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to. her and. are lucky not to go not only quis will knock him they give them they get a new coat see what i'm looking. for. even after doc out i thank you for that for half. the money. for a change so much for classical music. great
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if somebody comes from another planet for them to know what is the human civilization what you have to say is better to play than one symphony. that isn't evidence of visions or beliefs asian it is like the bottom line it's like bees and not one human to monument. teodoro occurences star
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conductor rebel of the classical music world is often described as a tyrant and a genius. born in greece he started his career in russia he studied in st petersburg and became artistic director of the opera houses in over sabean's and paris. today he's in demand around the globe including the salzburg festival the world's most celebrated event for classical music. caresses and his russian orchestra. are among the big names. it's 2 days before their concert. good morning. to. one. of.
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their knowledge. but. the. point with the 9th symphony is that it's very famous but even for their people when they know very well the symphony is a good bit undiscovered. because insides symphony exists a very certain space that is not. quite open. everybody is there.
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here in the music department of the berlin state library lies a 200 year old treasure. its value is incalculable its significance universal. its a musical score an autograph in the composer's hand of a piece that unleashed a musical revolution and continues to move and inspire listeners to this day. ludvig fun beethoven symphony number 9 in d. minor.
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this masterpiece is about 70 minutes long. its climax is the famous 4th movement finale owed to joy with words by the poet. everyone knows these melodies they convey a seemingly simple message. but in fact to unravel the mystery of the 9th symphony you have to travel the globe. 10 don is a composer of operas orchestral works in film music in 2001 he won an oscar for his score for crouching tiger hidden dragon. he grew up in rural china. later he studied in the united states and his career has taken him around the world . his current project is called choral concerto 9
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a work intended for performance with beethoven's 9th symphony the piece has been commissioned by the beethoven anniversary society in bonn and the royal philharmonic society in london for which beethoven wrote his symphony 200 years ago 2 2. sometimes you feel when you want to reach by the phone here you have to pass
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there's there's this bloke that tradition there what do you wish to do with all those tradition common to beethoven is here. here it gets too complicated. and one day i was thinking to myself ok have it for gad about this for and above all gather forget everything forget it just the girl to for them to use the paint off and calm all heart to heart i too i mean you. 200 years ago. for from the eyes symphony. he was trying to talk to. everybody. of course he may
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not. imagine. he was talking to me i mean 200 years later i'm standing here in shanghai. listen. that's the heartbeat of shanghai and here there's just the winds and the blonde. moving that's the people in the city. but to me this is the beethoven i thought that that that that that. you can feel the whole world is moderating and the music from beethoven actually
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had all the cold there already and i'm trying to do cold to beethoven the reasons jump up bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. and. i dread the beginning of such grand works i said and i ponder and ponder i have it in my mind for a long time but it won't go onto the paper. and once i get started then all's well .
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'd 'd hold whitaker is on a mission to transmit music through other means he has a music degree from oxford university and works as a teacher and motivational coach he was on it with the prestigious o.b.e. award by queen elizabeth. the field the music project has brought whitaker to barcelona where he's working with musicians of the mahler chamber orchestra and hearing impaired children this musical encounter is taking place at the palau dylan was it like at the lana concert hall. math. hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. pal.
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like you i am done. i'm. i have a piano i played it on. 4th of . thank you thank. you. thank. her for. her and yet. thank you are familiar and something not in anything to any money out of my mouth while you come from up there are down from up your man well if not the death benefit. of the one kind of monkey man south.
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there my thinking about muzak as a family courts or barrier at fanfan time when the barrier and one of our things that combine people to cover up i'm by having my one of a few pieces of foster well after not a ballot to unify people talking about halfway libertad i'm being asked one.
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i. mean. every year an extraordinary event takes place in osaka beethoven's 9th performed with no fewer than $10000.00 singers. she's in oh come on it's only singing for the
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1st time in this choir made up. non-professionals. for the past 20 years the mega concert has been conducted by japanese maestro. am down on. the. i mean. what do you see down where all the you know the hype they must. be there not that they must look at us in food and eat for you. so much that they're the annoying i ask you can hand out communities insult what i did was in full could see some day if we're not going to announce the.
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guy who did this go on there are and i could do no wrong. he hones in the thought there are problems i know say or think of your dog bob and carlos wants only to know their.
