bed with the world's press to promote world peace did they succeed we'll find out. and the swedish os is jew and there we had a wonderful stop motion video. the croatian musician maxime irvin started playing the piano when he was eight a new after just a few lessons that he wanted to become a professional pianist meanwhile with his extraordinary technique he's been called the fastest ten ist in the world and he's really made a name for himself especially in asia as a crossover artist with new interpretations of classical music that appeal to a younger audience. recognize this piece of music it's the well known in the home of the mountain king by norwegian composer and greek written in eight hundred sixty seven would not seem

their hits and plays it it's neither classical nor pop it's his very own version. or whatever the call is i would like a classical puritan hours someone called her back to back you know going to the cross or i would say you're crazy there's no way i don't know why or now with some very very into classical music and then i thought you know we need to find a way to introduce younger audience to classical music because otherwise for me one day i want to continue the tradition of classical music. to croatian pianists crossover concept seems to work it excites audiences including those at his very first berlin concert. where people are asked to go through popper or to. the stuff it's like is over their head because is it

a language or something that they don't understand or recognize or something like this is something that you recognize. he once played the flight of the bumblebee by nikolai rimsky-korsakov in just fifty six seconds he became known as one of the fastest pianists in the world his modern interpretation of the piece also appeared on his first crossover album the piano player in two thousand and three it was a career breakthrough to date he has sold more than four million albums in fifty seven countries. couple months of my life turned upside down and i signed it here which got a truck through one of the biggest you know record labels in the world it's like a dream come true from one situation to another. interview to has so far released eleven albums he plays concerts worldwide. his greatest success has been in asia

in japan and china he play shows with lots of effects in large concert halls in front of tens of thousands of spectators and to his fans he's a superstar. i. see that there's so many people or accept or is there like your music i think it's very rewarding for every artist you know and special to have been a friend of scorn for the rustic like for that i have. in addition to classical pieces he also gives familiar pop songs a new sound like john legend's all of me. and how does he deal with the critics who don't know what to make of his classical pop fusion are made this those are for the people who like it and i enjoy that luckily there are many people who love this weather there. maxime it plans to keep

experimenting with musical styles to get even more people excited about crossover and classical music. thank you. fifty years ago this week the beatles john lennon and his new bride yoko ono held what they called a bed in in a hotel in the dutch capital amsterdam this was instead of a honeymoon for a week they invited the world's press into that hotel suite as that i'm conventional way of trying to promote well peace it was the time of the vietnam war and the antiwar protest was gathering pace. john lennon and yoko ono greeted reporters in pajamas encouraging the world to stay in bed and grow their hair but their real message was world peace because to harness the global interest in their new marriage to promote the cause.

i hear peace protest at the amsterdam hilton at the height of the vietnam war captured the world's interest. fifty years on photographer cloud a fun high who remembers the bad and clearly. still things for take off your glasses all said oh no it's me it's john lennon. and they're rather arrogant you know rather a little cool. and then there are yoko set up the nasty i was sure who is this young kid is asking is so friendly what it crazy or i go rog all right i will go and then he took over the grasses and i was able to make out the only photo. without good as. later when john lennon was asked if the bet in could be taken seriously he replied that it was part of the couple's policy not to be taken

seriously. and yet their hope for world peace is still an inspiration today. and with me now is a man who stayed at the. david levitte it was a few years later there rob and i i didn't get to see yoko. now i could remember the bed it happening because i was a sort of impressionable teenager at the time but you weren't even born but even for you it's a significant event and it is you know i think that just shows how i conduct the bed in was you can't talk about the peace movement of the late sixty's without talking about the bad and the way that you're go and john lennon went about selling peace to the world as if it were a product you know and they were the poster children as if it were a breakfast cereal even and this was their gimmick to get people's interest going now obviously we don't have world peace so in that sense it didn't work but the

fact that we're still talking about a fifty years later is impressive and i don't think that it would work today with social media in the age where you or i could broadcast ourselves live on instagram in our pajamas no it but it had a lot more weight back that yeah but it did catch the attention of the world's press at the time but there was a lot of skepticism as well there was there was this sense of well you know you're rich you can hang out all day in your pajamas but what about the rest of us and what good is it really going to do and actually yoko ono and john lennon got so much flak but at the time john lennon wrote the song the ballad of john and yoko you know where he sings christ you know it ain't easy and one of these days they're going to crucify me and that was about this period in time and that was actually one of the last songs that the beatles released. now there is another bed in anniversary coming out which was a region of the meant to be in america that's where they had a second week. bed and originally that was supposed to be in new york but it couldn't happen there because john lennon couldn't get a visa because he'd been convicted of cannabis possession in the us not long before

that so the legend goes that they went to the bahamas but there it was actually too hot for them so they took off after one night and they went up to cold canada to montreal and that bed in is actually is the subject of a documentary that yoko ono has up on her you tube page these days it's called bed of peace we can take a little look at that this is where they recorded give peace a chance that iconic song and it was quite a party timothy leary showed up allen ginsberg was there and by the way you can actually rent this suite at the queen elizabeth hotel in montreal for nineteen hundred and sixty nine dollars one thousand six doesn't fit in my travel budget but you know there's got to be someone out there watching some fan here who can make it work ok david thank you very much thanks for joining is it not she i should say that although john lennon is no longer with us we'll be featuring yoko ono on the show next week because she's got a new exhibition in germany thanks dad. and

now it's a weird and wonderful exhibition in the couldn't stella in frankfurt not a day job bag painstakingly make stop motion videos out of the clay models that she creates spag compares the music and together the swedish artist conjure up scenes that resemble dreams or perhaps suppressed memories that can be playful it can be violent but whatever it is the illusion is brought to us by manipulating play. was welcome to a treasure trove of possibilities. these videos and that colorful characters are the mutual creations of not only cure bag and tom's bag. all that there would be i think we selected our favorite pieces for the collection this show chronicles fourteen years of cooperation it's appropriately titled thank you meant a song

a journey through the mud and confusion with small glimpses of. a forest a big bad wolf and a little girl who has lost her way sarry tales we told with a modern twist highlighting forbidden desires primordial fia's. did you take the images and sound single tiny asli each element influencing the other. oh this is this video has a special rhythm i try to follow it the camera never steer it's always moving. my music picks up on that and drives the pictures forward with it further and further and so through from.

you know most of the leaders i like and i sum up for me all these characters the one in the same person going into the guard. of a boat is this one here is not very happy. and making fun of him a bit at the moment though a shell that basically i only develop a character if i sense a connection with them and their feelings to me are you store shelf otherwise i immediately lose interest. since you are interested but it does set off. course all to such as and after a while i realize that art is indeed the only field in our society that is really open and free. so fucked if you can ignore all the rules. the wonderful words of not only do a bag and handbag can be enjoyed of the queen's toddler in frankfurt until the twenty sixth of money.

some music and some play dough and they can be really quite frightening but it's over today more information on all stories that we had today on our website as indeed this show will be on our website short shortly as well in case you missed anything that's d.w. dot com slash culture but for now thanks for watching i'm.

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