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news papers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many congress and the problems are always the same board to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption work on the fourth to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the white voters who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny powers and i work a d w. a . turning up on your own mike so you can sit back and enjoy some classic film score
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than a moment but first here's a look forward. to read in vienna why films both composers are discovering austria . manhattans in berlin head to a nostalgic cocktail bar the german capital. and living in a box presenting a design of madame boss like. this ingrown stays in vienna is an old recording studio that was designed way before the invention of modern sound desks because of this and the natural sound of the instruments in the studio is phenomenal that is what the owner as a trying to advertise since they reopened the space two years ago and when renowned film composers like danny elfman are in town they invite them along to see their innovations and to listen to the brilliant acoustics let's find out if he was impressed.
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hollywood composer danny elfman is or is he's come to a sense the acoustics of the cincom stage piano. thanks as i expected it's wonderful just there's no way to put into words what's special about acoustics those either work or they don't and that's how it works it's that simple. musicians from vienna's finest orchestras come to this facility equipped with high end technology to record movies go see johnny a show they make a grey. suit that's the cultural heritage of vienna the musical so deep i look forward to recording here with an orchestra as soon as the conditions will permit me to do that i have no question that the musicians are excellent here . danny elfman is one of hollywood's most versatile composers. he's written
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film scores for spider-man. fifty shades of grey. and many other famous facts. there are no rules in fact the only rule is that there are no rules i try to make my mind blank when i first see the first images of the film as blank as i can and it's more like what comes into my mind if i could make it totally blank. this week danny elfman will receive the max china award at the hollywood in vienna concert to ana his accomplishments. born in vienna china moved to hollywood in the late one nine hundred twenty s. there he developed the technology used to record film scores. reading for classics like gone with the wind. and casablanca.
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mechs diner was the beginning of all of it and it was like a revelation this music from beginning to end in the music is telling us the story and the music tells us there's suspense in the music tells us there's fear and the music tells us there's romance and from that moment on. music was part of film. two years ago a sink on stage was brought back to life by musician and filmmaker habit took mandel he acquired the rundown facility once owned by production company film city vienna it was the first studio in the well built specifically the recording film music. back in the one nine hundred thirty s. good acoustics weren't yet created with a computer. i guess was practically everything that sounds really excellent comes from this time period by the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century
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that was when the best halls were built after that a lost the feel for it it was the acoustics in this hall were incredibly well thought out it gives the recordings a clear and honest quality has to be. big name composers have taken a liking to the place. german composer hans zimmer recorded the soundtrack to the feature film inferno here. oscar winning french composer alexandra de spot was last year's recipient of the max steiner award he made use of his time in vienna to record his compositions here with austrian musicians worried about zinc onstage is slowly getting out. i think it's just a matter of a little bit of time and recognition and i think
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a lot of that will be when a few scores a few good scores get recorded here and people at home go where was that record in the all that was with vienna with this orchestra then it's that's that's it people . have to go there and record. danny elfman is already looking forward to returning to the austrian capital to walk the musical traditions of vienna coupled with a kilometer of hollyweird is a combination that short silver cinema. well we stay on the subject of hollywood stars at the top of our express so let's move on to catch up with the latest news from around your. so these london auction off items belonging to the late hollywood star vivien leigh on tuesday the british actress found international fame when she played scarlett
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o'hara in gone with the wind. paintings gowns furniture and jewelry. including a gold ring given to her by her husband laurence olivier were among the items up for sale as was the screenplay lee used to learn the part of scarlett the entire collection of three hundred twenty one items fetched over three million euros. french fashion label dior has presented its new collection for spring and summer twenty eighteen at the principle take shows in paris once again the labels had designer maria curie remain true to her feminist principles. to mark the seventieth anniversary she took inspiration from the nar creator nikki. aim to give the work of female artists a stage. if salo also chose an unusual venue for
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a show the label presented its new collection on a runway right in front of the eiffel tower. among the guests us rock star lenny kravitz. paris fashion week runs until october third. british artist david hockney has donated one of his greatest works to the song top pompey due in paris the oil painting the arrival of spring in watergate east yorkshire in twenty eleven is approximately ten meters long and takes up thirty two you can't miss says the eighty year old painter says the song top on p. do organized the biggest hockney retrospective of all time which is why it received such a large famous work the hours. forum opened its hockney retrospective on june twenty first it runs until october twenty fifth.
