we call for the legal. democracy. discontinuous down like this through the. neighborhood. and i. think. one of islamism and exclusive. starts. to famous violinist and conductor under the ring is joins us next as the show goes out on the road. hi everyone and welcome to this very special edition of your

own max where we have a very special guest co-hosting the program with us and today it is maestro andre were you conductor and musician thank you so much for having us today and welcoming us in your beautiful home it's a test to have you here thank you were in my searched we're out of the studio mystery you know we're called the king of the waltz how do you do you accept this title of course it's good to have a it's you who gave it to me the media and the right not myself but i can live with it or you come from a musical background i've read quite a bit about your musical history was there ever any doubt in your life that you would become a musician no no that's true. my mother told me that i wrote five. thing to have good times for the violin so here is the violin and that was the thought. i attended to all the concerts of my father and so saw the whole classical music i

heard troubled classical music but. the waltz was always there always because he loved to play in the on chorus waltzes and as a small boy i was sitting there you know the whole concept of our mining of beethoven whatever it was it was everybody was so serious and then suddenly at the walls that people started to smile at to be happy and i think that was the beginning that i was in law for that will are we are going to come to the wild but actually my story or has sold more concerts i believe than pop star beyonce and you've managed to turn your passion for classical music into a multi-million euro business so let's take a closer look at the life and career of uncle you. andre three years the king of the waltz lives in the dutch city of must finish. he

delights fans the world over it's classical music as a show of him with plenty of surprises and laughs that's. his coworkers describe him as strict but with a keen sense of humor he's not just a violinist he leads the largest private orchestra in the world with a permanent ensemble of about fifty musicians. was. at the orgy of the proposition that the trumpet sounds different this time let me hear the other woman. your words.

are yes the other one sounds more entirely. undergoing he was born in one thousand nine hundred forty nine into a family of musicians in moscow he started learning to play the violin when he was five later he played with various dutch ensembles. nineteen ninety five saw his international breakthrough he performed at half time at the champions league football match between byron munich and i.x. amsterdam afterwards his sales went through the roof. top of the league. but his elaborate stage shows threaten to become an obstacle in his path to success in two thousand and eight he had a life sized replica of vienna should have been palace built as a set and shipped to australia in more than two hundred containers the colossal undertaking pushed him to the edge of bankruptcy. that's all history now and the

renewed venture is back in the black his tours take him all over the world so there are always four copies of his sets. several coffees are also made of the custom tailored costumes he designs himself. under the years has turned his love of classical music into a million year old business and this one skiing is living his own fairytale thirteenth that one of the keys to your success at least what i've observed is your sense of humor and your interaction with your audience as you conduct your back to resistance but facing your audience and you often have your solo with interact in a funny way in the audience react. you know how did you. to come to to do that what what how do you come to this idea i think it was it was inside me again back to my

mother she said always to me under a don't look to people into the eyes that's not polite but i think that's a life when i don't look you into your eyes i mean how can i make contact with you is so that's what i do with my whole audience now you're johann strauss orchestra you founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven you were already a professional musician working you'd already established your career more or less what inspired you to create the orchestra because of my colleagues in the so-called classical orcus as you know they were sitting there playing then though it's complaining about it's too hot it's too cold not enough money when is the next holiday nobody spoke about the music and then much of my wife she saw me coming back from the house saw every day more unhappy and she said you know i own the money for you and you'll follow your dream because that was my own officer it's

a great partnership you're still with us still yeah yeah i always dreamt to marry a wife. that i would be working with so i know that she would be a dentist anonymization you know i wanted to do everything together and that's what we still do you know you're able to get people to attend classical music concerts that may never do that you know what is your secret method really i think the secret is that we when we play classical music we don't. adapt it to the great audience by putting him on the beethoven there or something you know we play it like it should be played but in the whole context that that they accept it more with humor. ok you helped us put this program together today and one of the subjects that you chose was a report on rome and yeah why do you like rome so much first of all because that's my holiday once once

a year ago as we days to rome with the whole family and secondly because i'm very fascinated by the romans how they created all this. things they could create and that time. i would i would like to think big like they like but without doubt. everything with blogs and cruelty. i would like to think big but with. our we would like to take our viewers on a tour through the city of la i think that for a fair designation for rome and we're going to do like the romans do on of us. if you want to see all the sights of rome you'll need plenty of time this city has more than two thousand seven hundred years of history. and that's evident wherever you look. hard historian by a lady of an easy is a tour guide in rome his company roman offers tours on best scooters.

ok yeah. he's typical italian scooters are ideal for weeding through the busy traffic in rome. we pass from the main sites like the colosseum which dates back to around eighty eighty. in the middle of the there are two things i like about driving a best buy around rome personally i like the sound of the engine and secondly i realise how many beautiful places there are i drive past the castille santangelo and st peter's basilica through all the little streets and past the fountains and i think rome is fantastic a lot of it i mean to be called on my from. the roman forum it was the centerpiece of ancient rome and today a key area for excavation to form gives an idea of what life was like in rome in the days of julius caesar and emperor augustus.

