bassinets of what i mean really dick she could have been a lot of people both for over a mention on the 4th time on the whole of the most recent economic looks rather nice the bottom of the fannies at the last and dragon was cornered as a call. to the real books on. the organs is the most philosophical is from the least spontaneous and from. your never forget the moment it gave your goals bonds. this is what music of all. classical music that transcends borders pianist olga shops is equally at home with

tchaikovsky and techno. a mexican conductor a danish orchestra and a unique relationship. and the queen of instruments they are again more versatile than many might think. but 1st to cuba where horn player stero willis caught up with some old friends. hello and welcome to hop on the q i'm sara willis and exactly one year ago i was here standing on this where singing dancing and playing my one with the musicians of the hub on the lyceum orchestra. for. the bill. to the. polls.

it's a very different cuba than it was one year ago because of the pandemic but i'm really looking forward to seeing my cuban musician friends from here and finding out how they have spent this last year. of january 2021 a much quieter to have than a than usual face masks a compulsory everywhere long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the street. i'm back here for a concert with the have banner lyceum orchestra to celebrate our project mozart he mumbled the concert will now be streamed without an audience but we are simply happy to play together again and meet with the. conductor jose antonio mendez padrón known as pepe arrived in style for the 1st rehearsal. hour.

but. i said oh yeah today i feel good because we are hassling but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else yeah and there have been movement off but if there really is terrible but you begin to value things differently sometimes we have so much work on so many concerts that we were only exhausted but i think this is helped us value more what we have like being able to play music than you know whether it was very mumble to have a chance to see each other again. here one year after mixer team member is the best

thing that's happened this year and you're really happy to be with and make music with you again in the more than simply to be your together again. since then i haven't really missed it but that they get water how is have an a for you with no music on the street do you enjoy it as a musician to have silence or do you miss the live music of the necessity which you can hear it has its own sanity when you can't use anymore you feel empty inside and you think something's missing. missing. out of the all and have your continue concertmaster of the orchestra visit me for a cafe seato at the apartment i stay in in havana. now that i know somewhere you the girl that. was the. week for cubans music is like how they really

you know it's necessary for a life. i mean we need it too but i have a feeling cuba is very special if it is in your bodies you need to dance you need to sing you need to find out how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play document it wasn't. really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing this passion we have and we play. enough several projects we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro we don't know pres got the land we have our courts at. every week we had 2 to 3 concerts and this is a human have nothing to do except practice. it simply. not something we. during the lockdown have you won the talent to combine it with an online cuban music competent. with his version of boss shack on i had no live music

yet here and so i asked her if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live for you think. nothing else in the market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have the state salary so we're very lucky. and. 'd you need the calories matic saxophone star of mozart lives in a suburb of atlanta. and.

here is a. few. nice to have you here thank you the book of the tell me how it's been here for you and one of them we aren't used to anything like this. we learn and create new music. new productions and also now everyone has their own so sometimes i go to my friend's house and we play music in his bedroom. there's not only for us. it's wonderful to be on a have on a rooftop in the winter i've really enjoyed being back here but it has been sad to see the difficulties people are facing here right now but the positivity of my cuban musician friends always shines through and today i even saw a little sign of hope the 1st live street music i have seen here. on this trip

enjoy and. friends. time to leave cuba. we're meeting up with a russian german pianist ships. the small classical music. is among the world's best known young pianists she's played in major concert halls and prestigious festivals. thank you. ships has recorded. in 2017 she caused a stir when she released an album of piano covers of tracks by german techno band

scooter. we catch up with her at a recording studio in cologne we want to know how she feels about the distinction between popular and classical music and what made her records. the band's quotes are asked. crimmins person i to do this album and this should be something critical to our songs but the rest do what you want we started to create. piano pieces very different from what schools are doing. and but the melodies are recognizable and after the album was released people were asking me. things like hey you're classical pianist you're playing classical music and now you're doing something new why are you doing something new this is nothing

new basically what we did there it was taking a melody and doing something new creative with that like a variation or transcription and this is something what composers did in the last 5 centuries. and this melody. was originally compulsory 1929 and france what we did with this melody. like with. 'd

