pediatrician was watching him and he was thinking well you know it's going to pass. He kept on changing the formula. You know I thought maybe she had some allergies to certain food products maybe dairy products. I was diagnosed with a lot of different things not celiac disease all of which were incorrect. What that meant is I spent a lot of time going back and forth to the doctors insurance companies spent a lot of money trying to make me well again and nothing helped. It is interesting because the frequency of the disease in United States was described in beasts really rare by one of the people. At the same

time in Europe. There were studies that were performed that suggested the disease was just three Milli frequent like one of three hundreds. So. For me was really puzzling this kind of difference given that the genetics and the environmental factors they are operating in Europe. Must be Stream we see matter here in United States. And that prompts myself from my group to really start this scientific enterprise. The ration room was to put under the same roof a different expertise that included scientific expertise in terms of business science clinical expertise in terms of physicians to understand about celiac. Diagnostic expertise to facilitate a way to identify these folks all under the same roof. And this is kind of unique. A research project to identify the number of celiacs in the United States is currently under way. So far. Twenty nine states have been covered

and 10000 people screened. Preliminary numbers show that as many as 1 out of 120 Americans has Celiac disease is becoming to be by far the most frequent genetic diseases to ever experience this summer the center has launched a Celiac Awareness Campaign distributing nationwide a PSA featuring Oakland Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon routine can be extremely harmful. I know because my daughter Danielle has so many common foods with joy and tests. And the ninth International Symposium on Celiac disease was held this year in Baltimore. The first time ever in the United States. Researchers from around the world share their latest findings some of the most promising new findings came from studies conducted at the Center for celiac research. Doctor for Santa and his group have identified a hormone president in large quantities and

celiacs that is responsible for allowing the gluten molecule to pass through the intestinal wall and encounter the immune system triggering the auto immune reaction. Like yourself for. A variety of gluten free food products were on display many of them have yet to find their way onto the shelves of American markets. In Italy. Disease has been very well described in a lot of research has been done in the last 20 years and this has allowed us also as a company to develop ourselves. We try to offer a complete range of products with which a senior person can follow our normal diets at different times of the day be a breakfast meeting between meal snack or lunch or dinner. With the modern communications it seems it should be no problem in the near future for an American to live a normal way of life. Like the Europeans do. However the most important research presented was the finding of millions of

celiac sufferers in the United States who will now get the attention of physicians. They will also get the attention of the food companies who will see a large market for gluten free products. They will get the attention of drug companies sparking more interest in the search for a vaccine. All of which will make better the lives of those afflicted with celiac disease. It is not that greater than life for man. Us. If you'd like more information about any of the stories seen on Maryland state of mind visit our website at w w w dot MP t dot org or call 1 800 4 7 7 8 4 3 7. Cello is a magical instrument one that conveys emotion better than almost any instrument. Perhaps because it so resembles the human voice. So you can imagine the emotional output when hundreds of the world's best cellists convened on the campus of

housen University for the world cello Congress three. It was a stunning melodious confluence of stars including no less than Yo-Yo Ma in a week long celebration of teaching sharing and loving an instrument. That can only be said to emit notes. Of emotion. They came from all over the world with their beloved instruments intil over 600 musicians from over 40 countries making their way to Taos in Maryland to celebrate their love of the cello. Towson University had the incredible honor and responsibility of hosting the third world cello Congress this past June. It was a weeklong convocation equal parts symposium. Performance. And marketplace of goods and

ideas. Congress organizer and China lover Helen Brazil presided. The purpose of the World Congress is to bring together all of the great musicians of the world composers conductors Rangers educators instrument manufacturers and of course the stars. Throughout the Congress a single theme dominated the established masters passing on their passion to a new generation of talented young journalists. We have 21 master class schedule within the Congress. Nobody. Had. An effect like that. And they play the best teachers in the world.

The great luminaries of the cello world take part in a Slovak yellow starker. Bernard Greenhouse. And Yo-Yo Ma. Sœur. For a young person. I think it's a fabulous thing because you have to see the whole profession ahead of you. Nobody is a star is a Miss mysterious figure. You cannot talk to them. And what that does is that it just creates another generation of. Fabulous instrumentalists. Classes with Yo-Yo Ma her inspiration was a leaps. Right. And no participant is too young not to be taken seriously. Live. There is nothing to change

there. I love to play the cello is extremely difficult. It's a difficult instrument to play. For those who can master it the cello can sing with an extraordinary voice. So I was about. 10. And I thought that I went to a concert. And a podium and a figure playing the cello and the sound that I heard in my dream. I have tried. Like. Many instruments make the claim but if you can truly challenge the unique sound of the cello. The cello sound like a human voice. It's a very conversing type of instrument.

There's a connectedness. Physically the performer. And then to be able to do so sound. On every single. Other instrument. Because of this. Beautiful beautiful way out. In the bustle of the market area. Another aspect of cellists becomes apparent. Warm and friendly. You're through with. Something. It's a sentiment repeatedly expressed by these gregarious deeply collegial musicians.

I think cello players are. An unusually friendly bunch. You. Play the bass line which means and you play the foundation of the music. You also play. The melodies and you play in your voices and within even one piece you're switching around. At a series of concerts and recitals. The incredible range of the cellos personality is displayed. It's probably the string instrument which has the choice of sound. It can. Think. Of course. With. The Congress features Yo-Yo Ma performing a brand new work for cello by Peter Lieberman. The sixth round. The classical repertoire provides a great opportunity for artistry.

Leeway kins interpretation of Haydn's D Major concerto shows a great range of expression. Audiences enthusiastically enjoy this glorious display of talent. You could take or leave the cello before you do anything here. You're not going to have that feeling anymore. You're going to really know something and enjoy this instrument. The fabulous energy talent and sense of comradeship at the third world cello Congress are in a way a tribute to the high place in the world of the arts. The Thompson University now occupies. It was an enormous undertaking and they pulled it off. For people to jump on their feet immediately following its work. For everything that was played an entire concert. This says that it all works. We hope you've enjoyed our journey around the world through time and across the depth and breadth

of the university system of Maryland. We'll be back in the winter on another journey to the frontiers of knowledge. Until then I'm your Centurion. And Host Scott Simon on time. Funding for state of mind is provided by the 13 institutions

of the university system of Maryland. Admission funding is provided by horizon. Which is to support the university system of merit.