Translator: Rhonda Jacobs Reviewer: Peter van de Ven
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Thanks.
Thanks so much.
Part of the problem with being me -
you're supposed to groan; I don't have any problems, but -
is I never have a band.
I'm like that middle-aged bald guy sitting in the park
that none of the kids want to play with,
for good reasons.
(Laughter)
But I am lucky to have friends,
and I realize that I was billed as Tom Hagerman and friends,
which I thinks is great
because I've got friends and it's good to have friends.
But I always feel like that connotes one of two things:
either we're all going to go backstage and play Yahtzee and drink orange juice
after this set,
or we're going to smoke a ton of pot,
listen to some side project of The Grateful Dead and play banjos,
neither of which we're going to do.
(Laughter)
But I do have friends and it's nice to have them,
so I'd like to introduce them to you.
(Applause)
On cello is Evan Shelton.
Jeanie Schroder on tuba.
Summer Rhodes on viola.
Emily Maeda on piano,
and Takanori Sugishita on violin.
(Applause)
Thank you so much.
We're going to play a few more tunes and get out of here.
Thanks.
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(Cheers)
This next tune was originally written for-
we have a great ballet company here called Wonderbound,
and they commissioned a piece of music to be played with 13 string players,
and this is sort of a quartet version of the last movement,
and it's called "Lust."
The whole thing was based on the seven deadly sins,
which was sort of a choreographed ballet
about a wedding,
as if it were a Seinfeld episode written by Jean Paul Sartre.
(Laughter)
So, here is the last movement as a string quartet.
Thanks.
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(Applause) (Cheers)
Thank you all for coming,
and thank you TED people, volunteers, and everything for having us here.
It's been a real pleasure,
and thank you guys for doing this.
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