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me. got out your arms in wa it all. i didn't this one cock already did i see there is a lot of other more and i could deny it's abominable call macari yes the docs says this just that they're scum all jubilant off got me on what he wanted to read. a lot and i'm quite happy to there we must. conductor utaka saddle has come to the provincial city of no ruta it was here that the story of the 9th symphony in japan began. the enthusiasm for beethoven is
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mingled with stories of war time. in 1914 japanese troops conquered the german colony of tsingtao in china. 4600 german soldiers were held as prisoners of war around a 1000 of them were interned in a router. but the prisoner of war camp offered the germans some freedom. they had a bakery a newspaper and cultural events. to orchestras provided entertainment. in june 1918 the prisoners staged a big concert the 1st ever performance of beethoven's 9th symphony in japan indeed in all of asia for a long time this chapter of german japanese history was forgotten today it's
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documented in the c.m. and immemorial. for. those who think that sega chordal it's clear the music gets into a pretty good i know your son. has you know noncommittal find out but he tell you it's there when this was supposed to come so it's a little step not to engage to the new it's kind of like the no interest with time in the muscle just because if that's what if you did. good so they got invested soon enough did they should stick for the full do not do feel the need for just so much of their discipline for you to know that they committed a serious ability. and those are all voted with a lot. of them up to sort of i sure didn't need to submit a toughest foreigners i don't question the post because what i just sent out
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and. there. they took the. time and again the work has been played in a political context. in 1942 vilhelm sword conducted the berlin philharmonic in a performance of the symphony to mark adult hitler's birthday. in the audience propaganda minister yosef goebbels and other high ranking nazis.
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beethoven touching the hearts of the heartless. during the cold war division of germany the ninety's became a kind of substitute national anthem. from $196964.00 east and west germany competed together at the olympic games with athletes from both countries forming a single team. beethoven as a symbol of unity. in southern africa the racist white minority regime of radiation the country that is now zimbabwe made the melody of the 4th movement its national anthem. beethoven's music misused by oppressors.
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in germany. chinese students protested in tiananmen square in beijing to the strains of the 9th symphony. beethoven as an expression of hope. after the berlin wall sell later that year the symphony became part of the soundtrack of german reunification. the american conductor leonard bernstein performed the nights in the eastern and western parts of the once divided city. he changed the text from joy to freedom. to. i. some experts believe that may have been the word shilling originally well. since 1905 the oed to join melody has been the official anthem of the european
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community now the european union. it stands for the common values of the member states freedom 2 peace and solidarity. to avoid favoring one language over any other and instrumental version was chosen as the european anthem. of the. seeds of the might if. there was a thing for that me to believe that. yes stuff. really was also feeling this was a real test such as the most. basic physical model of the whole mind it then unknown to the body since mind there's. a. surprise
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it before while vellum is equal c. is of a muffled musky who see evil as if he did almost all members of his lissa move ways i live here call me to just give him a cute movie political over sick fuck. knows. the phone to kill him over something actually this was the. response in my. that'll be a bit of a. the orchestral symphony combined east is an extraordinary success story. it was founded in 1994 by a former pilot who had taught himself music. with around $200.00 amateur
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musicians he built up central africa's only symphony orchestra. the democratic republic of congo has around 85000000 inhabitants and is one of the poorest countries in the world. to this day the orchestra rehearses and performs in the capital kinshasa. here they tell them as a very special sound. a memorable non-tariff only the law lives on to very much and for thinking. of it. the awful. way she felt. she commands above it. i don't feel. he she. said to be able. to see the. gift.
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a lot of new going over to see the deal if you never get to the settlement i just. wanted you for sure but i thought. it was i need to get up a choir rehearsal with a 1000 singers in 2 weeks 10 times that number will perform in the big concert staged by a television channel. there were $15000.00 applicants they had to be chosen and a lot of each of the singers has paid the equivalent of $700.00 euros to take part this is their 1st rehearsal with conductor you took a subtle. that's not just right just a. story to know where you could try to keep me out. but
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store ranch needs to look up all of us of our city a slow song they don't have any well look during the summer as a model not to when i asked. a drug joke antique sacred song in a symphony in the old keys. with those words from 1818 beethoven outlined the basic idea for a new symphony years later it would become known as his knights. who. never before had there been a symphony with a choir and vocal soloists for the text he used a well known poem written more than 30 years earlier and or ode to joy by 50 to the . beethoven shortened it and moved around some of the lines added a sentence and using schiller simple words he composed
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at least. in part 2 of beethoven's 9th symphony for the world various interpretations of this masterpiece around the world and what it means to the musicians who perform it.
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