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[music]

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-I’ve always been
interested in trying

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to define what a piece
of music really is.

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Sometimes I think
of it as a document.

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A document that is visual,
oral, you hear it,

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and spatial all at the same time.

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Also,
I’m interested in looking at why

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a document was created
in the first place

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and why it affects
and animates people

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so much in different
places and times.

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In the very first Bach suite,
I’ve asked my friend,

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Julie Moir Messervy, to look at this
music very closely and to see how

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it could possibly be
turned into a music garden.

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[music]

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-When I first got asked to do this
assignment, it was a little awesome.

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To think of trying
to make a garden from

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a piece of music was a little scary.

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Although I had thought
about that idea before.

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-I have to say that with
this first suite of Bach,

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I’ve always had nature in mind,
not a human thing.

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It’s always nature,
light, and water, and all of that.

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-Water and light.
A garden in the end is really taking

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what’s in nature and
taking its essence,

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and making it readable and simple.

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It all connects if
the design process.

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It doesn’t finish
until you’ve tweaked

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the last maple leaf off of the maple
tree, it falls onto the ground.

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You know that? That’s the idea.

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-You say it always, in fact, that a
garden continues to grow with you.

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-Exactly, and change just as you do.

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-I love that.

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I think a really good piece of
music develops a life of its own,

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that somehow it’s a living thing,

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and that you actually
have to go with it.

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You have to change with it.
You have to nurture it a lot.

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-Touching it at some moment in time.
Yes.

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-I’d like to think it’s a good fit.

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[music]

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-The prelude was perhaps the
easiest movement of the first suite.

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When I start to think of
it three-dimensionally

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sort of what landscape
features it reminded me of,

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it was really a seascape,
riverscape,

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a wave-like motion
that carved out space.

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[music]

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Yo-Yo, here’s our site.
It’s in the heart of Boston.

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We’ve got the federal building,
the Kennedy Building it’s called,

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city hall plaza.
The city hall over to our right.

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This is the right
place for this garden.

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The reason is because
people need it here.

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The space needs it here.
Look at this desert.

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Look at this arctic desert.

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It’s sad and desolate in
every bad sense of the word.

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-To get all of the various people,
the government, the city government,

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the federal government,
the MBTA together,

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I don’t think it’s going to happen,
so I think we should just give up.

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-[laughs] Yo-Yo,
don’t leave me here.

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-Having said that, Bach was maybe
one of the great composers who wrote

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for people without thinking about
who they were, whatever-- A garden,

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the idea of a secular place that
has a sacred element to it that

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in fact wants to bring out the very
best in all of us, that’s worth

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just trying to do impossible
things to make something happen.

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-Maybe not. I can start with
the spacing of the hedge,

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and then they can intensify
as they make the swirl.

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Chuck, you know it also has something
to do with the spacing of the hedge?

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-Sure.

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-That the ballardscan
relate in spacing.

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-We started out with
a quarter of an acre.

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We went to two acres, and now
we’re making it three-and-a-half.

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-Three acres. I’m pretty sure
it’s going to be the whole plaza.

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Anyway, I don’t think this works.
You see this?

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I’m not sure we need it.

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We have to look at
the bigger planning.

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Yo-Yo, here’s the plan.

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Basically,
you come from that island into

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the prelude through
the undulating walls.

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You look through the Allemande Forest
in here, which is a forest of big,

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tall conifer trees, probably pines,
and we’ll see, cedars,

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other sorts of trees. We’re
still working what that might be.

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You come out to here and
you’re in the Courante which

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is a very vibrant flowery

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churning spiraling movement,

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and there’s a huge
flower around the vent.

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I hope we can figure out a way
to really make that happen.

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Here, we’ve taken a very
difficult place, the vent,

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and tried to make it into a flower,

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a huge flower that
has flowers put into

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it as a changing display
through the seasons.

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Then, also, I hope it’ll look
beautiful as a winter snow

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flower when the snow falls
as it inevitably will.

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-Ever since I’ve started
playing the suite by Bach,

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nature has somehow figured into it,

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nature imagery,
light, shadows, water.

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If you’re interested at
all in terms of figuring

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out why this piece of
music with the garden,

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these are two different mediums,
how do they mix?

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I would say that if we do believe
that physical space and music can

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in fact create an ethos or some way
of asking people to be civilized,

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civic-minded,
I think that’s another thought,

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and then why not have
beautiful things for everybody?

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-Questions? Thoughts?

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-When do we start?

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-Tomorrow.
We’re waiting for you, Mayor.

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-I’ll give Mr. [?] a blank piece
of paper with my signature on it.

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-I love it. [laughter]

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-I didn’t know [?] leadership
we’re going to make it happen.

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-So cherish it.

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-Thank you for working with us.
Thank you for this vision.

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-Thank you.

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[applause]

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-The Boston Globe’s here. We’ll
just tell them this is good news.

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It might get in the paper.
[laughter]

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-To get things going, there’s a
real hunch as far as like-I think

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Bach meant it that way
when he wrote this music.

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I have to find out what the
heart of the community is.

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I think that’s, for me,
there’s nothing more important.

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-Boston’s mayor thinks a music
garden is a fabulous idea.

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-It brings vitality.

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There’s this green space
along the city hall plaza.

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It gives us the [?] city hall plaza.

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-The officials are now
looking for federal

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and private funding for
Yo-Yo Ma’s music garden.

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If they get it,
planning could begin next spring.

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-It makes a lot of sense.
Music comes out of green space.

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You walk through the tulips and the
rhododendrons, and other things,

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music comes out of that.

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Sound and music which
is you walk through,

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then you hear music in your
mind and your vision music.

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With the music garden,
we’ll see both,

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real music and music of
flowers in green space.

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[music]

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[applause]

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-My goal is to privatize
city hall plaza.

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We intend to put
some income-producing

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real estate on city hall plaza.

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With the income from
that real estate,

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we intend to improve the plaza and
make it user friendly to the public,

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and I think the music garden
can be a wonderful attraction.

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[music]

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-An Allemande, an ancient
German dance which immediately

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brings images from the forest,

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of lines of people winding there way
underneath especially pine trees,

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I guess and spruce.

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[music]

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-It’s obviously a flow in music
that goes from one place to another.

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The suites, it goes from slower to
faster so the whole direction is up.

