to the planet is what we're doing to ourselves we should be one of them to. the sound of nature and out to the beauty in this world to me zick and to the proof that the spirit of beethoven lives on. and that's me and the news to nancy howard buffett update for you at the top of the hour that's which. stands for. language courses. video. anytime anywhere. w. .

and. it's hard for me to understand whether the way we behave with nature changed from the top in time to our tired but as a human race i can say that we have been we've been destroying nature. from a census of the whole topic it's on the news every day. so there is a venice but nobody is bringing about action. and a whole systems are based on always meeting. was that really listening was almost they put out the orders. there's

a moment is the moment when you're done with the horses. if. i am convinced that musicians can have a very important impact on people they can influence people actually music inspired people in so many ways and musicians how we need speired by nature like they're taught 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 and the pastoral symphony i think reflects his greatest

laugh which is make sure. you have the openings gentle melodies 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 bird song and yet at the same time he didn't want it only just to be painting as he said he wanted to be feeling among. it's not just

a replication 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. where. 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 or however 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 and 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 it's impossible is a composition which i absolutely had my own and something that i've known for a very long time wonderful surgeon even at a wonderful recording so 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 or try to view it in my own we. simply because this would be like pretty much the mother of all of you know compositions when it comes to nature. as they do 2. thank you religion. for are possibly one of boston. was.

i mean i think through indian instruments i express myself through indian music so that's why when i had to express myself through beatle in space or lend my new i do not make of abortions of songs very often in fact it's extremely there 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 in tomorrow. thank . you were. both of the. little my name is betty jean. singer i was born and raised in ethiopia betty is actually my stage name and my real name is will try to 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 from my last name in the game. i tried 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 an role model very. good. this is not this is. not you did not. do. nothing. then you do see.

when all those of us out there to find out what we do know and that although we are not getting a lot of that and there. was substantial in this part of him in soccer. and in fact and then far as you know moving for funding i think they are because on the end if they move stuff one of these credit up on the kookery the new minocin to go in for a trip to the most a person no surprise come on those musicals because thawing complement us going to them during the week on the double. because they're concerned about. their moons are local stop us on the commercial sounds. you know because there are you know i mean 3 crisscrossing person. you come close. it

was. just so. don't you. just settle down. yet but i. get. some sense. but. the news of the. niter has always provided a cue throughout musical history with taken

a lead from the world around us. my name spread 3 i'm a stranger and i'm a composer of the old a play a conductor yeah musician. as a composer i do feel strongly linked to composers of the past. i'm incredibly inspired by what someone like beethoven achieved it sort of drives me for sure and beethoven possibly more than to spend any other composer of the past because his pieces have been models for me in more direct wives and many. straight 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 that flows this feeling of to and fro that you have in the piece. i lived here in this area in the sunshine coast in noosa 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. passed for some from his movie 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 all and you know it's it's been programmed together with beethoven's

pastoral on more than one occasion. which as 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 they home from school coups in the slow movement 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 that you put a cold so that it has maximum the face and you know fiercely and that 1 7. and the other birds are on spring from the home team. this is a direct. the direct feeling old. well we can hear outside bird singing happiness that's honestly installed into him. so we have had the 3rd movement where we really get out an insight into beethoven's humor he did a case to the jovial and fun people in the countryside. to

some a beautiful area really. i know it's the sort of. hello we are at lake in iceland my name it's almost my name smushed over the last one my name is always on my name is oscar and to be $88.00.

many people that we play for have been here already and they experience this in wyoming we have here that's beautiful to hear of somebody hears. something related to our country in our. nature isn't only the rocks of the month there's the lakes and rivers it's also the people and i feel 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 it is it financially. the 1st question issuer spit it burning for

doing this with. the yard. we tried to be extremely democratic on the spend everybody can stuff any song at any time and play however they want to play and the rave feeling that you have for individuals or all can shape up to do the same amount of effort.

