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. god willing to kill. egypt it. is hard for me to understand whether the way we behave with nature changed from the tovan time to our time but as a human race i can say that we have been we've been destroying nature. from a census of my top and it's on the news every day. so there is a red mist but nobody is bringing about action. and whole systems are based on always needing more. so almost every listener was almost there put out or is.

this a moment we're going to be out of here is the moment mr boss is. to. leave . i am convinced that musicians can have a very important impact on people they can influence people actually music inspires people in so many ways and musicians have been inspired by nature like beethoven who was inspired by nature. beethoven it's one of the great giants of music history in every sense. we know that the walks that he went on for hours and hours were the moments where he condensed his thoughts and his emotions.

the pastoral symphony i think reflects his greatest love which is nature. we have the opening this gentle method is gorgeous melody which is just strolling in the countryside everything's fine. it's very interesting the beethoven in the pastoral symphony he wrote quite a lot of text describing the scenes the scene at the stream the storm the birds all and yet at the same time he didn't want it only just to be painting as he said he wanted to be feeling emotion it's not just to replicate ssion of something that's

beautiful it goes inside his own soul. i do believe music has an enormous power and i think nature has an even greater power projects that bring those 2 together are a great great opportunity for mankind to rethink where we are we are. a i. mean. we've never been in a greater position to influence the future and that can only happen if all of us do something however small our large that is. but the one option we don't have

is to shut the door on to 2 to turn off the music that's not possible. i'm pretty good i'm a musician i'm an environmentalist and for the last few years of dedicated my life for the sole purpose of creating environmental consciousness through my music i'm very much indian and i live in india. us and everyone. agrees with you that is so possible is a composition which i absolutely admire and something that i've known for a very long time wonderful surgeon even without a wonderful recording so let's let's get started as a how are you someone in the back of my mind for many many years it's always been

there try to you know make my own words enough it i'll try to reveal it in my own we. simply because this would be like pretty much the mother of all you know compositions when it comes to nature. as they do. thank you religion. for up are so you thought possible. was.

i'm an indian i think through indian instruments i express myself through indian music so that's why when i had to express myself through the dolan's pastoral in my new i do not make of abortions of songs very often in fact it's extremely that but in this case it was very very natural for me to do it 2.

so we're moving the old family piano and we're just moving it from i got asked to the musical summer house we're going to be a corking into one on. one with our home. little. little my name is betty g. you can sing or i was born and raised and with you. betty is actually my stationing my real name is because i get on a bit long i know i've always wanted to be an international artist so my mother

called me beatty at home so i took j. from my last name in the game and. i try to use music to create awareness of the nature of what's happening i use my fame whenever people see me doing something especially the youth because most of my listeners are they knew they would like to imitate what i do so i try to be and role model very. good this is not is. good enough just to. let you do it.

when all those of us authors will find out when we can go on the phone and yet not yet again you know a lot of. them. was substantial as part of a massage. and in fact i'm going far as you know moving forth on thing i think really caught on the end if they moved up front of this crowd to get on the kookery to learn new nose and to go in for a trip to the most impressive mostly protocol models mostly because christophe complement your screen and i'm going to become a lover. because of concern of. their own so i took a stop us on the commercial sound. you know because there are you know i mean very few response in person. you know oh. it was.

just so solid i. don't you can't do it i just said. oh. yet but. he. said it's a. good. way . to lose the guy. niter has always provided a cue throughout musical history with taken

a lead from the world around us. when i'm spread 3 i'm a stranger and i'm a composer of the old the play conductor yeah musician. the full . as a composer i do feel strongly linked to composers of the past. i'm incredibly inspired by what somebody like beethoven achieved and it sort of drives me for sure and beethoven possibly more than to spell out any other composer of the past because his pieces have been models for me in more direct why it's in many. states open is never just what you see and what you hear there's so much more behind him and i think the pastoral symphony in caps relates or for beethoven it's. we have this

2nd movement here again very very gentle and here you have the scene by the stream by the river and there you see the maastricht of beethoven how he's able to convey water the flows this feeling of to and fro that you have in the piece. i lived here in this area in the sunshine coast in between $22004.00 it's just a very very special part of the world. in that atmosphere i did respond

by writing music in particular piece for possible since nick. pastoral symphony was nearly 20 years old i remember pretty early on i couldn't resist the kind of irony of the title but it's a title that then i have to say captures the imagination because of its beethoven link i'm sure and you know it's it's been programmed together with beethoven's

pastoral on more than one occasion. which is you know wonderful i like sharing the program with beethoven you know he's good. thank. you. composers feature birds and bird song because it's this unbelievable world of invention beethoven's cuckoos in the slow member of the pastoral symphony not the newest of innovations at the time but obviously also. very telling you know it's also the placement way of you put

a cold so that it has maximum the face and you know you're sleeping in that 1 7. and the other birds are on spring from the home team for. this is a direct. direct feeling old. all we can hear outside birds singing and happiness that's honestly installed into. so we have few of the 3rd movement where. we really get out an insight into beethoven's humor just a case of the jovial and fun people in the countryside. to

some a beautiful area really. and it's the sort of. hello we are a lake in iceland my name it's almost wheels on mine i'm smiling still got a lesson my name is thomas i was on my name is oscar and we're 88.