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-Well, don’t forget we’ve
got a 25 story building that

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we have to do something
at the ground plain,

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at the pedestrian level
to bring down to earth.

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-Absolutely.

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-Then one way is the forest
but another way is to get

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these vertical elements that
move and shine and reflects.

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-I think that’s wonderful but
I know you suggested buskers.

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There are other things we can
think of that might just suggest

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that-we may want to just
dilly-dally for a little bit.

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-We need activity then.
That’s right dilly-dally along.

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-This curvilinear journey.

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-The curvilinear journey, I know.
You know, the problem with curves--

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-I love that word.

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-Curvilinear.

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The problem with curvilinear
is they cost a lot of money.

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-Curvilinear. Curvilinear journey.
[chuckles] Is that--

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-Yes, [?] will tell you that.

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-Straight is easier?

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-Straight is cheap. Curves are hard.

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I think there should be
these rounded swirls.

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Even though it’s a forest,
there it’s kind of granite.

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If this pen is working
I can show you.

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This pen isn’t working but I can get

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them to swirl up into a
little form here, spin down.

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-Great idea.

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[background noise]

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-Some places are in
fact graffiti free.

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-This kind of thing hasn’t
been used in Boston.

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-No.

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-No.

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-We’re so traditional.

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-Not very many things have
been used in Boston. [chuckles]

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-Lots of bricks.

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-Lots of bricks have
been used in Boston.

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-I’m saying that-- I’m thinking
that if we have a music

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garden with enough components
where people actually think,

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\"This is a special place to go to,\"
that they actually--

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-They will be more reverent.

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-Naturally take care of it.

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-Reverence.

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-Reverence maybe too-

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-Strong?

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-Strong.

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-Too strong but respect.

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-Yes.

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-It’s a pretty exciting
process to translate

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what you’re hearing
into something physical.

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-Especially with Yo-Yo
helping to translate

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the history of all of
the music it’s begun

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a process of being
able to put a material

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to sound which is what
this is all about.

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-We have a another responsibility
to design and develop a core

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element which disallows the threat

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of a terrorist type action here.

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That is a significant
responsibility.

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-One of the things they love
most about the garden thing,

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from the Federal Government
point of view is that

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it becomes a perimeter security
that undulates, it’s beautiful.

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-Last April when
Oklahoma City occurred,

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we’re suddenly on a whole
set of security concerns that

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we needed to incorporate into
the perimeter of our building.

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The music garden, let’s us do that
without just dropping concrete blocks

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in front of the building and
doing something really ugly.

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It’s a great project from
our perspective in many ways.

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[background noise]

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-We’ve we started in
a manner of speaking

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and we’re doing our
testing right now

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to understand what’s
below the surface which

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we need to do in order
to firm up our estimates.

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-That would be this point
here on the Sarabande.

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Then after we get
that hole analyzed,

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let’s take the square out over here.

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Then we’ll move over
to the Courante and see

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if we can get two
test holes over there,

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and then by Allemande
we’ll get to over there.

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-Well I think we’ve
got a tough road ahead

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of us to get this all
in place by August 15.

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Why all this is real
important to us is

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because if we don’t
start August 15th,

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all the activities get backed
up and we start pushing

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the project into winter and that
becomes a costly issue for us.

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-The trees in here are limbed up so

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that you can see through,
always safe.

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The next movement that you
come to is a big change.

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The last that I think you’ve seen
this sort of flower reiteration.

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It wasn’t quite clear in our minds.
We also had to keep at that time,

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we thought that the
conical vent structure that

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we’ve always hated but
felt we had to cover up.

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Then Norman started looking
at this feasibility,

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it turns out we don’t need to
keep that structure after all.

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What we decided to
do was make a maze.

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It’s not very hard maze.

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I think you could figure
how to get through.

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-Well, this is not a typical
because in developing

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real estate which has been our
business, we deal with professionals,

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be it architects, landscape
architects, or even artists at times.

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We have had that
particular experience.

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It can present problems because out
of different view with the world

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sometimes and do not understand

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the realities and that’s
we have to work on,

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but we’ve been through it before.

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-The dawn is breaking.

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-We have 8-

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-AM is not bad,
early morning coffee time.

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-9, 10.

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[music]

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[background noise]

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-This must be one
of the only projects

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in the history of the world
that has its deadline.

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A film that needs to be creative.

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Usually, a film comes and looks at-

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-A finished product or the process.

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--a finished product
or documents a process,

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but we’re documenting a
process that’s finished because

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a film needs to be finished June
15th to thereabouts of 1997.

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That’s a problem and an opportunity.

00:23:12.300 --> 00:23:15.073
-Well, that’s a problem
because we’re talking

00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:19.680
about almost $4.5 million project.

00:23:20.634 --> 00:23:25.041
A project of that scale, that’s
probably a normal three-year process.

00:23:28.429 --> 00:23:29.353
[music]

00:23:29.520 --> 00:23:33.030
-The Courante is,
again, a more accessible movement.

00:23:34.050 --> 00:23:38.970
I keep thinking of spiraling inward,
spiraling outward,

00:23:39.630 --> 00:23:41.205
twisting and turning.

00:23:41.889 --> 00:23:44.111
[background conversation]

00:23:44.402 --> 00:23:47.983
-Whatever it is, the numbers
of people that are going to see

00:23:48.150 --> 00:23:51.553
that and see it as a
group of dead trees.

00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:52.873
\"Look at that.
They all died overnight.

00:23:53.040 --> 00:23:54.334
I wonder what happened.\"

00:23:54.501 --> 00:23:55.501
-God.

00:23:55.812 --> 00:23:57.463
-No one needs that kind of impress.

00:23:57.630 --> 00:24:01.710
-All right, politically unacceptable.
Let’s move along to the ginkgo.

00:24:02.683 --> 00:24:07.536
-They sell at Princeton Nursery,
this Princeton Sentry variety.

00:24:07.703 --> 00:24:09.776
They have that in massive quantity.

00:24:09.943 --> 00:24:10.545
-They do?

00:24:10.712 --> 00:24:13.522
-They’ve got fields of [?].
They got six-inch trees.

00:24:13.689 --> 00:24:13.975
-Gingko.

00:24:14.142 --> 00:24:14.688
-Gingko Biloba.

00:24:14.855 --> 00:24:16.140
-Talk about some ancient trees.

00:24:16.307 --> 00:24:17.562
-Talk about an ancient tree.

