WOW, Joshua. What a marvelous performance, as usual. You were brilliant as you always are, with a little help from your 300-year-old friend the Stradivarius violin. Chausson's Poeme is a very lyrical piece. I like to think of it as an impression of a poem, which is pretty much what music is. Through the magic of streaming video, I felt I was actually in the audience, or better since the cameraman from www.medici.tv was able to get so up close and personal with you, your amazing fingering and the way you dance with your very special instrument. (Thank you to the grant underwriters who make this broadcast available through August of this year.) Ravel's Tzigane you played on New Year's Eve with the New York Phil, and so I'd seen a televised performance of it before. I believe you told one of the people who interviewed you that night that you are not a gypsy fiddler. Could have fooled me, Joshua. I don't know who could possibly play this piece better or with more feeling. The emotions are right there on the surface, Josh--in your rapt expression, in the movement of those fabulous fingers and in the way you sway back and forth and up and down with the rhythm of the piece. It's fabulous work, Mr. Bell. May you be at it for another forty productive years.