many people we play for have been here already and they experience this environment we have here that's beautiful to hear if somebody hears. something related to our country in order to. make traditional rocks of the month of the lakes and rivers it's also the people and i say that there's a kind of a feeling here but it's a kind of a big family but everybody helps each other and the 1st question is never how is this it financially going to work the 1st question issuer spit it burning for

doing this with. the yard. or and. we tried to be extremely democratical in this band everybody can stuff any song at any time and play however they want to play and in no way a feeling that you have for individuals or all can shape will be to the same amount of effort.

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when i started off as a musician many years ago in 1909 when i was 19 years old i started off doing commercials for television and radio for various brands all over the world i was doing music for every brand and the computer so then i had a huge get your shift in around 2013 where i started realizing that these big brands have understood the power of music that music is such a powerful language not just for communicating

a message but for retaining that message deep into the consciousness of the listener it was just a realisation that you know that what am i doing with music why am i constantly selling products with music and there are things that i feel really strongly about in this ward and i need to write music about this. india is obviously a very complicated country we have a huge population and we have a huge number of problems when it comes to the n y meant starting with the air pollution mitigating the effects of climate change we've got deforestation we've got species extinction we've got the plastics problem so we've got a lot of problems in india. but i would say that the biggest issue in india is the part that everybody has that somebody else will make a difference. so and that is a huge problem that we need to address. i would consider myself to be just a musician who is trying to make everyone fall in love with the word basically.

playing. everything he spent the 1st 3 movements building up this beauty this idea of nature of here we are suddenly broken and it's broken in such a dramatic way that it brings us away from the painting somehow beethoven puts in a time out it's not just beauty it's reality and the reality of danger and this interval that he writes in the 1st violins this. is chief g. flat it shows something's not quite right something's happening something's brooding. her.

was. our. place i am. i can sense the climate change since my childhood that changed us. it's you. know the countryside is affected with the fewer and fewer rainy season we have so there's doubt and it's not just drought sometimes it's a flooding. it's scary scary. it affects our daily lives you know 6 to be put on the table it affects the air we

breathe in affects the children that are going to be or. most of a new generation have breathing allergies. life is really tough life is very expensive people have to focus on earning their life. but we have to create awareness of the nature of what's happening. because right now we're heading towards the wrong direction if we don't change. planes. league. game. and the population is growing of course people need to stay a shelter but then ration forget that nature is part of our shelter.

i. i. i. in the time that we lived here we saw quite a lot of change i mean a lot of places where we go walking one week and it was being cleared the next and in the early 2006 had a severe right of land clearance and it was sort of up there with the amazon as far as you know land clearance rights internationally what concerns. you. so that point something quite fundamental in the piece happens another for the 1st time we hear the sound of a tree being chopped down. least. at

the same time it was important for many city dwellers that i have always being. to recognize there's no point also in sighing that everything that man creates is. by definition bad and that only a natural world is good. i certainly think that music and the arts also more generally can. actually build a bridge between human condom the natural world. and the.

poisonous it's only plays more and more so. let's put a solar system symbol can see in through this route that he thought he ordinarily of course would not put our lives in our bureau he would see that getting a call on via you know kiran because he explored the months yet nor the slew of the most on yours nor is it secular more than a hint that. the but. then also we have no live that i mean meet us live that one of those will that is

my thinking list back i mean us if there's a this when we get on a limb better peers are going to buy your probably michael moore as they now knew it at least until now you're ok then they had all you know in them. also into their entire lives lost somebody and police just focus our top c.i. you know that i'm going to put us on ice the whole renewed mature holiness. of the muscatine included going to be entered when my friend simon says long. to. the ng and yaquis income. it's been amazing bloomberg. says in a different sort of the. sum which assigns. a must as an upper limit the gum.

you know made it so. differently as a story told us. the of. the evening. news. it's so terrifying that it is like a horror movie it really is a musical offering a counterpoint to what we feel when we experience a storm and we all know what it's like one is hoping the whole time will we survive but we get over the story.

