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listening to the legendary django reinhardt play is an amazing experience and the lightning quick runs of notes the exuberance of the performance the delight in the music and knowing that this gypsy guitarist had a crippled left hand with to useless fingers makes his musicianship even more extraordinary django reinhardt was born in belgium in nineteen ten when he was eighteen a caravan fire left him with a badly burned left hand so he invited his whole method of playing the guitar before long he was getting jobs and attention in paris as part of the quintet of the hot club of france when war broke out in your django elected to remain in france despite the nazi persecution of gypsies we continued to perform and to record and after the war found he had become a favorite of american jazz musicians he even spent nineteen forty six plan with the duke ellington orchestra in the united states although by the end of that decade he had largely disappeared from the jazz singer he died at age forty

three in nineteen fifty three david sebring as a member of the gypsy andres a local group to take great delight in performing in the exuberant gypsy style david vividly remembers his first exposure to music django reinhardt one of the teenagers and enlisting in the sixties beatles thing heavy or to a friend's house who was in my town erie pennsylvania the best player in town put this one record on this gift he got to cover when i put the record on i said oh the turntables at the wrong speed its ousted planet forty five or seventy acres and those were the snowman a switch it sounds really have two fingers oy way moreover he had to prove to me that that was the rider's we dive bar that record to go home and listen to it possibly every day for years david met peter kercher several years ago and was some other like minded souls they formed peter parker and the gypsy on race and what their gigs

paul gamble music director of the national chamber orchestra happen to be in the audience he liked what he heard so he asked begin ceo's resident composer con dios or if she could write a work for the gypsy andres and the chamber orchestra she began reading about django reinhardt listening to his music and working with peter parker and david c bring the result is this too right and the thing that impressed me the most about this is just the exuberance of the human spirit the germans came and i think in what nineteen forty and said no more music of anything except german origin well you know louis armstrong and duke ellington count basie they had been in paris and they've been playing django is struggling a little bit though it hadn't really broken out and then as soon as the germans

kamen outlawed the club's allied anything american outlawed any jazz of course then it exploded i just find that fascinating david sebring also finds this period and reinhart's career fascinating picture home of django playing for some gestapo officers they didn't want to get caught but the top guys would go and listener django play and they would trade records and there's a story about the me in a railroad station where the gestapo an ss are approaching the american colonels they face off the violence is due to be easy recruits for new trade records and going off bombs in the macro on them after the trigger effect a turnaround although there were many dark and terrible days in paris during the nazi occupation khan el source says it was never reflected in reinhart's music by listener jingles musical i felt was this joy i think we were going for something of that spirit but yet with a reminder of the darkness so that's why i brought in the cello i'm using the cello in the piece as sort of a counterbalance he's the dark heavy passionate and obviously more classical

side and he comes in and out of different kittens as he starts the piece and he comes in and out as a counterbalance to the gypsy fill in all the joyful exuberance of that music man when asked how he would describe gypsy music peter parker has a simple one word answer passion i think that's what music is all about it's very emotional it's very organic than that also tends to be modal built on those scales and course django and stuff or a pele brought with it like the six on the record and

there's a real dance basketball yeah paul cezanne well there's a big dance thing as father once they literally shaped the better for al qaeda claudio osorio is no stranger to using unusual combinations of musicians and instruments in a composition she wrote a blackberry winter or dulcimer and chamber orchestra and the result is a very popular lore which is programmed frequently by classical music stations all across the country this time it was khan el sourced task to integrate that gypsy songs written by david c bring into the classical music format that i wanted to approach it from the standpoint of a concerto grosso for so it's got you know the mill moment been sloth got a bit of a slow introduce and i well i grew up for very were roughly in the first moment this amazing because now you mentioned segments or styles forms of

music from just the whole gamut musical history you know it's like all in the swampy we bring in the chamber orchestra i feel like that's my job is to incorporate those those elements and to provide the platform for you guys to do at risk by cummins workers when she put my tunes huge melodies her music together it's not for any levees at applebee's peter her and the gypsy andres joined the nashville chamber orchestra for the premiere of a new wind to la and we had a concert presented tomorrow night at eight am war memorial auditorium the entire concert reflects the music from or inspired by the world war two era including dmitri shostakovich is chamber symphony and david diamond's rounds for string

orchestra the and ceo will also perform this concert in clarksville at austin peay state university sunday afternoon a tune for tickets are available by calling the and ceo went to five six six five for six or the national public radio it is