Be found in a single star system capella is one of the brightest stars in the night sky tonight it Khans into view in the Northeast in mid evening far to the left of the moon capella consists of 2 pairs of stars that are a trillion miles apart one pair is quite bright it forms the pinpoint we see with our eyes alone the other is too faint to see without a telescope. 'd the stars that make up the bright pair are separated by about the gap between the sun and Venus the 2nd planet out from our distance of 42 light years it takes special telescopes to see the individual stars astronomers discovered there binary nature by breaking their light into its individual wavelengths that revealed 2 patterns of light one for each star both stars are bigger brighter and heavier than the Sun The other pair consists of 2 faint stellar embers there as far apart as Pluto is from the sun so it takes hundreds of years for them to orbit each other as a result it took decades to confirm that the stars form a binary today we still haven't seen them complete even a single orbit so there's a bit of uncertainty in the numbers about this faint pair of stars and we have more sky watching tips and much more about the universe in star date magazine details that start a dot org I'm Billy Henry. In a. Valley Public Radio came the p.r. Fresno a p.r. Expert field and online and a.v. P.r. Dot org. I'm delighted that you're along of Peter Van De Graff and I'm going to bring you some music from early France for a little bit beginning with this from about 1680 by shout lewdness composer this is a shock one played by Hopkinson Smith. Hopkinson Smith performed that shock on by Sean Cole. Violin Concerto awaiting you a piece about fiddler and his child symphonic poem by the Oceana check coming up as well this right now from the French baroque it is by Gilmour read look there was a violinist but he wrote this flute some not a in c. It's played by Christoph and the board it's the Meyerson and Hildegarde peril. The. Our trio of performers there Christophe went good work flute to Mitzi Meyerson harpsichord Hildegarde peril of the older a c. Major Sonata by French baroque composer Jo Mattie Clare next we have what's called a ballad but it's really a symphonic poem by the Oceana check from 1912 called the fiddler's child it's a gruesome story about a fiddler who dies a village Fetlar and he appears above his sleeping child playing his violin trying to bring the child into death away from the cares of the world there's an old man old woman taking care of the child she makes a sign of the cross but the ghostly fiddler. Comes back and takes the child away here is the. Beck and the check Philharmonic It's called the fiddler's child by Leo She and I check. 2 BUSY BUSY Conductor you know how back in the Czech Philharmonic with the ballad for orchestra by Lee Oceana check called the fiddler's child. This is from country fiddlers by pear Nordgren. More of. The. Form. Of the. From a piece called The portraits of country fiddlers by Paris Nordegren you. And speaking of Fed lawyers we have this by a violinist composer from Mozart's time who was born in Guadalupe in the Caribbean to a slave mother and a plantation owner father so he was half white half black His name is 78 descends yours and this is his violin concerto in a major with Rachel Barton Pine and Daniel had the conducting. Move. Move move move move move. You. 'd Rachel Martin pine violin Daniel Heggie conducting the accompanying orchestra that is the violin concerto by a Mozart contemporary named Shivani a dissenter George. And his birth was so unusual in that he was a prominent violinist that it's worth mentioning again his mother was an African slave in Guadeloupe father was a French plantation owner says by Sean moto It's called the proud corrupts. How can some Smith looted music by shall moved all called the proud corrupt. This is Valley Public Radio n.p.r. For central California Kavi p.r. Fresno a p.r. Expat has field and online and a.v.r. Dot org. 2 of history's greatest composers Up ahead one is Yohannes Brahms will be listening to his tragic overture and a fascinating transcription made by Brahms of music of Bach and we have some music of Bach right now in fact a couple of pieces including one of the keyboard concertos performed on the harpsichord by Bob Dylan.