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donnelly on is a monster of crime novels she was born in america but spends a lot of a younger life in europe twenty five years ago donna published her first book set in venice italy where she lived at the time little did she know about point that the novel would turn into a whole series translated all i over the world this is a mouse has seventy fifth birthday but she doesn't plan on putting the pen down any time soon. the and. millions of tourists flock to the italian city of venice each year for dhanam lance readers this is also the scene of countless crimes. homicide. solves the crimes in lands whodunits. this year the author is celebrating her seventy fifth birthday. but there's another reason for a party. nettie has been on the scene in venice for a quarter of
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a century. it's not that i say well now i'm going to write a book about the traffic in women or the abuse of drugs or the banks or the insurance companies or dishonest liars i merely see a scene in which something happens to a particular person and then i am made curious by that see. how books have been translated into thirty five languages but not into italian leon wants venetians to retain an unbiased opinion of her because her closeness to people is what brings her books to life and this is an attempt to give people an idea of what the city might really be like it would be presumptuous of me to say that that's what the city really is like this is what i have perceived in the city . over the last thirty thirty five years having friends almost all of whom are venetians so the gossip but i hears is venetians. done early on has
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lived in venice on and off for over thirty years now so she knows the city well. she certainly mastered the art of weaving the romantic image tourists have of venice into her crime novels people associate beauty with goodness so i think that most people believe that if a place or person is beautiful that place or person cannot have bad thing. cannot have bad qualities and so to take badness whether it's murder or theft or burglary or violence some sort of some short sort and put it in a beautiful place there's a kind of shock when people see that these two things that shouldn't be together are together. john only on didn't plan to become an author she worked all over the world as a tour guide and ad writer and a teacher. first she planned to become an academic but it
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wasn't to be a series of coincidences smooth the way to a life of crime writing. in her books the author goes beyond presenting murder and misdeeds to reflect the social conditions in the city including the increasing problem of mass tourism in venice and to november i won't live there i say i can't move there but i'm really saying i won't live there because it's so crowded there's thirty million people tourists and they come primarily in the summer and it makes me very nervous an angry and aggressive. donnellan now spends most of her time in switzerland but she visits venice regularly and remains loyal to. his twenty sixth case featured in her latest book earthly remains was released earlier this year retirement is the furthest thing from her mind how does she feel about turning seventy five the very privileged time in my life i just do what i want to do luckily i want to work and
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so when i get to the point where the books aren't fun to write when the experience of of making things work together like like a dish of pasta works together everything blends together then i'll stop because if i don't like it. you certainly. donnelly on has just finished writing brunette he's twenty seventh case and the crime novel is set to hit books. may twentieth. to it. and now from its latest spain where we had the pleasure of nosing around an old from modern home known by locals as the next house is design maybe unusual from the outside but a lot of thought went into the shape of the x. means the owners have breathtaking the years along with much wanted previous.
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the x house stands in the hills around. east of barcelona. it's a shape it's best appreciated from above the building appears to be floating. exactly what owner. had dreamed of. hello welcome to my home near barcelona come in and i'll show you the house. the two storey building has three hundred fifty square metres of living space the main living area is on the lower floor. this is our living room where we spend lots of time with our friends meeting up having fun or most of all enjoying the views which are extraordinary. six metre high glass facades allow panoramic views from every room. you can even see the mediterranean. chose the
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x. shape to enable views of both the mountain and the sea. the back of the house office privacy from naples. played an important role in the construction of the house. we wanted to integrate it into the project. changed the landscape because it was already there. so we had to construct the house in a way that enabled it to fit into the natural environment. while the planning the house with the architect he came up with a fitting concept for the furniture simple and modern. legals favorite spot is right next to his office on the upper floor this is where
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he comes to relax. clear lines and colors dominate the interior design combined with classics like these armchairs by charles and ray. what i love about classic furniture is the history behind it. it's the story behind the furniture that i like the architecture and the engineering and the people who created it. adjoining the living room is a kitchen with an open dining area. the seven metre long marble table was designed specially for the house it's integrated cooking surface was tailor made in germany . the building stacks is divided into different kinds of living space the house was
