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 it could be written in eight hundred sixty seven when maksim their hits and plays it it's neither classical nor pop it's his very own version.

or whatever at the colors i would like a classical puritan hours someone told me back to back and they're going to cross or i will say you're crazy there's no way i don't know why and i was very very into classical music and then i said 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 to copper or to orchestra it's like it's over their head because it's in a language or something that they don't understand or recognize where 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 i started in 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. peter victor has so far released eleven how long he plays concerts world why. 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 says superstar.

i. perceive that there's so many people who are except you're miserable like your music i think it's very rewarding for every artist and i'm special to have been a friend of corn for the ethic like forever 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 those are for the people who like it and i enjoy that luckily that i'm going to be a whole lot of the sort of the. back see me out of its plans to keep experimenting with musical styles to get even more people excited about crossover and classical music. thank you.

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. this was instead of a honeymoon for a week they invited the world's press into that hotel suite as their unconventional way of trying to promote weld paste it was the time of the vietnam war and then to war protests 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 the harnessed 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 in clearly. still things for take off your glasses all said oh no it's me is still in london. and that i'd rather arrogant you know rather live up to its letter and then yoko set the nasty i'll sure this young kid is asking you so frankly what if tracy said all right all right all right i will do and then you took over the grasses and i was able to make you know the only photo. without. 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 and i was a man who stated. that you could live it was a few years later there are the night i didn't get to see yoko. now i could remember the bed in the name because i was a sort of impressionable teenager at the time but you wouldn't even bowl but even for you it's a significant event and it is 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'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 it would work today with social media and 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 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 flack of it 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 this period in time that was actually one of the last songs that the beatles released. now there is another bed an 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 instead 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 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 nine 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 dan. now to a weird and wonderful exhibition in the couldn't stella in frankfurt not at the 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 play. was welcome to a treasure trove of possibilities. these videos and their colorful characters are the mutual creations of not telling your bag and hung his bag. all that there would be i think we selected of paper of pieces for the collection of the show chronicles fourteen years of cooperation it's appropriately titled thank you miss on a journey through the mud and confusion with small glimpses of. a forest a big bad wolf a little girl who has no stowaway sarry tales we told with

a modern twist highlighting forbidden desires primordial fia's. biggio create their images and sound single tiny asli each element influencing the other. notice it's 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 look at it. you know more so made us i let go but i'll sum up for me all these characters the one in the same person going into god it's ok but this one here is not very happy.

i'm making fun of him a bit of the moment a door shut now that basically i only develop a character if i sense a connection with them and their feelings i mean i use store shelf otherwise i immediately lose interest. into suppose saw. or saw 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 fuck it if you can ignore all the rules and live like this come to believe. the wonderful words of not only joy a bag and hands bag can be enjoyed of the quince taught in frankfurt until the twenty sixth of may. some music and some play though on a company really quite far but it's over today more information on all the stories

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