put it best source at the rome would like to be both an ancient and a modern city but whenever we start digging we find a roman villa or a capital. but all that shit we just have to assemble all of the wrong. being a museum. so we can only adapt to modern times in a limited way let them show them shifty be meaty up a little get me to. want to be advantages of driving through rome on a best buy is that it's easy to escape the traffic jams. that unique human hill offers a welcome haven and the best views of the city. the financial not the fatigue after all hard day's work money we locals from rome like to come here to relax a little and on sundays we visit the many parks you can see from up here that was supposed to get back there we see the low lying dome that's the dome of the pantheon which is around two thousand years old. and that was to the left is the white church with the two towers three any time of day month which stands above the

spanish steps. outside the spot and then there's the villa maybe cheated on me that she. did might be a good idea to hit the tourist sites in highest demand early in the morning or late in the evening. after just one day of riding around rome on a vest but it's clear we need more time if we wanted to see all of the least capital city. so when you are in rome you're famous can you walk around like a typical tourist or people come up to you and why are your autograph. because once we were there at the pope what's coming. up and place wait and wait they're winning i was standing there giving autographs giving autographs and then the pope came and all the people asked who was that. thanks to. all k. so you're more famous than the poet. now when

you're on the road quite a lot of called to follow routine i mean and especially in terms of food you know do you are you big fan of a time cuisine. because where we have our own cooks i wrote yeah that's a several reasons at the beginning we we didn't have cokes and then the new movie the year is coming so let's surf winos not so the next city we came that so if we know it's not so and so we were eating a whole week we know sneed so so to avoid that we said ok we have cokes and that's healthier and you don't have to wait and sit right speaking of the national thought i'd also know you're a fan of vienna yeah yeah. and this is where johann strauss the second more or less perfected the wild in the form that we know it ok so we know your music is about the wild for it but do you dance the well i dance no let me

play ok you prefer to vienna is essentially where the waltz was made popular one hundred and eighty years ago and but to in today's day and age people are still dancing it aren't they yes happily you know every night when we give a concert and the we play the den oop. and don't tell them to stand up and dance but that's the way we play it and then you can play the. film and then nobody will stand up but when you're played to be when you. need. then it goes like that ok well we were recently in vienna to see if young people are still down. this dance school in austria is capitalist policy on a viennese tradition to the next generation pupil swirling flows around the hole in

times of the music the viennese waltz fast became fashionable here in the eighteenth century still popular bowls and parties today so once learn to understand that because all the print like honestly all the princesses in the world is they could also down. the ones to learn that that's even is their motto is a survivor and that i think the waltz is either just as easy or of just as hard for both partners depending on how well they master the music and the steps. he says they're the form. by to myself music to speak to me the wall says something viennese about it it's a viennese tradition this not so fun so it's also one of the most frequent dances that pulls the stimulus to home i think it's a very harmonious dance it represents austria it's part of our culture like the wienerschnitzel. i mean see informal ever someone plays a waltz everyone immediately starts moving you just can't help it focused on. the

viennese waltz is one of the world's fastest dances it was first mentioned in the late seventeenth century and soon became established as a ballroom dance both with the nobility am the middle classes can still hit with young and old today the world over there are various reasons why. it's a computer. freak wish it would make it easier to don's turning right or left the music. music is a beautiful part of this i'm sure it's a lovely feeling moving in three four times and it's right for us we just like to dance by. the compositions of johann strauss the younger made the viennese waltz some worldwide success musician and composer wrote such classics as the blue danube waltz and reshape the popular image of vienna. this museum chronicles his work and that of the entire strauss dynasty banister music research of how much

right now is a co-founder he spent years studying the history of the strauss family which produced so many great musicians that work both. on the breakthrough came with johann strauss the elder around eighteen thirty he went on concert tours of england in france and caused a huge sensation with his waltzes. heel hunched all so then his son also called johann perfected the form of the waltz yet they still pull the heels if his brother you also played a decisive part and together they expanded on the waltz form. many original documents some displayed in seven rooms your home strauss the young know was born in eighteen twenty five he composed nearly five hundred well it's. not far from the museum is the vienna stage opera the size of the annual opera bowl

it traditionally opens with a viennese waltz. is on the feel good times through the d.n.a. is walter's dance especially often at vienna's balls we have around four hundred fifty of these events a year practically every week except in july and august the about interesting stuff and virtually every time they dance a viennese waltz is right from the start. it's always the opening waltz which fires . one scene successfully means practice practice and practice simone bienne is done schools of new shows each customers. so i guess it's fair to say that you are carrying on the strauss family dynasty with your music and encouraging this popular dance to be dance do you think it will still live on one hundred eighty years do you think it will follow on from or

