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are lucky not to go not only will not will not do that he may get them to get a new quote the defense a lot i love it. even after i got out by thanking him for the for a half hour. for a change so much for classical music.
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if somebody comes from another planet earth and to what is the human civilization what you have to say is better to play than once and for me. that is an evidence of the realization it is like the baton on its legs and non-money a mental monument. teodoro occurences star conductor
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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 is in demand around the globe including the salzburg festival the world's most celebrated event for classical music. caresses and his russian orchestra musical at cana are among the big needs. it's 2 days before their concert. good morning. but.
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they're not. but. the point with the name symphonies that is very famous but even for the people the know very well the symphony is little bit undiscovered. because inside the symphony exists a very certain space that is not. wide open. everybody is there.
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you need to kind of revert leash and i kind of used to do tend to species it's not so easy. should. be set prosecution. you show. me. there's a pleasure this guy going into jail early to get a. vision gets a glimpse of. you know who's going to send.
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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. tandon 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 coral 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 beethoven here you have to pass there's
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there's this spoke about tradition that what was to do with all those tradition common to beethoven is here then. here it gets too complicated. and then one day i was thinking to myself forget it forget about this forget about forget everything forget it just to go to for them here's the beethoven calm all heart to heart i too eye ear to ear. 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 they hear this just the winds and the blog. moving that's the people in the city. but to me this is the beethoven i thought at that point that. you can feel the whole world is vibrating and the music from beethoven actually
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had all the cold there already and i'm trying to do cold the beethoven the rhythms 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 on to the paper. and once i get started then all while .
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the. 'd 'd whole 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 dinner musical cut the lawn a concert hall. who who who who could. help. like who i am gone.
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i'm however. i have a piano i play the organ. and. 4th of. thank you thank. you. thank you thank. her for her am at an. inner. thank you thank you are familiar and sometimes if i think you and him are mad at my mouth why you come from up there are dark matter here oh well if not the death benefit. everyone can throw that monkey south.
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there might improve our lives i asked family thunder of course your barrier at fun fun fun with a barrier and one of our things that combine people to cover up i'm buying half a minute one of our few pieces of foss the well i thought the ability to unify people talking about we libertad i am being asked one.
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i. do. every year an extraordinary event takes place and osaka beethoven's 9th performed with no fewer than $10000.00 singers. she's now come up to me singing for the 1st time in this choir made up. non-professionals
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. for the past 20 years the mega concert has been conducted by japanese my stroll. 'd 'd down to. i mean. you cannot sit down where i don't know the height they must know. that they must look at us including me from where you. sell us or do you want to ask you can hand them out and you have a sense of what i did says in the book could see some day when they're not going to come out.
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guy didn't this get off on there are and i could do no wrong. he hones in the thought there are problems i know say or think your problem kind of shorts on with i know there.
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me. got out your arms in wa and all. i do in this local call are going to see their son on a crowded mall and i could deny it's a bomb call akbari yeah see the clock says. they're scum all jubilant i've got me a lot he wanted to read but i couldn't i didn't dare not i quite i think 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 a museum and a memorial. for. those who think it ought to go for their own needs could be quite amusing get some sort of credit with a new book some. good shit on them come to find out that he died it's their choice i was supposed to so it was dead but sitting next to them in the canoe that's going to flew out the no interest with time in the numbers of this time comes if that's what if you did typical kid sitting on the bus athena must be a christian sadistic for the full do not do feel the need for just some of their discipline for us to know that they have committed a mysterious ability. than those from the whole ordeal do with all. that all of this was i sure didn't need to submit a $1000.00 i don't question the post just so it and i'll just say about
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a half dozen father nick i cannot stand or come off the t.v. . that. there. should be. traded.
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beethoven dedicated the 9th symphony to a powerful ruler the pression king treated vilhelm the 3rd. time and again the work has been played in a political context. in 1942 vilhelm conducted the berlin philharmonic in a performance of the symphony to mark adult hitler's birthday.
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in the audience propaganda minister yours of goebbels and other high ranking nazis . beethoven touching the hearts of the heartless. during the cold war division of germany the knights 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. of 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 nines in the eastern and western parts of the once divided city. she changed the text from joy to freedom. to. i. some experts believe that may have been the word shilling originally wrote.
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since 1905 the oed to join melody has been the official anthem of the european community now the european union. it stands for the common values of the member states freedom peace and solidarity. to avoid favoring one language over any other and instrumental version was chosen as the european anthem. of the. sea level might it if. it was it's in that need to believe that. the latest stuff. was really miserable isn't it is us the us. this is of course was
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the whole mayan it then unknown to the body since mine and there's. a. surprise it did flew out that let me go see it the emotional must be to see evil as it did feel most americans lissa of ways i live here call me to just give them a huge you very political power supply of. those. though for you killed them over something like you saw as the. difference in ma that would be a bit of a. the orchestral symphony combined east is an extraordinary success story.
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it was founded in 1994 by a former pilot who had taught himself music. with around $200.00 amateur 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 is now and has a very special sound. a memo on terrible middle of life on terror very much for taking. the author. lisa. she commands the poverty. i don't feel. he she.
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does the most you. feel the. gift emotion me. we. can make what. else saw yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah shows up that music. like that to mark what. i mean. really. those are just some of the funeral balls on god on a sunny day all to get this sort of caught up in what it is it's a service on your part or the committed to it is the this and the citizens of the
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us and other bases that acquittal got them in a court. significant enough that the whole they have all of me will you know that this is a good that the citizens had only just the. 2 of you for sure but i think. i. think i need to get up in. 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 in a lot 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
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i i. i i i. feel myself a little country of egypt and it's human and i call for the cliff through the can you give and take washed their blood must. have went to man mean dish the sinless one school of us were going through good luck to want to see . my new job on pluto i had a new survey by the way to conduct and all them will cost. you sure look what scott did to going to morning edition look it's good to talk still thought it was
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a man on the end honest about this was not a car let their neck in the center and it got. them there no one else could get that store ranch and he still got all us around us it is a lot sean they don't have many don't look at your man russell was a model not up to when i asked. a dodger can tick 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. version. 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 free to.
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beethoven shortened it and moved around some of the lines added a sentence and using schiller simple words he composed a symphony with worldwide appeal mention. because you give them. and then. always is. just like that. if you want to make. sure that they've got all articulated like god that we all need to sing. the. cross hairs they're gonna fight for yet the thinking. that you need to look at if you play me like let's make a hole on the side out than this up and i'm going through my intellect right it is leading me to think you could be fickle pizza. man sheen yeah yeah that was
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fired out of the meter yeah i don't. know why i was there except you know if there are read out on it at that hotel he sat on. my hands. remember that he was a little bit of a bitch it didn't look right back to me that's a pretty big fat. was . that.
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was yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. see. this all full view for a song to feel false close also just get there. judge to tell that they will dissolve all of you've all called me that the least of all dr g. sick is all of the total. dish was a desert it was a pos this is it more like a bit of unfair legal aid goes to their villages said the vet and they're either submitting a particular day they're happy happy not to go to a night program. you can actually grow new hampshire grass i'm actually there so and it. cannot be done in the drying up you're not got anything cunt done eat so no sooner than it was to say not a day you could go to c.n.n.
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or more than i thought i did want to cry didn't you just striking up a normal scrabble man isn't about she bird is not about. the words of that is not even about the story of the person that she is completely different composers to sing from but this is very touching for of course all the stories is to defend my name team from the guts. but let the dog. is the lawyer and the uncle cutlass of what. was i was.
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i. last. yeah. i. was. i was. i. i. think. 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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