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to. keep the are they to suit the most yes. i feel horny i'm also and was you know i look at a minute because it was almost only endorsed by that day they are more to their fans i said i don't run it's up. to. the budget. cuts.

when i started off as a musician many years ago in 1909 when i was 19 years old i started of 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 a 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 list now. it was just a realisation that you know that what am i doing with music and 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 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 falling all over the world basically. everything he's 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 here in the 1st violins this this chief g. flat it shows something's not quite right something's happening something brooding

. or. and i think. i can sense the climate change since my childhood the changes. is here. the countryside is affected with the fewer and fewer rainy season we have so there's drought and it's not just drought sometimes it's flooding. it's scary it's really scary. it affects our daily lives you know 6 to be put on the table it affects the air we breathe and affects

the children that are going to be born. most of the 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. a little league player. and the population is growing of course people need to stay a shelter but then we shouldn't forget that nature is part of our shelter. in

the time that we lived here we saw quite a lot of change i mean a lot of places where we'd 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 would be amazon as far as you know land clearance rights internationally were concerned. was when you. saw it that point something quite fundamental in the piece happens and i think for the 1st time we feel the sound of a tree being chopped down. leaf.

2 of the sun time it was important for me city dweller that i have always been. to recognize there's no point also in sighing that everything that man creates is by definition bad and only a natural world is good. i certainly think that music and the arts also more generally can. actually build a bridge between humankind and the natural world.

to. present us to look like a song plays more and more so. less but so no substance in the currency enters this route that authority or the lot of records would not put our lives in our bureau he would see that getting a call on via you know kiran. explode there must. be out of north of the swamp the most on yours nor school is secular more than a hen think. it's. a good. thing also we have no live that i mean made us live that one of those will that is

my thinking you list back i mean us if there's a song that i'm polemic beto pensacola by you're probably michael moore is the name only that i mean no no you're ok you know it all blowing them. also into their entire lives lost somebody and police just because focus our top c.i. you know that i'm going to put us on ice the whole renewed mature holiness but there must have been in korea going to be an american silence a strong. yes . if innocent bloomberg. is in a different sort of than the young when someone just runs. as an upper limit the

gun in that you know made it so. young. in the us is that we don't use. the word. the evil. 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 storm. yes.

but the reason 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 or soft clean our hearts 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. few months ago we had 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. do. it was one full day that was

dedicated it was a working it was a monday and nobody was working and. everybody was planting trees everywhere and i was. really happy to be part of a. part of something green for a change. it's own new for us but i mean this is something we have to it's like i said. the climate change is the affecting us directly so it's a must think tank. and . i believe that music can be the catalyst to move people in an emotional be from

a venice to action. i perform to large numbers of audiences like 20000 people 40000 people 100000 people. come to the front of the body in line with this song look at the concert about me. to get on that journey of being humans we have forgotten that we are not the only species on this planet. is that i don't match up tomorrow should be one of them tomorrow. 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 songs of songs for children because i believe that

the songs that we learn during our childhood songs that we remember forever. i believe that the education system is absolutely failing us right now because from the soul a absolutely believe that children are born with empathy children are born with kindness children are born with environmental consciousness with what we teach children is basically easing that out of them and if you're 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 riki and you can tell me what

your name is let's go from here to there i mean is that. 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 fault of 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 change is 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 waste but it is actually how much the planet can afford.

we can always do better with waste and consumerization 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 this award that it takes to make one teacher which you buy and then you maybe read it for a half a year and then you through the when. you're trying not to waste 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 you name it would be good to see in that sound i think it was it was and it was not just ones having their school had a look at it was good to see and pass. the land on to. keep. it on. joe so to post.

i think you can see it in it the i mean the wheel i can just press on us so cornett think one is. just as on the school k. then in bold to class and it's at the point you just. go see the proceeds. go see it. go see the style is muslim this is the only protest then i think it is in the on the n.t. yes they mean nice that those in the him know that and so it is that it was a minus. the cows and all. of that we have most of us lost that one says you in this case and this is either i'm just so impulse to listen.

to. you 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 is planting a tree but be 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 can. expect what. i've seen how music can. change people it 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 today. a layer. i don't think it helps to just say we are bad. yeah 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. there's no coming

back. in one moment oh i k i keep inside north so when one of these we in the southeast there's was the sales you know. go in tall and then you can sums us and. we're all in this together and because we're together we we can survive. it's a moment. it's a moment when they learned to listen to you from the midst of that it's.

and then you know everything's going to be fine and yet it's not enough or better because you could have just left but no you have to go through cycles yes to show us everything again microcosmos. and just when you think i've understood it he finishes the piece that i am. come or. go to africa. hygiene measures 'd during the corona crisis in rwanda is expensive 'd and disinfectants are virtually unattainable. 'd 'd my young businesswoman has decided to improvise. in her distillery she produces disinfected to. kill in africa. in 30 minutes on d w. story

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