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hi everyone I'm Jim Ryan let me begin by
wishing all of you a Happy Mother's Day

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and welcome to episode 7 of digital Arts
on the Hill we are now almost two months

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into this and I hope you've been
enjoying it as much as I have the

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opening piece was a quartet that
featured among others our very own Dan Sender

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a member of our music faculty
coming up you're going to hear some

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firsts on the show a rock and roll
performance an organ piece and a

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dramatic reading by UVA alum and actor
Jason George of Grey's Anatomy and

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one quick note we'll be taking a break
next week because we're hosting a

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virtual celebration of the class of 2020
but I will tell you that that

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celebration will feature a couple of
musical pieces that you will not want to

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miss until then happy Mother's Day again
be well and I hope you enjoy the show

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Thank You Virginia Women's Chorus by the
way do you guys all know who rocks? Moms

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moms totally rock but for purposes of
this show do you guys know who rocks and

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rolls? Free Union next on Arts on the
Hill

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‘Freedom ain’t free’ Is that what you meant
When you said ‘nothin comes easy?’

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I’m a little lost, I thought that I 
I was out fightin for a little piece

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I was out workin all night
To one day have it all in the Free World

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Watch what you do, where you step, they’re listening
Watch where you go, who you meet, they’re judging

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If it’s all a dream, why am I not awake?
This reality is so hard to take

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In the free world, free world

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We’re living in the free world
Free world

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Elaborate illusion
Is that what you meant when you said

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‘Everyone’s included?’ Well
We’re a little lost I think that

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We gave up our values for a little piece
Now we’re out marching all day

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For a chance to get it back in the free world

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Watch what you do, where you step, they’re listening
Watch where you go, who you meet, they’re judging

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If it’s not a dream, why are we not awake?
This reality is so hard to take

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In the free world, free world
We’re living in the free world

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Free world

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It's a Free world

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Free world

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We’re living in the free world
Free world

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wahoowa what's up y'all it's Jason
George College class of 94 I was honored

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to be asked to be part of UVA Arts on
the Hill and in thinking about what I

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was going to perform or recite it
occurred to me that I play a doctor on

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TV I actually play doctor who became a
firefighter on Grey's Anatomy in station

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19 and I wanted to do something that
would honor the bravery of those people

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out in the streets who are taking care
of the rest of us but I also wanted to

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honor the fact that those people those
brave souls are well it's more than just

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the doctors and firefighters it's also
the the nurses the lab technicians the

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people who volunteer and come in and
help flip people who have COVID-19 if

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you know anything about the disease
that's a really essential part of the

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process for people who are very far gone
it's the grocery store workers

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it's the people who deliver our
groceries and deliver our food from

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restaurants it's well you know it's the
janitor who has to clean up after

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all of this and when you hear the story
I think you you'll understand why I

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chose it it's an article from the
Washingtonian from August of 1989 by

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Katie McCabe and eventually it was
turned into a movie of the same title as

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the article which is Like Something the
Lord Made: Vivien Thomas was paid a

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janitor's wage never went to college and
still became a legend in the field of

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heart surgery say his name and the
busiest heart surgeons in the world will

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stop and talk for an hour of course they
have time they'll say these men who count

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time in seconds who race against the
clock this is about Vivien Thomas for

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Vivien they'll make time Dr. Denton
Cooley has just come out of surgery and

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he has 47 minutes between operations no
you don't need an appointment his

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secretary is saying Dr. Cooley's right
here he wants to talk to you now Cooley

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suddenly is on the line from his Texas
Heart Institute in Houston in a slow

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Texas drawl he says he just loves being
bothered about Vivien

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and then in 47 minutes just about the
time it takes him to do a triple bypass he tells you

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about the man who taught
him that kind of speed no Vivien Thomas

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wasn't a doctor says Cooley he wasn't
even a college graduate he was just so

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smart and so skilled and so much his own man that it didn't matter

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and could he operate even if you've never seen
surgery before Cooley says

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you could do it because Vivien made
it look so simple Vivien Thomas and

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Denton Cooley both arrived at
Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital in

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1941 Cooley to begin working on his
medical degree Thomas to run the

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hospital surgical lab under Dr. Alfred
Blalock in 1941 the only other black

