<html><body><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;">Part 2</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><br></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><br></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 48px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;">Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a New York-based violinist who, in 2004, was struggling to come to terms with the death of a close friend and the way that this took the charm and beauty out of her life.</span><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"></span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;">In need of company, she took to a shelter near Lincoln Center and began making her way through Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major. Twelve people listened to the same notes she would soon play before an audience of 1,000. Some tapped their feet, laughed or smiled. Others, who told the violinist they had never heard classical music before, cried.</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“‘You can reach people in this situation on a deeper level, sometimes, than ticket-buying audiences,’ Ms. Hall-T</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;">ompkins said. ‘Of course, the nature of my career is playing concerts for ticket-buying audiences, but there’s something more profound reaching people with these pieces at this time in their lives.’</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The next year, Ms. Hall-Tompkins founded <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6x1HV0EoAM&feature=youtu.be"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); margin: 0px;">Music Kitchen — Food for the Soul</span></a>, a program that lifts the spirits of homeless New Yorkers through live <a target="_blank" href="http://www.musickitchennyc.org/"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); margin: 0px;">classical music recitals</span></a>. The intimate performances, which take place not on celebrated stages but in worn community rooms of shelters, have become a therapy of sorts for those who listen.</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“‘It’s a teeny-tiny program, but it’s been doing very impactful things,’ said Ms. Hall-Tompkins, who has since inspired nearly 200 chamber musicians, including <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/arts/music/review-a-stirring-premiere-at-the-philharmonic-with-perfect-timing.html"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); margin: 0px;">Emanuel Ax</span></a>, to join her for Music Kitchen performances in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Paris. ‘It’s hard now to see where my career ends and Music Kitchen begins.’</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“She has transformed the <a target="_blank" href="http://holyapostlessoupkitchen.org/"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); margin: 0px;">Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen</span></a> in Chelsea into a 19th-century concert hall with Brahms. During one performance of his sextet in G </span><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;">Major, ‘they were cheering like it was a sports game,’ Ms. Hall-Tompkins said of the roughly 1,000 people in the room. ’By the time we actually reached the end, they cheered like it was the winning point at the Super Bowl, and it was incredible.’” <sup>3</sup></span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of course, everyone there needed to be fed, needed something warm, to eat, someone beside who to sit, and to laugh and to cry. But it seems that few, if anyone, had thought about moving beyond that, had thought of Jesus, in all His Glory, reaching down to anoint the cowherd and bless the cow.</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Just how <b><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">DOES</span></b> Jesus’ Glory transfigure our lives, the lives of those who may never come into a church building except to find someplace warm, someplace to eat, someplace to cry?</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Homeless adults,” Kelly recognised, “are an underserved audience, she added. ‘A lot of programs we have cater to children — they’re still coming up and there’s still hope for them — but there’s a bleakness and a sense of hopelessness that sometimes people take on in the shelter’ as adults, Ms. Hall-Tompkins said. ‘It’s really important that they have the opportunity to be so moved.’”</span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><br></span></span></p></body></html>