d.w. documentaries about beethoven they have lots on him mozart 30 bucknor and other famous composers. one playlists is entitled music a maestro and is presented by the mexican conductor along. in our next report we company her to copenhagen for a performance of the danish national symphony orchestra of a work that is rather unusual and start from music. in. the back of the den that this may sound like jibberish but it's how drummers and percussionists talk to each other. they can also use the analogy sic at their point across. have you ever played

tennis or golf but went on with this sort of them if i find things at the right the rhythm. mr clinton doctor. is working with a caution section of the danish national symphony orchestra. it's rare for these musicians to take center stage like this. i always come up with a plan because i don't know what kind of situation i'm going to have what kind of level of the players commitment time schedule so i have to come with a plan that whatever happens it will work but then it's great when we can take it much much further and you came and said you know that's very good how how we were going i said but do you think you should be a bit more flexible i really love that contribution because that. exactly what i

wanted. something was a bit more hip swinging than usual the danish national symphony orchestra plays a piece by missing composer so best or rather well to us the notches below is my yes it was written in 1039 as a film school. year it doesn't percussionist the form for one spoke shining the string section. when you're playing a big symphony orchestra even as a percussionist we used to just have the pulse and but in the big o. has like this always some small adjustments we have to do small adjustments all the time so that's quite difficult because we have 13 players that we used to do that just once in sort of the same time so that it needs a lot of a lot of eyes a lot of years. gradually other instruments join the party the piece builds to a glorious question. the percussion

and our 3 telecaster has turned the normal orchestra hierarchy on its head. to sort of this is sort of a master class a week like this because in classical music normally written place to the melody but not this time the military has to play to the reason. that i'm like the black sheep of this. because i'm not a classical trained physician i am a self-taught jazz guy. a long struggle a parent sees that as a positive. i love it when we get the sense from all those types of music it's so enriching and many times i think that if we we need to be classical musicians need more of your wealth to do. we do because it's all interplay and it's not so for.

most of what i've learned i've learned from the players much more than conductors who are great but as i go in ask you know how do you do this and what else can you do and what other options are there and so i'm happy to meet you that's where while you were in the band i mean. come on or is that you're thinking we were. so the band has picked up a new member and a new center to mark meets mexican and the result is pure it super. dark in germany where the organ has the names 2021 instrument of the year. it

sound is closely associated with the church but it's more versatile than that there's a reason why the organ is often referred to as the queen of instruments. and organists needs not only the right shoes. but also to focus their mind and body playing the organ is a bit like a workout. the organism a larger than life experience he cursed the prince's possible transformation of the material into spirits in christ something like tone plus color over time these are the signs of the universal i call it transcended as it attempts to encompass. all of human experience. the organ is the biggest the lowest am the

highest the loudest and the quietest of instruments it consists of pipes bellows and keyboard. the organ dates back to ancient times during the middle ages monks started using organs in church as. instruments reflected god's omnipotence with its infinite seeming sounds killing heights above and beyond the everyday world. can you still hear. this is the smallest but. it's this big and this is how subtle can you hear something. but the sound is there. yes. used to be

a cultural manager but now he leads a very different life. practices the virgin every day. it's like meditation an exercise in where i'm. fascinated by the instrument. and kind of you know if you touch a key in a piano playing ping yeah i mean you're an atrocity if you touch it here is a current of happiness which means it is my material. some believe that the sun leaks and then on the. divided kammen carpenter to come to berlin from new york. known for his unorthodox style he's one of the fastest organists in the world. he's also created his own digital organ which doesn't need when styles and sounds are transformed into binary data.

but he is the virtual so on the traditional pipe organ to a musician with unflagging passion for his instrument just walking through the console to this day feels fills me with a kind of a deep anticipation and excitement a nervous nose and a readiness as though i'm coming to the moment that i was made for. east taking it upon himself to breathe the instrument from the shackles of religion . the idea that the organ comes from church is christian propaganda it's not only

about playing the organ but also about expanding our view of what the organ is which of course includes giving the organ identity outside of church and also in people's minds as being possible to be something other than only church. carpenter commissioned the international touring organ so he could play in other settings during the pandemic he's played free concerts all over berlin performing in the open air. he understands people's reservations about the organ. i personally struggle a lot with the organ i always have but that's not necessarily an a negative thing it of course requires a lifetime of dedication carbon dear is not the 1st to distort the sounds of the organ and turn them into something almost unrecognizable. in 1987 the composer john cage created a radical piece called as slow as possible which is currently being performed in

eastern germany. to perform its began in 2001 and is scheduled to end in 2641 node is played every few years. thanks. to its spans the organ is an instrument that lives. i'm certainly. always beginning again my my journey with the organ with this organ assurance to is does and all who . is of the organism instrument. which doesn't just give itself up to the players you know we're going to love it it has to be conquered watch or if you feel like a conqueror when you sit down to play the organ vip structures are graph and one for are not altered suits. and now finally the organ has been

nominated instrument of the year a crowning glory for the queen of the instrument. from her valma and berlin from classical to mambo that's it from art's 21 this week see you next week until then good bye and i'll feed a day in. her.

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