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from the central organ and the book can control several others. long before there were concert halls or oprah houses music was played in churches including in the mission as people from home book called their church for centuries this was the 1st symbol of the port city that's a lost soul from a far. the church organs of sun michael's this is where our musical journey through hamburg begins the city has a rich musical history and an exciting present i will take you to the many clubs across the city and to many other places. i love to be turning into an avatar to attend a concert. i'll take
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a tour through the how the district of san poly where the beatles polish their skills. and i visit the molotov one of the most famous clubs in the republic. my journey takes me from the old landmark the mission to the new land mark feel our money the concert called by the river opened in 2017. we filmed in march 2020 before the cool no lockdown so i was able to fulfill a long held wish to visit tom work. because you can see from the brick base this was once a warehouse it became a concert hall with this spectacular glass structure. that morphed escalator cameras you inside at 82 meters it's the longest in europe.
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just. like all visitors i started with a tour of the viewing platform at the plaza. this city and poured stretch out below me. who want. to use. their money off 1st guided tours to visit us pressbox month tim show me the building. was not good techs have stock in their mobile created and yours are well sidelines in the stairwell and for you. and there is a story behind the shape of the balconies as well. as if. there's something fishy like a fish tale. but the architects also call them tuning folks who choose not to be a musical reference.
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here we are in the main concert hall with 2100 seats. behind us as the so-called white skin it's important for the acoustics because it just reflects the sound around the whole you know from us there's. many love the sound here. but some dollars. there are a few who feel for some to be too analytical come on. the vienna philharmonic for example could probably play in the antarctic and still produce a warm sound. so i always think it's not about the room but rather the way music is playing and how people perceive it. in the beginning it was
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almost impossible to get tickets because everyone wanted to see the building. these days it's the musicians and the program that people come for. now you can buy tickets for the great concert hall quite easily because last minute yarmulke yes even last minute still a somewhat risky business. on the other hand there are always allotments of tickets that are returned not on prosecutes houston i see it every night at the box office if your stand there trying their luck and are thrilled to get a ticket. i'm lucky the vienna philharmonic will be performing in hamburg tonight i will her sing before the concert.
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this summer is the best time of the year to is a tomboy it's one of the city turns into a huge concert hall here a few tips for all a colossal music fans. on the steps in front of hamburg filler money people are in a party mood they've come well prepared for this open a concert. and so i did see i don't want that you should bring something to sit on it's golf and something to eat and drink the system sort of thing the times you did but if you brought i d. past. show to have read why.
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while inside the elks too many spectators the taking their places outside a surprise concert is being given by members of the national youth orchestra of the usa. then in the alps alone let me maestro wade says but talk. there i. first on the program a contemporary composition. i. i later after sundown the mood grows more mantic. concert cinema is the name of the elbe film and he's opening
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a concert series that's become a musical tradition each summer in his hands the attic city. another musical highlight of the concerts given at city hall by the fillmore nick state orchestra one of hamburg's top orchestras is directed by stock conductor kent they're gonna hear they're performing brahms 1st symphony which some call hamburg's unofficial land to move. but actually you shouldn't thing along but we did after watching the you know my cancer it's really nice even for those who normally aren't classical music fans i should. even during the encore the audience just can't get enough.
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this is so poor and saw your and so reels of this enjoyment of music people always ask what kind of a city is hamburg but i have to say hamburg some musical city. i feel like i've traveled back in time to the baroque period this street is one of the fuel that were rebuilt after the 2nd world war it's worth the composers potter is located and commemorates great names of how it works musical history. felix and funny man the son batali. your highness pam's. endless stuff milo. i start my tour with your highness pam so composed one of the world's most famous
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lullaby is. he was born in hamburg an 1833 and began taking piano lessons at age 7 at 15 he performed for the 1st time later she morphed to vienna where he rose to global fame. nowadays students from all over the world come to play his piano. they obviously do a much better job than me. we continue with philip taylor man and karl philip and while back lol. church musicians in hamburg for decades. this is a model of an opera stage from the rock period at the time this technology was extremely advanced and amazed locals. *
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another technological feat is this self playing mechanical piano is a pretty assessor to look around for. this is an original recording baikal stuff mahler from 905 played off a punched card. mahler was the director of the humble call proffer 7 years he didn't rise to worldwide fame until later after he had moved to vienna. some of you might find classical music a bit too stiff and formal but it doesn't have to be always like that. they found the perfect way to play it delicious. with pizza and.
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singer elaine letter is getting ready for the put cheney evening at hamburg's op or a loft making pizza is just part of the preparations. i was. in the meat got also it's a huge challenge because the pits a must be ready on time and the singer must know when the pits and needs to go into the oven on precisely what note taking to one place and how long it took us to find out what you know you write that in turn was a gigantic challenge he's also got. the preparations a done and the last visit as have been seated at the cullen every concert can begin . was. $100.00 richard noise about belts out oh so let me your it's not put cine but it is italian just like the n.t.
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plus to. mean well soprano i mean is shaping does was. then arias from put genie's opera tosca presented while tossing pizza god. was. a short instrumental interlude gives the scene is just enough time to serve the 100 made pizza. serving as senior chef and way to in the same night takes talent. comes 2 out of 2 2 was the upper lot he's bringing new life to the old ferry terminal in altoona.