00:24:17.729 --> 00:24:18.611
-That’s a [?].

00:24:18.778 --> 00:24:19.778
-Yes, yes.

00:24:20.742 --> 00:24:22.728
-That’s perfect for growth planting.

00:24:22.895 --> 00:24:26.160
It’s predisposed and
they grow that tree well.

00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:29.884
-Even though these are young
leaves that are only half-formed,

00:24:30.051 --> 00:24:32.837
they have a wonderful
cuteness layer to them.

00:24:33.004 --> 00:24:36.557
They’re already well protected from
anything that would happen to them.

00:24:36.724 --> 00:24:37.279
Exactly.

00:24:37.446 --> 00:24:38.698
-Yet they have a form.

00:24:38.865 --> 00:24:39.709
It’s perfect for our garden.

00:24:39.876 --> 00:24:40.281
-Just so wonderful.

00:24:40.448 --> 00:24:41.461
-Look at that, the way they tremble.

00:24:41.628 --> 00:24:42.485
-Yes, exactly.

00:24:42.652 --> 00:24:43.539
-It could be beautiful in the wind.

00:24:43.706 --> 00:24:44.407
-Exactly.

00:24:44.574 --> 00:24:46.040
-Would it work?
Would it look good enough for us?

00:24:46.207 --> 00:24:50.820
-I think it would look absolutely
dynamite because of the site.

00:24:51.330 --> 00:24:54.257
The site is so star. The city hall--

00:24:54.424 --> 00:24:56.024
-The trees would be star too.

00:24:56.191 --> 00:24:57.227
-Yes, exactly.

00:24:57.394 --> 00:24:58.387
-They’d be sculptural.

00:24:58.554 --> 00:24:59.222
-Yes, and so you’d be--

00:24:59.389 --> 00:25:00.498
-They’re so sculptural.

00:25:00.665 --> 00:25:04.439
-Yes, yes. [laughter]

00:25:04.770 --> 00:25:07.853
-Where do you zero in
to be able to ferret

00:25:08.020 --> 00:25:10.088
out that amount of money
in that short time?

00:25:10.255 --> 00:25:12.433
-Well, I think it’s beyond enough.

00:25:12.600 --> 00:25:15.373
Making sure that all of your
different constituency groups within

00:25:15.540 --> 00:25:21.600
the corporate world are being
massaged and given the opportunity.

00:25:21.990 --> 00:25:24.133
For example, I think in the
naming opportunities that

00:25:24.300 --> 00:25:25.963
we’re going to be
proposing for people,

00:25:26.130 --> 00:25:30.283
that you can actually get
your name on a flower bed,

00:25:30.450 --> 00:25:32.113
get your name on one
of the ginkgo trees,

00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:33.763
get your name on
one of the preludes.

00:25:33.930 --> 00:25:35.833
-Do you mean all 60 ginkgos
are going to be named?

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.243
-If we have 60 people who want
to buy 60 ginkgos, goodness,

00:25:40.410 --> 00:25:41.730
we’re going to give it to them so.

00:25:41.897 --> 00:25:44.076
-We’ve gotten to that
level of deep sale.

00:25:44.243 --> 00:25:45.860
-Well,
I think for the entire music garden

00:25:46.027 --> 00:25:49.267
it’s a $2.5 million contribution
that we’re looking at.

00:25:49.830 --> 00:25:51.546
For that, we’re looking to have it

00:25:51.713 --> 00:25:54.210
actually be named on
behalf of someone.

00:25:55.020 --> 00:25:56.713
Fill in the blank music garden.

00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.793
That would be wonderful like the
fleet center or something like that.

00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.763
Then within each one of
the movements, for example,

00:26:03.930 --> 00:26:07.710
the Allemande forest is going to be,
I think, $50,000.

00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:11.550
The Sarabande performance
shell is $50,000.

00:26:11.730 --> 00:26:15.626
One of the flower beds is $25,000.
It’s going to happen.

00:26:15.853 --> 00:26:18.310
It’s going to happen.
It has to happen.

00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:23.413
-Well, I would say,
that when you based a garden

00:26:23.580 --> 00:26:27.343
on an intellectual
idea or a construct,

00:26:27.510 --> 00:26:30.463
an intellectual construct that
those gardens, in my experience,

00:26:30.630 --> 00:26:33.223
typically fail because they’re not

00:26:33.390 --> 00:26:36.600
in harmony with the
conditions that prevail.

00:26:37.050 --> 00:26:41.544
-One, two, three, four,
five, six, one, good. Three, five.

00:26:41.711 --> 00:26:42.532
-Oh, no.

00:26:42.699 --> 00:26:46.871
-Yes, six and one, two,
three, four, five, six, a second one,

00:26:48.579 --> 00:26:51.867
and a third, and sideways.

00:26:52.034 --> 00:26:57.763
Open and three, four, five, six,
open, and three, four driving back.

00:26:57.930 --> 00:27:00.133
Right,
and three, four, five, six, right.

00:27:00.300 --> 00:27:03.883
Everyone is capable of eating,
walking, running, and falling asleep.

00:27:04.050 --> 00:27:04.873
These are the things we do.

00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:07.693
What is it that takes
you beyond the animal?

00:27:07.860 --> 00:27:11.760
What is the artifice and the good
18th-century senses of the word?

00:27:12.074 --> 00:27:14.197
Six.
One, two, three, four, five, six.

00:27:14.364 --> 00:27:14.853
-Oh, no.

00:27:15.020 --> 00:27:15.859
-Three, four, five, six.

00:27:16.026 --> 00:27:17.227
-One, two, three.

00:27:17.394 --> 00:27:18.430
-One, two, three.

00:27:18.597 --> 00:27:19.348
-One, two, three, right, sink.

00:27:19.515 --> 00:27:20.116
-Oh, no.

00:27:20.283 --> 00:27:20.656
-Left, right, left, please.

00:27:20.823 --> 00:27:23.323
-I can’t do the sink
and then keep going.

00:27:25.947 --> 00:27:27.853
It’s one way to get
into the garden is

00:27:28.020 --> 00:27:30.420
to take these patterns
and to use them.

00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.983
This dance is not only
a horizontal pattern,

00:27:33.150 --> 00:27:34.710
it has a verticality too as well.

00:27:34.877 --> 00:27:37.061
-Absolutely. We tend to
think of bending the knees.