whatever the also is forever because it's something that it's in the blood of everybody it's like the heartbeat how big goes one two if we want to we will. so you don't you're going to have to follow your heart beat now johann strauss both father and son and the other sons they composed their own wealth you compose your own music yes every now and then every now and then but they were there were geniuses and i'm only a musician so i'm very very lucky that i can play their beautiful music now what do you think it is it because the the waltz is so easy to dance or that it makes it so don't feel there was a melody in these yet oh you don't think if you know it's very very difficult it's really very deflator to dance both both honey because i've heard other elephants are very often i see so-called classical or concerts and then oh yeah let's play

a waltz and ok we have five minutes so let's do it because it's easy no it's not easy but then why is it so popular with general audiences. i think because of the weather one two three you think about computing power even if you're not musical and it's very interesting when i am in the audience i see my hole and he said i play t. . and the whole audience farts but one man sitting there not me and that's the critic ok oh all right i think you could so it's all right why do i say that it's a question of let a self go right when you don't want yourself gift get yourself to the walls and then it's a fantastic. you know well one thing that is quite clear to any observer of your concerts is how you bring immense joy to them and there are scientific findings that music is therapeutic and it makes everyone feel good so let's take a closer look at a report on this theory here we're going to. music

gets us moving. it brings a smile to our faces. and it touches our emotions in short music makes us happy. and dutch neuropsychologist eric shanteau knows why his book singing in the brain explains just what happens inside our brains when we listen to music. one thing that has been described in the literature of music is expectation so the moment you think all right this is a. known melody when death moments arrives right then you will find i will split up the writing a list if you will find the need to face of the reward system this is the system that you think yes this is what i want. reading sheet music and performing at

the same time can be challenging but professionals like on break the year have trained their brains to master both skills at once so they can handle both with ease. you will see that he uses a less brain areas and less neural systems for playing at a very high level that's his expertise and by doing did he build remain a lot of neural circuits will remain and all the energy will stay there extra energy and business excess energy you elect to feed neural systems that will enable him to liberate. some. and that allows violinist on the plane and his orchestra to put on a truly spectacular show so how does the audience feel. excited and.

i'm pretty sure of it but here's a copy happier i'm speech. and i have no words i want to laugh i want to cry on everything at the same time. concertmaster frank stein's incredible talent also helps things along. the joint on the playing. cast a more than twenty years ago. when i started playing violin you had to look at each finger you have to think about each ball you're doing and studying more and more and more everything disappears it just happens automatically it's something it's like some other part of me is doing all this and i have my brain free to do to do something else. music can conjure up powerful emotions and help our brains develop that's why eric shanteau want schools to offer music classes. concerning the

defilement of the brain our children up until thirty years of age. particularly the white matter particularly in the prefrontal cortex is still defaulting until thirty years a page so to do it as optimal as possible we will like to challenge the brain as much as sports and music should be one of those challenges music is evidently much more than just stellar entertainment so fans attending on the use concerts are not just having a great time they're training their brains to. ok we hear people making people have happy as i mentioned before. you bring tears to your audience. you know where people are and i actually watching somewhere today was one with sir anthony hopkins absolute tears away as it was very moving you're about and you've managed to do this and all strella as well as trains are huge fans of yours what do you do differently there don't do that thing different they did it but the audience there

is very down to earth and. i think we are down to earth also so we are doing normal your hundred said it and the whole and through the normal your specially enough so it's that harvey australians are and and then there's a clique with tween us william the audience and. our music and my orchestra ok and then in fact is one of your biggest audience his concerts took place in australia in melbourne i believe him yes it's true yeah now the biggest was in the toronto but that's australian that's a totally different account and. ok are you planning on going back to australia or yes you know we go no november we go back to its credit to get christmas concerts ok but you're also planning you've got a couple things in the mix but you've got a big tour coming up in september fifteenth tell me a little bit about that effect i'm always on tour so it's not. a tour coming up.

first the other concerts i'm on straight then we go after the break we go to attend to now then we go to america then we go towards freddy had to and great back to england and then to germany. for how do you keep track of all of this how do you get jetlag i mean who got that set like points to shoot scientific. find something. that's unethical to please and you ever lose track of what city you're in always i'm always asking where are we because you know the only thing but that's true of the people i speak that must be very tiring but it is not it is. once on the roads i'm on a holiday because the only thing i have to do is together with my office or we jump in the bus with jump on stage we do our music we go to the tell with sleep we go back so everything is all going to eyes much area we are out of time for today fred

thank you so much for having us in your view of the home and thank you to all of you for tuning in with me making me and my show on trade me a. few good.

good. so this is the view from my seat in. on section. sara willis knows her stuff. is going to be the missing. and conductor. and she shows just how diverse classical music can be.

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