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were houses destroyed unesco world heritage site. goods from all over the world she used to be stored here including coffee tea and coffee is. now it's home to about real start ups like a virtual reality company. here but it's a combination of virtual reality and music. that's right and we're here in our virtual reality headquarters on the weekends you can come in here and different virtual reality experiences for instance gondola ride around hamburg. or laser tag and the virtual concerts you can see here. that look like. visitors come in groups of 4 and are fitted with headsets but then meet in the virtual world where they each have their own avatar which allows them to walk
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around freely they can also talk with one another because they're all built in microphones. so i could attend a virtual concert here and how bored and a friend could attend the same concert from barcelona. right. now i want to have a goal for the video headset on and dive into of it's world world. where i meet fabio or rather his avatar yet. i'm they go one. way. or the port of how my boy or the michaud volney trio is playing at a death festival. venues and compare our various interaction points for instance prices bottom here. ok. you know now look up. and while.
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it. does go over a 1000 people have seen that online it's very exciting for the album jazz festival because they could reach a completely new audience normally people would have to be and how to attend the festival now through v our folks all over the world can experience. let's go back there where it's quieter live. but it's all this is also the deceptive thing about a very young many people think it's a very on social media because you're so completely isolated but we believe it's a completely new way of connecting to people all over the world that's never existed before. i also see the band driving through and playing here with the titanic destroying the world. that he comes.
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yeah. all in all it was an amazing experience to all reality can't recreate the feeling of being at a live concert but it can take you to a completely different day mission. to. 'd 'd 'd the. 'd 'd 'd beatles music and of a pop band played by stephanie hempel she always has a ukulele with her when she is showing beatles fans their son polish district. 'd believe it or not the beatles career took off here in hamburg. ready ready ringback ready ready ready ready
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this. started singing and here comes the sun george harrison's with us and do you always start your beatles tours with the ukulele yes my tour as a musical and it's always really nice to sing along with the fans with the guests. and what comes after the musical kick off. i tell the story of the beatles in how they started off here when they were really young 1718 years old it was their 1st official engagement and we go with a fan through some poly to the original locations. only a small and just a red light district with bars there are also many claps. like that in brown. it was here that the beatles gave their very 1st performance and humbled in 1960
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absolutely they were complete amateurs a 4th choice band only because 3 other bands from liverpool couldn't make it with a peaceful center hamburg as a quick fix. for them and i have photos with me all of them still had elvis hairdos . and murmur often goes through the group when i show them this pic 18 year old cool. then we have 17 year old george harrison from humvee here do i really like this photo because folks always said he was the youngest with the biggest head to move you to hers the taller they played the in draft 3 months from 7 pm to 5 am they had composed music yet so they played rock'n'roll songs from the fifty's. and they lived here. this used to be a movie theater and the old the cinema was the beatles residence. they lived in the
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little rooms without windows. they were here until the end of november so it was really cold they had to bathe in the men's room. so they quickly gave this place the nickname the black hole of calcutta. eventually pull the tops and the accommodation got better after the end run the beatles played for 50 nights because like a lot of economic groups. they performed for sailors rockers and gangsters because rock'n'roll came to hamburg with the seafarers back then ships lay of islam much longer and sailors came from around the world the americans and scandinavians wanted live music rock'n'roll but they weren't any good rock bands in hand so they brought them over from england and bands from liverpool. this is where the beatles met star correlate church from pete best drummer.
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next we head to the legendary stock club the venue burned down in the eighty's but a block still lists all the big names who performed here and. guess who played the opening and 962 that's right the beatles by then they were already wearing suits and had their iconic mop top here at. homburg mean for the beatles started their fifties to beatles of the world's most renowned beatle author mark lewis and put it bluntly no hamburg no beatles they performed more here than anywhere else playing for over 1200 hours in the clubs and honing their crowds here they became a professional live band here they met ringo starr the warden here in the quiet there's still the image. as john lennon said we grew up
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in hamburg not liverpool up in her book not live or paul well. it was understocked luck that the beatles performed their own songs for the 1st time stefani plays swan off a favorite. santoli has turned on its lights people arguing in front of the club's. every hero one of the biggest music events in europe takes place here. if you are interested and you come and trendsetter you definitely have to visit in september for the band festival during 4 days there are plenty of concerts with musicians and bands from all over the world.
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this. concert hopping in hamburg 600. concerts on 100 stages in just 4 days much more than the most avid music lover can manage. the 1st fast of all took place back in 2006 the annual event has grown to become one of europe's biggest pop festivals. here it's less about big name acts than discovering new ones from around the world. concerts lively we go to the different clubs and see who turns out. we were just in
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hollywood someone was playing piano it was really quiet tones were switched off and you kind of have everything d.j.'s on stage there's something for everyone. i'm going to the mall itself to meet the young british band. i joined them backstage. the i'm a james. and i'm thinking. this is this is this is true and just 2nd 10 homework right yeah it is yeah how do you like it here wonderful the last song we were here we had. a typically for your incredible audience engaged in excited orleans and i hope we'll see something similar tonight you know that would be. a big step but how morgue oh yeah so so so just around the
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corner is where they park this over and over again or we played the show again what exactly is the story. they just played. they just played. crawford's or this. right it was it were. we actually haven't heard of this before well photographer was explaining it to us and she said something that she said they became the beatles there and went on with so what a great way to put it that's fantastic yeah there are a lot of history happening here yes and on this day i'm going to have the look the real me. now by. the way the fine using torn homework and steer that was shot all this before the outbreak of the curling up on dammit in march 2020 let's hope that soon we will be able to gold little clocks and concert halls all over the world again without any war we. take care and see you soon.
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