00:27:37.228 --> 00:27:39.848
They talk about sinking and rising.

00:27:41.326 --> 00:27:48.326
[music]

00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.553
-I think the film was really
what set the deadline.

00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.203
We were told that there was a hard

00:30:08.370 --> 00:30:10.603
and fast date by which
it had to be done.

00:30:10.770 --> 00:30:14.593
-I think artists have to take
a certain viewpoint of things,

00:30:14.760 --> 00:30:17.653
and I certainly respect what they do,
but we had to be practical,

00:30:17.820 --> 00:30:24.103
and we feel that the project was
very important to the city of Boston.

00:30:24.270 --> 00:30:25.423
We would’ve liked to
have seen it done,

00:30:25.590 --> 00:30:28.710
but it just became too
complex over a period of time.

00:30:35.298 --> 00:30:37.740
-Sarabande is very, very different,

00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.653
it’s probably like a
glade in the forest that

00:30:41.820 --> 00:30:44.730
you come upon with bits
of light coming through.

00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:50.310
I put a lot of myself
into that whole thing,

00:30:50.820 --> 00:30:53.623
but I felt very personally connected

00:30:53.790 --> 00:30:55.813
to so many of the
people we worked with,

00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:58.560
and know the loss
that they’re feeling,

00:30:59.460 --> 00:31:02.199
and know the loss that the
general public’s feeling.

00:31:02.366 --> 00:31:04.016
-It is very sad when--

00:31:04.573 --> 00:31:07.513
Although I have to say
that we started this whole

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.400
project thinking that it would
be practically impossible to do,

00:31:12.810 --> 00:31:15.643
in the same way that
I think of the suites

00:31:15.810 --> 00:31:19.993
as being slightly impossible music,
because it’s designed in such a way.

00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:22.543
It’s like-- I don’t know.

00:31:22.710 --> 00:31:26.700
By illusion, you create polyphony
with a single-line instrument.

00:31:26.970 --> 00:31:29.220
While we were trying to do something

00:31:31.830 --> 00:31:32.972
next to impossible.

00:31:33.139 --> 00:31:35.419
-I wanted to get that done.
I wanted to see what it looked like.

00:31:35.586 --> 00:31:37.524
I wanted to take my kids there.

00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.310
I wanted to keep going
with our programming ideas.

00:31:40.477 --> 00:31:42.977
-I think once an idea
like this gets out,

00:31:45.210 --> 00:31:49.227
things happen that actually
that we just can’t predict.

00:31:49.394 --> 00:31:56.394
[music]

00:32:01.568 --> 00:32:03.733
-We were open, honest, giving,

00:32:03.900 --> 00:32:07.033
we did everything we were
asked to do in a timely way,

00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:11.160
in an enthusiastic way. I smiled
far too much through this process.

00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:17.186
On the other side, you get people
who are not trusting people.

00:32:17.629 --> 00:32:18.633
-Well, they’re business people.

00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:19.762
-They’re business people.

00:32:19.929 --> 00:32:24.570
They clearly didn’t understand
our openness about this.

00:32:24.930 --> 00:32:27.118
They were probably surprised by it.

00:32:27.450 --> 00:32:31.063
You’ve got these two worldviews
that just couldn’t come together,

00:32:31.230 --> 00:32:33.291
and yet,
in the end, the garden was supposed

00:32:33.458 --> 00:32:35.203
to be the thing that
we did together,

00:32:35.370 --> 00:32:37.050
that we created together.

00:32:37.323 --> 00:32:39.853
-We couldn’t make it happen,
because financially,

00:32:40.020 --> 00:32:42.895
we couldn’t get people
to step up to the plate.

00:32:43.290 --> 00:32:45.793
I don’t understand
enough about fundraising,

00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:49.160
I don’t understand about the
strategy that was developed

00:32:49.327 --> 00:32:53.486
to really understand and know
why it didn’t work, but--

00:32:54.219 --> 00:32:55.025
-It didn’t work.

00:32:55.192 --> 00:32:58.252
-It didn’t work,
because the money never came to be.

00:32:59.280 --> 00:33:00.883
-We were all doing it
for the same reason,

00:33:01.050 --> 00:33:03.343
which was to make something
here that’s better

00:33:03.510 --> 00:33:06.073
and more beautiful than
what was here before.

00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:07.813
I was wrong, it couldn’t happen.

00:33:07.980 --> 00:33:10.293
We thought we could
perform a miracle.

00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:16.213
All artists think that.
In the end, we couldn’t.

00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:19.813
That’s incredibly disappointing.
It’s a big loss.

00:33:19.980 --> 00:33:23.173
I was very, very sad for the first
three weeks after it happened.

00:33:23.340 --> 00:33:26.310
Now I’m probably
edging more on bitter.

00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:30.553
If we can do a garden somewhere
and start to realize the dream,

00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.970
I’ll come back to my old self again.

00:33:34.093 --> 00:33:36.313
-It seems that there’s
always some tension

00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.260
between the imagination
and concrete reality.

00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:44.070
Will power alone cannot
turn one into the other.

00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:52.080
It seems that people, the time,
and place can be even more important.

00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.305
As it turned out,
we were really fortunate

00:33:56.540 --> 00:33:59.443
in finding out that
the City of Toronto was

00:33:59.610 --> 00:34:03.750
interested in developing a space
that might turn into a music garden.

00:34:12.103 --> 00:34:13.667
-That’s good for us.

00:34:13.834 --> 00:34:15.228
-Then the other thing, I suppose--

00:34:15.395 --> 00:34:16.360
-That it exists already.

00:34:16.527 --> 00:34:17.734
-I don’t know if I
need to point this out,

00:34:17.901 --> 00:34:20.583
but this is the access to
the Toronto Island Airport.

00:34:20.750 --> 00:34:24.365
The Toronto Island Airport ferry,
this is its little ferry base.

00:34:24.532 --> 00:34:25.467
-It’s adorable.

00:34:25.634 --> 00:34:28.091
-It’s very well connected
internationally.

00:34:28.258 --> 00:34:31.738
-It is a very unique part of
Toronto’s industrial heritage.

00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.693
-You’re also very sensitive
to that here, it seems.

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:37.235
Everything I’ve heard
is environmental,

00:34:38.001 --> 00:34:39.990
industrial, sensitivity.