of the vision that i have left the future is pretty dark unless we do something about it i really think what we did to the earth is what we really have in our heart so we have to purify our stuff clean our heart and then we start cleaning and then we we get to see what we have done because i feel like nature is a reflection of ourselves what we're doing to the to the planet is what we're doing to ourselves we. humans the goal we have this tree planting movement i was part of it because i miss the green area i miss green in my life and i wanted to create a well. i could. believe. it was one full day that was dedicated it wasn't working it was

a fun day i know but it was working and. everybody was planting trees everywhere and i was. really happy to be part of it now part of something green for a change. it's all new for us but i mean this is something you have to do it's like i said. the climate changes be affecting us directly so it's a must be back. to me believe me. i believe that music can be the catalyst to move people

in an emotional week from a red mist to action. i perform to large numbers of audiences like 20000 people or 40000 people 800000 people. 6 is gone living longer the more the environment this long look at the concert about mean chose. to cut along the journey of being humans we have forgotten that we are not the only species on this planet it is the landfill don't matter tomorrow should be one of them tomorrow cause i try and empower each and every audience member to showcase to them that they themselves can make a huge difference within their own lives so that is what i do through music and then the 2nd thing that i do is through education of children. i created a project called my own songs know my old songs of songs for children because i believe that the songs that we learned during my childhood

a song that we remember forever. i believe that the education system is absolutely failing us right now because from the soul a i absolutely believe that children are born with empathy children are born with kindness children are born with n.y. mental consciousness with what we teach children is basically easing that out of them and teaching them. to be more capitalist we're teaching them to be more materialistic we're getting them to be more consumerist so let's introduce

ourselves i'm ricky and you can tell me what your name is let's go from here to the money. and. i believe that the education system needs to change we need to create a new generation of children new generation of humans and other well more impact the kind of climate change the problem that is affecting all of us ok now the thing is that what you have to understand is that climate change is the for doing my generation but the problem is that you people are going to be suffering that we are trying to do our best to change everything we are trying to do our best to make things better. for you and for your future generations but you have to understand what climate changes and how it came about and more importantly children who believe that money is not the end all you know money is not the deciding factor as to how much you can consume and how much you can we just but it is actually how much the planet can afford.

we can always do better with wastes and consultation wasteful living can always do better. and it's great to see i mean old old kids growing up in this environment where they have to talk about how we need to water it takes to make one teacher which you buy and then you maybe wear it for half a year and then you throw the with. the trend of the waist and you know. try to make them count.

whether music can have a larger influence and create some kind of shift i don't mind. but it is interesting how it can start conversations and i think that's where the arts can ply a significant role because it's kind of once removed from the toxic world of politics. long as you continue down play. it would be good to see in that sound i think it was because i was not just ones i knew that their school had a look at it was good to see and pass. and.

joe so keep you posted. i think you can see it in the i meant they must be with you i can just press on us so corny think one of us the only person on the school. and even born who cries and is it the. whole seed proceeds. goes to trial is muslim they say only protest and then i think it is in that on the n.t. they mean nice that those in the economics know that and so it is that it has a minus. the cows know that i'm being misery and the good. of the we have most of us for the last time since you in this case in this is eat them just so impulse soon is.

all you have to do is just make it your lifestyle and do new things every day and create awareness all the time say something if someone planting a tree been part of it if there's anywhere any interview mention it so people can just hear it and from that they can start questioning because start saying we need to work on this we need to focus on this what should we do what can we do. explain. i've seen our music can. change people can incite dialogue and i think dialogue is our only hope really for the future. there's something about

the pastoral i think when at the end of the last movement the storm clouds have disappeared and this beautiful melody comes and it's a feeling everything's ok everything's going to be ok and i think we all. hope for things to be ok and so i think that also relates to us to her a layer. i don't think it helps to just say we are bad. yeah sure we cause problems let's sort them out. we need to empower every single person like mahatma gandhi he had the famous saying that you know be the change you want to see. if we keep on. living life the way we are living it's going to be the end that's it there's no coming back. in one moment though. no

sovereign reasonably in. the sales you know a name for thought oh in thought and then you can sums us and. we're all in this together and because we are together we we can survive. it's a moment. it's a moment when they learned to listen to it and they're going through that it's.

and then you know everything's going to be fine and yet it's not enough a bit of because you could have just left but no he has to go through cycles yes to show us everything again microcosmos and just when you think. i've understood it he finishes the piece. goodbye sausage and a loaf rejects. big changes are underway in the food industry much more money now are the major food companies changing to meet new demand. and a less meat consumption relation help the environment and join us as we explore even germany. made in germany. and 30 minutes on d w. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian. even

before the coronavirus pandemic lebanon's economy was plummeting through the floor joining me from beirut this week is the country's foreign minister nazi 50. years ago shades just me for assistance what guarantee is good news that his government do any better than the previous ones conflict so for. a few minutes till. i think everything challenging 1st and i make a muslim. so much different culture between here and there somewhat challenging for if. i'm being. an islamist the so i think it was worth it for me to come to germany

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