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employees at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
were janitors people stopped and stared

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at Thomas flying down corridors in his
white lab coat visitors eyes widened at

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the sight of a black man running the lab
but ultimately the fact that Thomas was

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black didn't matter either what mattered
was that Alfred Blalock

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and Vivien Thomas could do historic
things together that neither could do

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alone together they devised an operation
to save blue babies infants born with a

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heart defect that sends blood past their
lungs and Cooley was there as an intern

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for the first one he remembers the
tension in the operating room that

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November morning in 1944 as Dr. Blalock
rebuilt a little girl's tiny twisted

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heart he remembers how that baby went
from blue to pink the minute Dr.

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Blalock removed the clamps and her
arteries began to function and he

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remembers where Thomas stood on a little
step stool looking over Dr. Blalock's

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right shoulder answering questions
and coaching every move

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you see explains Cooley
it was Vivien who had worked it all out

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in the lab in the canine heart long
before Dr. Blalock did Eileen the first

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blue baby there were no cardiac experts
then that was the beginning a

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loudspeakers summons Cooley to surgery
he says he's on his way to do a tech

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case right now
that's tetralogy of Fallot the

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congenital heart defect that causes blue
baby syndrome

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they say that Cooley does them faster
than anyone that he can make a tetralogy

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operation look so simply doesn't even
look like surgery that's what I took

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from Vivien he says simplicity there
wasn't a false move not a wasted motion

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when he operated but in the medical
world of the 1940s that chose and trained

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men like Denton Cooley there wasn't
supposed to be a place for a black man

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with or without a degree still Vivien
Thomas made a place for himself he was a

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teacher to surgeons at a time when he
could not become one he was a cardiac

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pioneer 30 years before Hopkins opened
its doors to the first black surgical

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resident those are the facts that Cooley
has laid out as swiftly and efficiently

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as he operates and yet history argues
that the Vivien Thomas story could never

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have happened

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Thank You Jason a beautiful story and we
really appreciate you taking the time to

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participate and share your amazing
skills with us on digital Arts on the

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Hill as one of our wonderful UVA arts
alumni speaking of amazing and wonderful

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our next performer takes her artistry to
a bridge outside perhaps somewhere over

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the rainbow

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hello I'm Andie Weaver I am the senior
administrative assistant in the arts and

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sciences dean's office here at UVA I'm
going to be reading my poem burnweed

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which is about the COVID-19 pandemic
among other things if you don't know

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what burnweed is it's a plant that I
first saw after moving here to

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Charlottesville about a year ago
it has fluffy white seed pods that float

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on the wind and when it all starts to
bloom in the later summer months it's

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really beautiful and captivating to
watch so that's part of what inspired this poem

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Burnweed, April 2020: In spring
we can't breathe and the crown is heavy

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burnweed drifts from the tracks in CVS I
hunt germ-X for the homeless man so long

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when I emerge empty-handed he's already
left burnweed drifts from the tracks

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there's a house for sale room enough for
each dwarfs own bed and bath fairies

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guard the gardens where Snow White sings
to flowers or birds or bats the barn is

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flecked with lights tables far away burnweed drifts from the tracks do Royals

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dance here and in their towers vomit
wine into gold toilets die in glass

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caskets burnweed drifts from the tracks
in the forests of my home state mobile

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morgues devoured 419 each corpse could
own 1.2 acres of Snow White's farm how

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grim that in the year of perfect vision
our hindsight is failing as I walk home

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mask damp burnweed drifts from the
tracks like fairies like pathogens

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like it did last spring

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thank you so much love that poem I think
poetry is gonna get us all really

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through this as will music music for the
Soul from sacred places

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this from fourth-year student Chelsea
Holt on the organ playing a song of solace

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that's our show folks thanks for
watching a special shout out to my

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mother and my wife my two favorite
Mother's a big fan of mother nature too

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but she gets her own day Earth Day. In
two weeks we'll be coming back to you

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with another episode of Arts on the Hill
next Saturday be sure to tune in at 1pm

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for the virtual celebration and
conferral of degrees which is going to

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include some pretty amazing arts as well
and some great music folks these are

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crazy times hang in there and just know
that with each day there is progress and

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hope be well and see you in a couple weeks