00:34:40.310 --> 00:34:42.998
-This is the westerly
extension of the park.

00:34:43.441 --> 00:34:46.783
It will take in the existing road,
which will be removed,

00:34:46.950 --> 00:34:49.850
and the road will be
relocated to this area here.

00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:52.903
The road will be
realigned from that point

00:34:53.370 --> 00:34:58.020
right over to where the
pavilion sign is, down there.

00:34:58.732 --> 00:34:59.395
It’ll be a big-

00:34:59.562 --> 00:34:59.883
-Pretty straight.

00:35:00.050 --> 00:35:00.515
--arc.

00:35:00.682 --> 00:35:01.153
-An arc.

00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:03.360
-It’ll be curving this way.

00:35:03.990 --> 00:35:06.793
This area from the
developed part of the park

00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.237
to the new park boundary
is two full acres.

00:35:10.565 --> 00:35:11.800
-Is it?

00:35:14.689 --> 00:35:17.062
-Any other characteristic
spots that we want to mention?

00:35:17.229 --> 00:35:19.307
-Well,
the survey is being prepared now.

00:35:19.474 --> 00:35:20.773
There’s no easement [crosstalk]

00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:23.953
-Both Yo-Yo and I are reeling
at the moment from having

00:35:24.120 --> 00:35:27.120
been involved in a very
intense process for a year.

00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:28.573
It’s going to take me a little while

00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:32.340
to move my head to the
possibilities here,

00:35:32.670 --> 00:35:34.663
that at the moment is a
little hard to imagine

00:35:34.830 --> 00:35:37.086
just because all I
see are cement mixers,

00:35:37.253 --> 00:35:41.950
cranes, an elevated highway,
train whistles, -

00:35:42.389 --> 00:35:43.637
-This is urban music.

00:35:43.804 --> 00:35:45.493
--and a wasteland feeling.

00:35:45.660 --> 00:35:47.263
You have to be
imaginative about this,

00:35:47.430 --> 00:35:51.038
and we’re supposed to be
doing that in our lives here.

00:36:04.028 --> 00:36:05.124
-We should do a little jig.

00:36:05.291 --> 00:36:06.277
-Yes, [?]

00:36:06.444 --> 00:36:08.246
-Yo-Yo, this is Mayor Barbara Hall.

00:36:08.413 --> 00:36:14.150
-So excited to meet you.
I hear you play the violin, right?

00:36:14.367 --> 00:36:15.792
Among other things.

00:36:16.146 --> 00:36:16.572
-Really?

00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:18.450
-Is that true? [laughter]

00:36:18.617 --> 00:36:22.971
Wait a minute,
I’ve been misinformed.

00:36:23.231 --> 00:36:26.713
I’ve been playing these Bach
suites since I was four years old.

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.870
For as long as I remember,
playing these suites,

00:36:31.110 --> 00:36:33.673
and playing the first
suite in particular,

00:36:34.577 --> 00:36:36.656
I’ve always related to nature.

00:36:36.981 --> 00:36:38.833
-I think the heart of the garden,

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:40.753
the contemplative
center of the garden,

00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:46.112
perhaps the smallest space of
the garden, the Sarabande, and--

00:36:47.207 --> 00:36:49.726
Well, take it.

00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:55.204
[music]

00:36:56.092 --> 00:37:00.960
-We thought, \"Well, maybe this
would be something that we could do,

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:04.003
but where to put it and set up?\"

00:37:04.170 --> 00:37:05.953
We could go,
of course, into nature and do it,

00:37:06.120 --> 00:37:11.473
but we actually thought that the best
place for such a place in our very

00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:16.543
contemporary world is in a place
where people might need it the most.

00:37:17.477 --> 00:37:20.461
-A project like this is good

00:37:20.628 --> 00:37:25.033
for us as a corporation as well,

00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:28.740
because it’s something that
does generate excitement,

00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:32.983
and it easily brings together
people from different

00:37:33.150 --> 00:37:38.440
places who get motivated
to make it happen.

00:37:39.709 --> 00:37:43.500
-If this garden, if this community
provides this kind of spirit,

00:37:44.610 --> 00:37:48.900
it becomes a magnet of some
sort for things to happen.

00:37:50.258 --> 00:37:52.891
-Did you see the painting?

00:37:53.783 --> 00:37:55.016
-I’ve been looking at it.

00:37:55.183 --> 00:37:57.586
-This, Toronto in about

00:37:57.964 --> 00:38:03.870
1900, but in fact,
it’s been filled in quite a bit.

00:38:04.526 --> 00:38:06.382
You can see that it’s
much farther than--

00:38:06.549 --> 00:38:07.504
-Moved a long way.

00:38:07.671 --> 00:38:08.719
-It’s unbelievable.

00:38:08.886 --> 00:38:10.075
-The garden would be-

00:38:10.242 --> 00:38:11.326
-Somewhere out in the water.

00:38:11.493 --> 00:38:12.983
--somewhere out in
the water over there.

00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:14.354
-That’s amazing.

00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:21.900
[music]

00:41:42.601 --> 00:41:44.640
-The image of the Minuet,

00:41:45.030 --> 00:41:50.400
is one of a formal garden that
has symmetrical sides to it.

00:41:53.430 --> 00:41:59.790
How wonderful to be on a beautiful
day, in the sun, in March.

00:42:02.423 --> 00:42:03.433
Terrific.

00:42:03.600 --> 00:42:07.393
The minuet area will have a
nice focal point, [chuckles]

00:42:07.560 --> 00:42:08.328
on the CN tower.

00:42:08.495 --> 00:42:10.572
-Indeed.

00:42:11.885 --> 00:42:16.633
-As we thought of it, the more
we came to realize that doing

00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:19.003
the foundation for
the garden this way,

00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:21.545
way the best way of
designing the park.

00:42:22.650 --> 00:42:25.003
We wouldn’t have thought of
it without them, definitely.

00:42:25.170 --> 00:42:27.983
We’ve worked together
over a series of months,

00:42:28.290 --> 00:42:32.850
with Julie in a volunteer
designer capacity,

00:42:33.150 --> 00:42:36.883
to understand what we would
need to build into the ground,

00:42:37.050 --> 00:42:41.083
in order to allow for the potential
of the music garden to be realized,

00:42:41.250 --> 00:42:45.540
and to work with her in terms of how
the site relates to the waterfront,

00:42:45.750 --> 00:42:47.983
and what we would
like to achieve here.