old john a lot of us all pianists know the piano concerto number one for a pitcher called ski the 3rd movement which is the famous beginning. and this is a very famous ukraine and folk song which is in russian called reason we divide and that means iran come out let's dance together and then they were dancing all together and you see the most famous. piano concerto which was performed today on all the stages and someone is basically for song ration if you can say this is 50 percent folk music i realized how wrong we use that the word

classical music a precautious piano sonata which. this is not classical music this is modern music or if we talk about. this is from on sick music this is not classical music and. this. this is classical music. i do play ready. i do play classical music but i play also romantic and contemporary music and also

some barack on renaissance pieces. different melodies are going from different centuries from different countries and how they are inspired different artists to do something new but in the end all of this. doesn't really matter because what music is about is the motion you will never forget the small one that made you cry and you will never forget the moment that gave your goals bombs or make you have the special memory of the special emotion because because we never forget emotions. and this is what all those us about this is what music is about.

for lots more emotion and great music this is her you tube channel d.w. classical music which g.w. presents brilliant young musicians taking the concert halls and opera houses of the world by storm as well as the reigning stars we all know and love. d.w. classical music has attracted 5000000 visit if you visit to you'll find lots to keep you in thrall from portraits of extending musicians to fool and concerts. you'll find award winning t w documentaries about beethoven we have lots on him mozart verde bucknor and other famous composers was. one

playlists is entitled music a maestro and is presented by the mexican conductor along drugged up. in our next report we accompany her to copenhagen for a performance with the danish national symphony orchestra with a work that is rather unusual and start from music. in that you deem it got better but get the back to the back of the din that this might sound like jibberish but it's how drummers and percussionists talk to each other don't get. they can also use the analogy see get their point across. have you ever played tennis or golf but went on with this that's all of them if you find things at the

right. mr clinton dr long the telepathic is working with a caution section of the danish national symphony orchestra. and it's rare for these musicians to take center stage like this. but. i always come up come 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 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's exactly what i wanted. something that's a bit more hip swinging than usual the danish national symphony orchestra plays a piece being missing composer sylvester. the natural delist miles

it was written in 1039 as a film school. over a dozen percussionist performed for once and shining the string section. when you put in a big supernovas to even as a percussionist we used to just have the pulse and but in a big office 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 used to do that just once in sort of the same time so that it needs a lot of a lot of ice a lot of years. gradually other instruments join the party the peace builds to a glorious crescendo. the professionals are 3. has turned the normal history hierarchy on its head. to sort of this is sort of

a master class that we'd like this because in classical music normal rhythm place to the melody has not this time the military has to play to the reason. that. i move like the black sheep of this. because i am not a classical trained physician i am a self-taught jazz guy. along 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 what we do because it's all intertwined 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 and ask you know how do you do this and what else can you do and what other options out there and so i'm happy to meet you that's with while you were in the band i mean. the memory is that you're thinking lee raymond. so the band has picked up a new member and a new center to mark meets mexican and the result is pure it's you can see. the. dark. in germany where the organ has the name 2021 instrument of the deal. 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

organist needs not only the right shoes. but also to focus their mind and body playing the organ is a bit like a work out. the organ is 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 he's i consigned to the universal i call it transcended is it attempts to encompass all of human experience. the organ is the biggest the lowest and 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 churches. instrument reflected god's omnipotence with its infinite seeming sound killing heights above and beyond the everyday world. can you still hear. this is the smallest. it's this big and this is how central can you hear something. but the senate 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 in exercise and when i'm. asked unaided by the instrument. club you actually touch a key in a piano he goes ping ping your name and your natasha if you touch it here is a current of. which means an ear is my material that some believable scientists and then on the ground. divided cameron 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 a virtual also on the traditional pipe organ to a musician with unflagging passion for his instrument just walking to the console to this day feels fills me with a kind of deep anticipation and excitement and nervousness and a readiness as though i'm coming to the moment that i was made for. he's taking it upon himself to breed the instruments 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 r.d.o. 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 a negative thing it of course requires a lifetime of dedication carpenter 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 note is played every few years. thanks. to its stance the organ is an instrument that lives. i'm certainly. always beginning again my my journey with the organ with this organ insurance to is does and all grew well it's beautiful isn't the organism instrument which doesn't just give itself up to the player you know would have to watch it has to be conquered watch and or you feel like a conqueror. when you sit down to play the organ sectors rough one for i know our troops are just. and now finally the organ has been nominated instrument of the year a crowning glory for the queen of instruments. from

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