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designed by an architect eduardo cut about the concept was a challenge as it was one of the first houses ever built in this shape. we were called. by the client because we had some experience in doing concrete houses and he wanted to test the construction technique of shot create a project of concrete that is normally used for bridges and tunnels to be received then show. spaces. the experiment was successful but expensive the house cost two million euros to build it's mainly made of concrete and glass in the master bedroom the windows reach from the ceiling to the floor. when i wake up and it's the first thing i see. from my bed is nature. the position of the bedroom as really nice and it was conceived that way you don't
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see the house or anything if you only see nature as if you were sleeping outside. even off the five years ago and his family never tire of the extraordinary home and the breathtaking view. cheerier design at its best and check out our you tube channel interior design stunning design ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics accessories subscribe and don't miss out see you on you tube. paralyzed to have a cocktail of their weekends is easy it's a list of a few classic cocktails even if you don't drink but in berlin there's
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a bar which encourages you to try something new and in fact i say old because they've created all their own bases on a number of licas naturally and use traditional recipes for the classic call tails this bar basically combines the old with the new let's take a look. fancy a trip back in time then head to berlin is quite spec'd district that is where the bar plays homage to american prohibition era speakeasies and the golden age of cocktail culture in the past. one thousand nine hundred twenty s. bassett was incredibly influential it's the time when all the classic drinks the manhattan the old fashioned and the martini created we celebrate that here it is. these retro drinks need natural aroma as the rumors that you can hardly find in any industrially made products today that's why the women at the a bar makes many liquors syrup and bitters from scratch. here is red
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wine and figs syrup it was simple to make we cooked red wine and fakes added a little cinnamon and sugar to make syrup it's perfect combined with a dark rum. and this here is a chocolate look you created a banana coffee look your date like you. these are then used in the unique cocktails and lemonade. as many classics like that cosmopolitan made according to the original recipe from nine hundred thirty four. long tonic can be had two there's also craft there on tap but their homemade creations with unusual ingredients are the most popular. one here but linen night is an all time favorite that it contains are homemade rosemary syrup some vodka and cranberry juice passion fruit juice and some chilli extract garnished with
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a sprig of rosemary and tastes absolutely fantastic fantastic it's such a smooth well balanced concoction it'll make you want more there is some drinks will set you back up to twenty four euros each so a whole evening can be quite costly but the regulars say it is money well spent. they recommended something to me based on what i like i like whisky this is blood in smoke it's based on scotch. it tastes great and the balls within walking distance from the hartford natural aromas attentive service some things just where better back then. celebrates the good ol days but without being old fashioned. but outside of the bars here in berlin you can find musicians on the streets all series this week is proving how beneficial that is for musicians to get themselves noticed the funk band we face is a is no exception they've got several bookings from being heard on the street which
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isn't actually a street it's so but an island in between the protests crossing. you . know and i play guitar. crispy i play saxophone and sing. i cannae i play bass with brian address and i'm the drama rupert's kitchen orchestra drop.
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the s. the band first we started to form a band we came together from different walks of life and decided to try making music on the street now we've been doing it for money is why it's. getting my sword to listen to this most people think it's great because at first glance it looks so strange people think what's going on here is a band on a traffic island no way. of course there are also people who cover their ears but for the most part it's good it's good no one covers there is yes they do there's a maybe grandmas who haven't got their hearing aids adjusted right and health care is because it squeals. and you know people think we're good we play at weddings birthdays and. runs the. parks and then we
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played at the film festival on the dispute. at concerts people are euphoric which is great but it lacks not natural reaction that's when someone on the street says i was in such a bad mood before but after hearing you guys play i feel much better. as i don't go. there. as a band we travel a lot we're on the road the entire week so monday as we can but the rest of the week we welcome new. jobs maybe. you have to work hard for applause but we love it.
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and if you missed any of our episodes from the series find them on our website d.w. dot com flash lifestyle site is also where you can find more information about the prize draw that we have this week if you want to win a modeling kits of the building designed by danish stock. then we need to do is send in a picture or sketch of your dream and your name will go into the list to be drawn at random at the end of the week best of luck to you. and now it is time to say goodbye for the day cameron will be with you on the show tomorrow but i will see you again next week until then take care of by. next time your room. has buildings where. it's
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sometimes permitted to visit his father. ever. in thirty minutes of deep dark. germany state by state. the most colorful. the liveliest. the most traditional find it all at any time. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state on d w dot com. it's all about the moments that right before. it's all about the stories in so.
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