00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:50.503
We’ve spent a lot of time
talking about the concept.

00:42:50.670 --> 00:42:54.253
I think we have a very good shared
understanding at this point.

00:42:54.420 --> 00:42:56.863
-The next [?] would be
the Courante section.

00:42:57.030 --> 00:43:00.335
That we’re still seeing as the
whirling, butterflies. and waving-

00:43:00.502 --> 00:43:01.381
-Grasses.

00:43:01.548 --> 00:43:02.959
--prairie, waving grasses feeling.
-[chuckles]

00:43:03.126 --> 00:43:04.388
-I love that. I can’t wait to plant-

00:43:04.555 --> 00:43:05.953
-Yes, I know.
That would be great. [chuckles]

00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:10.200
--that. I’m so excited about that.
Now we just have to get the money.

00:43:11.182 --> 00:43:16.050
-My hope is that the excitement
of having Yo-Yo here,

00:43:17.010 --> 00:43:22.770
also being able to show in a
tangible way what can happen,

00:43:23.340 --> 00:43:25.590
will generate enough excitement that

00:43:26.010 --> 00:43:27.859
enough pocket-books
will be loosened.

00:43:28.026 --> 00:43:34.350
-It’s been a very open,
can-do, giving, possible place.

00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.793
They also,
by the way, I think you know this,

00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.073
they have a commitment
to the community.

00:43:39.240 --> 00:43:40.337
That they have to build something.

00:43:40.504 --> 00:43:41.263
-It’s a raccoon.

00:43:41.430 --> 00:43:41.816
-Yes.

00:43:41.983 --> 00:43:42.988
-Look.

00:43:43.155 --> 00:43:44.407
-No. It’s a fox.

00:43:44.700 --> 00:43:45.322
-No, it’s a raccoon. Is it a racoon?

00:43:45.489 --> 00:43:47.310
-No, it’s a raccoon.
That’s a big fat raccoon. [chuckles]

00:43:47.477 --> 00:43:49.113
-Big fat racoon, yes.

00:43:51.165 --> 00:43:55.125
Boston won’t even be mentioned,
and I think that’s all to the good.

00:43:55.508 --> 00:43:57.703
-Yes. I think it’s just
looking at the opportunity.

00:43:57.870 --> 00:43:59.503
The fact that we
have the opportunity,

00:43:59.670 --> 00:44:02.503
because it fell through is a plus,

00:44:02.670 --> 00:44:05.413
but it’s not really
a factor in whether

00:44:05.580 --> 00:44:07.643
one decides to support it or not.

00:44:07.830 --> 00:44:10.033
Obviously, if it hadn’t
fallen through in Boston,

00:44:10.200 --> 00:44:12.263
we wouldn’t even have the chance.

00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.153
It’s a potential-- Some of the
corporate sponsors we would go

00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.800
after would be people that may
have some time with gardens.

00:44:20.297 --> 00:44:21.604
[chuckles]

00:44:21.938 --> 00:44:25.483
No. Look, I heard the [?] grow,
but I don’t think decisions grow as

00:44:25.650 --> 00:44:27.703
rapidly as they would
have to in this case.

00:44:27.870 --> 00:44:30.930
The whole project needs to
be completed by the fall.

00:44:31.727 --> 00:44:35.616
[laughs]

00:44:39.554 --> 00:44:43.800
The difficulty there is with
the smoking legislation,

00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:48.640
that might be difficult
to identify a donor. Yes.

00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:53.580
-Our idea in this plan was to
get you up to the top of a hill,

00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.373
because it seems to me we’ve got
to come back and scour it out.

00:44:57.540 --> 00:45:01.183
I need people who experience what
an Allemande might feel like.

00:45:01.350 --> 00:45:02.550
It’s too simple.

00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.783
The Minuet is all about interlocking,
but never touching.

00:45:07.950 --> 00:45:09.703
Somehow, that’s my problem.

00:45:09.870 --> 00:45:13.920
I got to figure out how to do that
where they’ll be able to do that.

00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:16.973
I want them to come back
around on themselves.

00:45:20.910 --> 00:45:23.430
That idea has to go, clearly.

00:45:24.540 --> 00:45:31.022
But the original idea was a forest,
a perfect grove.

00:45:32.502 --> 00:45:33.624
[music]

00:45:33.791 --> 00:45:34.306
-Oh, my word.

00:45:34.473 --> 00:45:35.858
-This is our site.
We’re on our site right now.

00:45:36.025 --> 00:45:36.737
-Yes.

00:45:36.904 --> 00:45:39.641
[music]

00:45:39.808 --> 00:45:40.664
-Isn’t that amazing?

00:45:40.831 --> 00:45:43.921
-Fast work.
What are they doing with the silos?

00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:45.485
-I don’t think a
decision’s been made,

00:45:45.652 --> 00:45:49.439
but half the proposals [?] more
or less an art-music center.

00:45:49.767 --> 00:45:52.267
There’s another one
that has a mausoleum.

00:45:54.093 --> 00:45:56.282
They’re quite different.Yes.
[laughter]

00:45:56.449 --> 00:45:57.545
-Are you serious?

00:45:57.712 --> 00:45:58.293
-Yes.

00:45:58.460 --> 00:45:59.607
-For what?

00:46:00.392 --> 00:46:01.324
-Cremated remains?

00:46:01.491 --> 00:46:03.896
-I don’t know if there’s been any

00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.344
denomination,
but it was part of the proposal.

00:46:07.658 --> 00:46:08.319
-Really?

00:46:08.486 --> 00:46:09.486
-Yes.

00:46:11.179 --> 00:46:11.990
-This road is-

00:46:12.157 --> 00:46:12.893
-This road’s gone.

00:46:13.060 --> 00:46:13.581
--gone.

00:46:13.748 --> 00:46:14.777
-It’s kind of hard to visualize.

00:46:14.944 --> 00:46:17.658
-Yes.
Up until where? All of the road.

00:46:17.987 --> 00:46:18.883
-The whole road’s gone.

00:46:19.050 --> 00:46:20.664
-All that road is gone.

00:46:20.831 --> 00:46:24.870
-The walkway is essentially where
we got it, this trail thing,

00:46:25.350 --> 00:46:27.441
and then this whole
old park is gone, -

00:46:27.608 --> 00:46:28.405
-That old park is gone.

