pressed 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 with his extraordinary technique he's been called the fastest kynaston 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 when mixing

their beats and plays that it's neither classical nor pop it's his very own version . of the colors i would like a classical puritan hours someone called a beggar back and they're going to cross or i will say they're crazy there's no way i don't know i was 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. they don't 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 proper or to orchestra. it's like it's over their head because it's in

a language course of their they don't want to set a record highs 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 the here which constructed 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 plays 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. we'll see that there's so many people who are except yours are very like your music i think it's very rewarding for every artist and i'm special to have and a friend of corn for the ethic like friends 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 i read this music for the people who like it and i enjoy that luckily there are many people who love this where they're for. maxime there are plans to keep

experimenting with musical styles to get even more people excited about crossover and classical music. now 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 absent this was instead of a honeymoon for a week they invited the world's press into the hotel suite as their unconventional way of trying to promote world 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 a cloud of fun high remembers the bad and clearly. there are still three. for take off your glasses also hold its i mean it's just. and. rather arrogant you know rather liverpool. and then yoko said you know what the nasty adults are this young kid this asking so frankly what is crazy all right all right all right i will do and then took off his glasses and i was able to make you know the only photo. without glasses. 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 no i was a man who stayed at the. david living there was a few years later there robin i didn't get to see yoko but. now i could remember the bed in the 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 it you know i think that just shows how iconic 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 go no in 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 it would work today with social media in the age where you or i could broadcast ourselves live on instagram in our pajamas know it but it had a lot more weight back than 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 an actual. yoko ono and john lennon got so much flack that 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 regionally meant to be in america that's where they had a second weeklong 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 nine hundred sixty nine 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 and he dead.

now to 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 bag compares the music and together the swedish artist conjure up scenes that resemble dreams or perhaps suppressed memories it can be playful it can be violent but whatever it is the illusion is brought to us by manipulating played out . was welcome to a treasure trove of possibilities. these videos and their colorful characters are the mutual creations of not only your bag and tom's bag. i. think we selected our favorite pieces for the collection because look at 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 no stowaway sarry tales we told with a modern twist highlighting forbidding desire as primordial fia's. did you oh create the images and sound single taney asli each element influencing the other. districts 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 the get up to. the. no the only made us i

like open up some up for me all these characters the one in the same person going into the guard. it's ok but this one here is not very happy. and making fun of him a bit of the moment dora shelley on that basically i only develop a character if i sense a connection with them and their feelings i mean are you store shall know otherwise i immediately lose interest since you are into suppose. also or 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 hands bag can be enjoyed on the coins tada in frankfurt until the twenty sixth of money.

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the source of these captivating sounds. deep in the rain forest in central africa. the bayaka people. and. nothing else looks like the bullets leaving. my little home. he was good by their culture if he stayed. only a promise to. leave the jungle and return to the concrete and glass jungle. the result reverse culture shock. the prize winning documentary from the forest starts people first on t w.

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