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 nest 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 greek written in eight hundred sixty seven would not seem

there read someplace that it's neither classical nor pop it's his very own version . or whatever of the colors i would like a classical period and ours someone told me back then you're never going to cross or i will say the craze of is no way i don't know why and 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. with before us to go to our top or or to orchestra. it's like it's over their head because it's in

a language or something that 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 i signed in here which concert with one of the biggest you know record labels in the world is like a dream come true from one situation to another. peter victor 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. to see the best so many people or accept others are very 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 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 made this music for the people who like it and i enjoy that luckily there are many people who love to hear their whole. actually made 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 amsterdam this was instead of a honeymoon for weeks they invited the world's press into that hotel suite as that i'm conventional way of trying to promote well paced it was the time of the vietnam war and then she will 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 the couple 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 bet and clearly. still pleas for take off your glasses all said oh no it's me it's john lennon and they're rather arrogant you know or rather a little cool it's leather and then there are yoko sort of the nasty adults are these this young kid is asking is so friendly or just crazy all right all right all right i will do all that and then he took over the grasses and i was able to make you know the only photo. without good as. later when john lennon was asked if the bed 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 leavitt was a few years later thereof 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 would even pull 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 they're go and john lennon went about selling piece 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 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 than that 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 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. long 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 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 actually 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

it's a weird and wonderful exhibition in the couldn't stella in frankfurt not a did joe bag painstakingly make stop motion videos out of the clay models that she creates spag compose 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. or let the 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 miss

on the journey through the mud and confusion with small glimpses of. a forest a big bad wolf a little girl who has lost her way sorry tales we told with a modern twist highlighting forbidden desires primordial fia's. did you oh create the 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. from look at it.

you will notice it made us i like open up some up for me all these characters a one in the same person. into the plot it's ok but this one here is not very happy. i'm making fun of him a bit at the moment though a shining on that basically i only develop a character if i sense a connection with them and their feelings i mean i use store shelves otherwise i immediately lose interest. into suppose saw. or saw 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 fuck it if you can ignore all the rules and lots of discounts of being equal. the wonderful words of not only do a bag and a hands bag can be enjoyed of the coins turned out in frankfurt until the twenty sixth of money.

some music and some play dough and it can be really quite frightening but it's over today more information on all the 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 fall by.

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