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Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast.

My name is Joshua Wilerstein.

I'm a conductor conductor and I'm the

artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lozan Switzerland. This

podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just

getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

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I'm just going to repeat my message from Monday's show that I've gotten a lot of emails over the past couple of months that this show has been a great escape from the news and honestly I'm really happy about that

It's been an escape for me as well to write to record and to share the show with you and I'm so grateful to everyone who has kept

listening throughout the pandemic. And today's show is the same with an exploration of

Bartok's amazing 44 violin duos. But I just feel as someone with a platform of sorts

that it would be an abdication of that platform to not even mention the ongoing unraveling of my home country the US over the past week.

I don't need to recap any of the news to you but I've used this space often over the past couple of months to plug my Patreon page and I am overwhelmed by your

support but today I am asking you specifically not to give to my Patreon page.

If you are as disgusted with the current situation as I am, I encourage

you to give as little as $3 to any number of anti-racism pro-civil rights organizations that are doing everything in their power to fight entrenched

and systemic racism in the US.

As Vice President Joe Biden said the other day, quote, we've got to make real the promise of America, which we've never fully grasped,

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