b'Program NotescontinuedWe very much enjoyed the challenge of allocating a different movement to a different pair of soloists, which gave us the opportunity to showcase ten very talented Buskaid musicians. We acknowledge with gratitude the Zakhar Bron Chamber Orchestra, which made this string orchestral arrangement by Marco Crispo available to us. Bill WithersAint No Sunshine When Hes GoneThe 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses was the inspiration behind Bill Withers song Aint No Sunshine When Hes Gone. Withers was born in 1938 and grew up in West Virginia; at age 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. Nine years later, he started work in a factory which manufactured bathrooms, specifically toilet seats, for aircraft. It was during this period that this song was released, and it instantly became a huge hit, bringing Withers undreamt of fame. In recognition of his previous career, when the song achieved Gold, the record company presented him with a golden toilet seat. Aint No Sunshine was released as a single in 1971, and was subsequently used in numbers of movies. Bill Withers died of heart complications in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, and at that time his music brought comfort to many millions of people. I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror,Withers commented in a 2009 documentary about his life. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell Georgia On My MindGeorgia On My Mind was composed in New York in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, who wrote the lyrics. There has always been an element of mystery surrounding the title of the song, since it could have referred equally to Carmichaels sister Georgia, or the US state of the same name. In 1961, Gorrell referred to the ambiguity of the songs title in a letter to the Bremen Enquirer when he mentions a conversation with his mother who asked him a very penetrating question: What is Georgiaa girl or a state? Tantalizingly, he responds with another question: What do you think? However in the same year, princetonsymphony.org/ 18'