00:46:28.572 --> 00:46:30.073
--and becomes a higher hill.

00:46:30.240 --> 00:46:33.313
Moving through Allemande forest
in here, we’re down of course,

00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:34.903
at this point in the Allemande.

00:46:35.070 --> 00:46:37.003
We start to move up
to a high point where-

00:46:37.170 --> 00:46:37.886
-The Courante is going
to be over there.

00:46:38.053 --> 00:46:38.773
--the Courante will be.
That’s right.

00:46:38.940 --> 00:46:40.814
Then we go down,
and then we go back up again.

00:46:40.981 --> 00:46:41.471
-Right.

00:46:41.638 --> 00:46:42.779
[background noise]

00:46:42.946 --> 00:46:44.004
-I can support it, except you’re not

00:46:44.171 --> 00:46:45.952
going to ask me to cut the grass,
are you?

00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:46.763
[laughter]

00:46:46.930 --> 00:46:49.229
-I’ll cut the grass if
you’ll support it. [laughter]

00:46:49.396 --> 00:46:51.896
-I’ll be up here with
my pruning machine.

00:46:52.248 --> 00:46:57.402
-I probably won’t see you until
next year, but maybe Tanglewood.

00:46:57.569 --> 00:47:02.670
-No, I think we’re going to hit off
on this boy to come out to Oakville.

00:47:03.658 --> 00:47:06.558
-All right, four second dissolve.
Hold on, there.

00:47:06.725 --> 00:47:08.113
Now, this is a music garden.

00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:11.010
If you could just
focus-- Can you tell him?

00:47:11.370 --> 00:47:13.631
You focus a little. Focus.

00:47:14.942 --> 00:47:15.952
Better? Okay.

00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:21.695
-This is a place to make music,
a concert hall without walls.

00:47:22.248 --> 00:47:27.561
[music]

00:47:27.884 --> 00:47:31.560
One of the things I think about
in playing this first suite,

00:47:32.220 --> 00:47:34.440
are elements that deal with nature.

00:47:34.890 --> 00:47:39.570
There seems to be an essence
for each wonderful work.

00:47:40.020 --> 00:47:44.010
It’s a seed that somehow
has a code within it,

00:47:44.340 --> 00:47:47.640
and you can take it from
one art form to another.

00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:49.663
You have to find the right climate,

00:47:49.830 --> 00:47:53.352
and the right soil for it
to grow in another way.

00:47:53.681 --> 00:48:00.681
[music]

00:50:54.166 --> 00:50:57.275
[applause]

00:50:57.717 --> 00:50:59.625
-The park will be built, I know.

00:50:59.792 --> 00:51:03.960
The kind of energy,
and passion, and spirit, the music,

00:51:04.616 --> 00:51:06.298
it will be built.

00:51:06.741 --> 00:51:10.341
-I happen to live here in this
area right across in the park,

00:51:10.530 --> 00:51:12.163
and I do have a minor concern,

00:51:12.330 --> 00:51:16.603
and that is if it’s going to be
a concert hall without walls,

00:51:16.770 --> 00:51:18.450
the way it was discussed.

00:51:18.750 --> 00:51:21.403
I would really be concerned of
how the hundreds of families that

00:51:21.570 --> 00:51:25.290
live here are going to get along
with the possibility of noise.

00:51:25.641 --> 00:51:26.873
-We’re just asking.

00:51:27.040 --> 00:51:28.813
-First of all,
you’re a fabulous musician.

00:51:28.980 --> 00:51:30.493
I knew that before I came.

00:51:30.660 --> 00:51:33.043
Secondly, if anything ever
happens to your cello,

00:51:33.210 --> 00:51:34.783
I’ll get you a hell
of a job as a sales

00:51:34.950 --> 00:51:37.200
marketing type in
the business world.

00:51:37.650 --> 00:51:39.643
Thirdly, I think we can
still work at all that.

00:51:39.810 --> 00:51:42.523
Come up to my balcony
and floor just up here,

00:51:42.690 --> 00:51:44.082
where you get a perfect look at it.

00:51:44.249 --> 00:51:45.292
-Great idea.

00:51:45.841 --> 00:51:47.498
-Maybe a gin and tonic.

00:51:47.665 --> 00:51:50.048
-What? [laughter]

00:51:51.064 --> 00:51:53.865
Listen. Now I’m offended. [laughter]

00:51:54.161 --> 00:51:55.766
[music]

00:51:56.033 --> 00:52:00.690
-The Gigue is in a way,
again, a fun, outward,

00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:06.433
bright open movement that has
to do with steps, and exiting,

00:52:06.600 --> 00:52:08.280
and leaving the piece.

00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:11.561
It looks like we’ve
got the Sarabande soul.

00:52:11.728 --> 00:52:12.477
-It does look like.

00:52:12.644 --> 00:52:13.027
-Courante.

00:52:13.194 --> 00:52:13.998
-Yes.

00:52:14.165 --> 00:52:17.320
-Then there’s one other person
that hasn’t told us which one,

00:52:17.487 --> 00:52:19.970
but maybe the Minuet will be
the next one we could ask for.

00:52:20.137 --> 00:52:21.856
-Sure. Absolutely.

00:52:23.579 --> 00:52:25.925
He wrote this music at
a time during the only

00:52:26.092 --> 00:52:31.370
time that he was employed by
a secular employer. Anyway--

00:52:31.537 --> 00:52:33.078
-From there, we go into the Minuet.

00:52:33.245 --> 00:52:37.320
There’s a little pergola, a little
place where a quartet could play.

00:52:37.650 --> 00:52:39.338
People could sit on a boat.

00:52:40.674 --> 00:52:42.354
-I have a collaborator.

00:52:44.584 --> 00:52:45.639
-Now, of course,

00:52:45.806 --> 00:52:48.463
you can actually intersect this
garden any other way you want.

00:52:48.630 --> 00:52:51.373
You don’t have to go this way,
but I think it works.

00:52:51.540 --> 00:52:55.063
It’s interesting that the movements
are so different from each other,

00:52:55.230 --> 00:52:56.919
and they evoke such
different feeling,

00:52:57.086 --> 00:52:59.274
that the garden should do that too.

00:53:01.911 --> 00:53:03.401
-What’s it going to
cost to finish it?

