well 120 filmmakers and musicians created this immersive tribute to the riaa and. welcome to arts and culture for about a century now some people have promoted the theory that the fun beethoven had black ancestors the rumor is largely based on portraits of beethoven showing a somewhat broader nose and darker complection than many northern europeans now this year marks 2 and a half centuries since beethoven's birth and in time for the occasion the rumor is back but it's not just about beethoven it's about an overdue conversation about racism in the world of classical music. beethoven really black the debate is being cool seen through social media of light but this theory isn't new. u.s. civil rights fight amount can lift it it was even the topic of this $969.00 peanuts

comic strip. i think it would be really held areas if we were able to find definitive information that beethoven's black because look all of these marketing park departments they're going to be in complete terror they plan this entire birthday season around a black man so this would be really i think it would be fantastic. american conduct of brandon keith brown lives in berlin and works with renowned orchestras as a black conductor he's somewhat of a rarity both in europe and the u.s. we don't see black conductors we don't see black artists i think it's funny you know the orchestras don't play black composers so if they tovan is indeed black we have to stop playing in the last months discussions in the classical music world country to don't know why is classical music still by and large so white.

classical music divide society by race and class like no other genre and i say if you base your business on a very small group of white people your business is that music is actually white supremacy. branding keith brown has been very public in his fuse these details his obsession experiences in concert halls in numerous interviews and articles. i don't honestly i never go to concerts makes me feel like an alien like why is he here it's always very suspicious. so what has to change. we have to learn to become comfortable with being uncomfortable that's the only way that we can succeed in this it's not by representational alone it's not by trying to make beethoven black necessarily it's by learning to become comfortable with people that we haven't been socialized with. racism is

everywhere ink. looting in the elite world of european classical music so can classical music provide a solution. we need something spiritual that will connect us and allow us to share in pithy and music is the only thing that does that. if beethoven did have african ancestors would it change classical music build bridges across society the questions and maybe as interesting as any answer. and my colleague mike your crew has been looking more into this story mike and before we get into this any further is it possible sure it could be possible because his family is from flint and belgium and at times it was occupied by the spanish army and it's believed that in the spanish army there were also soldiers from north

africa that the rumor has been around for very long time now for about hundreds of years as far as we know contemporaries describe as very docs frizzy hair and black eyes you see what they meant in these paintings but again scholars have always refused it theory and if you follow the hashtag beethoven was like then you find out that most of the people are interested in. right now i've also been seeing some tweets by black musicians and they're saying why are we focused so much on beethoven's possible blackness when there are classical musicians and composers are definitely were who maybe deserve more attention and they are right because they are so many exciting personalities and stories a friend of beethoven for example was black he was a little loose and even wrote a piece because he was so good in playing the by elaine just bridgewater was just

named the son of a black servant he even played for the british king later he died and poverty and there was another one. what a name he was the guy in france in the 18th century only a composing was always he was also the the teacher of money antoinette and here we see samuel called rich taylor he died in 1912 his pieces are still played today although he's british he's set as a leading role for many americans just 3 very all the examples. they all mates classical history and so even this. is not black they have their place in the classical music scene so black people in classical music are absolutely nothing there thank you so much mike a cougar thank you. now if you've seen the netflix series an orthodox then you've

heard the music of berlin based d.j. catnap or sometimes dark electronic tracks provide the sound of youth and freedom the main character estie finds in berlin after she runs away from her alter orthodox jewish community in new york before the series started catnap already had fans now though she's got a following. catnaps trance melodies and electronic beats feel the club in this scene from an orthodox it's a party unlike anything at cif the main character has ever seen before. the argentinian d.j. and musician has lived in berlin since 2015 and she's been making music since 2010 and has released 4 albums to date. the kind of music that i may i have no idea how to classify it it's

a mix between. the dark side heavy electronic and also the meaning of the songs the message is always very personal and very deep and very emotional. catnaps music is heard in a number of scenes throughout the series on the track during the main love scene was her piece called funda after the streaming of unorthodox the song was the most searched track on the captions and i think that this song was used very well in this scene it made some people cry and that's what i want. people. that shared stages with leading acts of the electronic music scene like the german jew i moved to select all. in 2019 she performed at the sonar festival in barcelona.

and at the 3 h.d. festival in berlin has a unique musical style but says she's open to all kinds of music sometimes they ask me like what is your music guilty pleasure i am not ashamed of music that i liked. things that i like i mean there's nothing to be ashamed of people are like oh not go see this don't say that you listen to what he's got out of bed this but in your house before you know what it's great i'm having person because that was news today this series on orthodox gave catnap an international break story to new a.p. damage is out and offers a change of pace for him many new fans around the world. and we're heading out of the club now into daylight's to check out what's touted as europe's biggest and most powerful waterfall but how to capture switzerland's ryan falls in

a piece of art multimedia artist be out tanya has come up with this massive project . powerful water masses and foaming spray the rhine falls portrayed in a 360 degree work of art. visitors can emerge themselves in these images of the art installation reality the rhine falls in 4 seasons the project which brings the waterfall to mind has been set up as a panoramic projection in an industrial hall right above the real waterfall close to the swiss city of shop homes on the rhine river plunges some 23 meters into the depths of a site that through. to this day the swiss artist grew up here. through 5th dollars and for 15000 years so you know all this water has been flowing down here but it's to be treated it's always an impressive site so it kind of humbles you on the top. it has such an hour but it's also tranquil in

a way. some places are really a shallow and soft goods of ice. they are tony only those installation aims to show how the phones change over the seasons. the out of your the immersive or the immersive art projects. we set up 4 cameras each taking a photo every minute. i photo that's about $2000000.00 pictures over the course of a year old to be an adult. a 40 minute film resulted from the vast number of pictures as well as drone and underwater recording 28 projectors create a panorama show in a specially designed room it puts visitors in the center of the event. around 120 filmmakers musicians and sound engineers worked on the project a huge undertaking for tonio no lasting nearly 3 years now visitors can experience

the rainforest in a completely new way. as is that this is a it's a synergy that we as artists have the means to show what people might not notice standing here for a brief moment you've got a bomb a band afterwards if you experience it through these technical or testing it made us you say hold on i didn't see it that way at all you got me so that is it. they are tony orlow has added a new chapter to the history of the rhine falls visually stunning and full of poetry. for more culture news check us out on facebook and twitter at d.f.w. culture now i'll leave you with some freshly sprayed bourbon art from a disused train station concourse in stuttgart germany the building will eventually be replaced by a mall and a 4 star hotel for now though artists have taken over they call it the secret walls gallery thanks for watching arts and culture season.

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