00:53:03.568 --> 00:53:07.693
-To finish it, between a million and
a million and a half to finish it.

00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:11.113
In the end, I would hope that
we are going to be between

00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.909
800 and a million dollars
within the next month.

00:53:14.076 --> 00:53:15.013
-That’s wonderful.

00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:19.903
-Which will be enough to
really get going on the [?]

00:53:20.070 --> 00:53:22.693
-The mayor and all of her fellow
elders, they don’t live down here.

00:53:22.860 --> 00:53:28.230
You will have peace and quiet, at
least from this side of the garden,

00:53:28.650 --> 00:53:31.333
if not from whatever boats
and ships that are out here.

00:53:31.500 --> 00:53:33.853
-You make a good point, there’s
a lot of background noise here,

00:53:34.020 --> 00:53:36.643
normal city background noise.
There’s a lot of it here.

00:53:36.810 --> 00:53:39.043
Until you stop and think about it,
you really don’t notice it,

00:53:39.210 --> 00:53:40.310
but there’s a lot of it.

00:53:40.477 --> 00:53:43.080
-I have a really great instrument.
One of the best instruments--

00:53:43.247 --> 00:53:44.139
-Do you want to go down and try it?

00:53:44.306 --> 00:53:44.935
-I would love to actually--

00:53:45.102 --> 00:53:46.513
-Do what you can.
Go ahead. Let’s go for it.

00:53:46.680 --> 00:53:50.702
-I would love to two minutes,
go play as loudly as I can,

00:53:50.869 --> 00:53:54.748
at the edge of that
garden right there.

00:53:54.915 --> 00:53:57.796
[music]

00:53:58.229 --> 00:53:59.579
-I can’t hear you.

00:54:00.202 --> 00:54:02.346
-We can hear the high notes.

00:54:02.778 --> 00:54:05.508
Play high, Yo-Yo. High.

00:54:07.059 --> 00:54:10.682
We can hear those.
We can’t hear the low notes.

00:54:15.889 --> 00:54:18.662
Yo-Yo, we are on a bumpy road.

00:54:18.986 --> 00:54:20.153
-It’s been bumpy a road.

00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:25.294
-It’s been bumpy the whole way,
but I’m getting to like bumpy roads.

00:54:25.461 --> 00:54:29.015
-Yes, it’s not so bad. I even like
the color. I like this mound here.

00:54:29.182 --> 00:54:30.059
-I like the mound too.

00:54:30.226 --> 00:54:31.283
-It’s in the wrong place.

00:54:31.450 --> 00:54:33.673
-Let’s put it in the right place.
In two weeks, three weeks.

00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:37.145
-Every time we come here, it’s in the
wrong place, and there’s only one.

00:54:37.312 --> 00:54:38.413
We need three.

00:54:38.580 --> 00:54:40.936
-They’re going to come. Trust me.

00:54:41.487 --> 00:54:42.197
-I trust you.

00:54:42.364 --> 00:54:46.444
-Trust me. They’re coming, and I
feel very optimistic about it today.

00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:47.534
-You do?

00:54:47.701 --> 00:54:48.540
-Do I seem optimistic?

00:54:48.707 --> 00:54:52.033
-Yes. I don’t think you
just seem optimistic,

00:54:52.428 --> 00:54:54.711
I think you really believe
it’s going to happen.

00:54:54.878 --> 00:54:56.878
-Something transformed recently.

00:54:57.746 --> 00:55:02.383
One of the things that transformed
was knowing that the film

00:55:02.550 --> 00:55:05.263
was going to finish without
necessarily having this done,

00:55:05.430 --> 00:55:07.005
and that it was okay.

00:55:07.530 --> 00:55:10.204
Secondly, knowing that the words

00:55:10.371 --> 00:55:12.960
‘Music Garden’ are
selling themselves.

00:55:14.535 --> 00:55:18.570
-You started sowing the seed.

00:55:18.902 --> 00:55:20.025
-With you.

00:55:20.192 --> 00:55:23.552
-There’s an idea out there
and that has tremendous value.

00:55:24.449 --> 00:55:28.747
There’s the process part, which
has been unbelievably enjoyable.

00:55:29.769 --> 00:55:30.677
-Rich.

00:55:30.844 --> 00:55:34.453
-We’re walking here.
We’ve seen gorgeous places.

00:55:34.620 --> 00:55:38.053
We’ve talked to fantastic
people who are just as committed

00:55:38.220 --> 00:55:41.850
in their part of the work
as we might be in ours,

00:55:42.090 --> 00:55:44.990
and we’re all connected through
wanting to make something happen.

00:55:45.157 --> 00:55:46.807
That’s been fantastic.

00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:52.830
The goal is it’s so thrilling
to think that actually,

00:55:53.190 --> 00:55:57.073
people might take this on
and use it and use it well,

00:55:57.506 --> 00:55:59.113
and enjoy it and make-- Hopefully,

00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:03.898
if it makes a tiny bit of difference
in an urban person’s life,

00:56:04.227 --> 00:56:05.071
it’s been worth it.

00:56:05.238 --> 00:56:05.986
-It’s been worth it.

00:56:06.153 --> 00:56:07.792
[applause]

00:56:08.120 --> 00:56:13.933
-I’m delighted to announce today
that pledges and guarantees

00:56:14.100 --> 00:56:16.033
of a Million dollars
have been achieved

00:56:16.200 --> 00:56:18.225
so that the garden can go ahead.

00:56:18.392 --> 00:56:19.215
-The triumvirate.

00:56:19.382 --> 00:56:21.794
[applause]

00:56:22.008 --> 00:56:26.383
-It’s the end of a journey,
because it’s the end of a film,

00:56:26.550 --> 00:56:29.640
but it’s also the
beginning of another one,

00:56:29.820 --> 00:56:33.383
which is the beginning of the
construction of this garden.

00:56:33.631 --> 00:56:40.456
I’m really very, very moved to be
here in front of you at this moment.

00:56:40.785 --> 00:56:44.162
It’s taken a long time,
but boy, it’s really worth it.

00:56:44.329 --> 00:56:51.329
[music]

00:57:20.923 --> 00:57:24.509
-In a way, it’s a time that brought

00:57:25.378 --> 00:57:32.332
a dream to a certain place
where it could become reality.

00:57:32.769 --> 00:57:39.769
[music]

00:58:36.914 --> 00:58:43.914
[water splashing]