previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab a lot of mission was. impossible but. the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery let's look at. least birth. starts feb 11th d w. the order is the most philosophical instrument the least spontaneous and from the. lure of a forget the moment it gave your goals bonds. this is what music is a ball. classical

music that transcends borders pianist olga shops is equally at home with tchaikovsky techno. a mexican conductor a danish orchestra and a unique relationship. and the queen of instruments the organ 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 a q i'm sara willis and exactly one year ago i was here standing on this where singing dancing and playing my horn with the musicians of the hub on the lyceum orchestra. for. the.

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 helium and finding out how they have spent this last year. of january 2021 a much quieter habana than usual face masks a compulsory everywhere long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the streets. i'm back here for a concert with the have an ally see him orchestra to celebrate our project mozart the mumble the concert will now be streamed without an audience but we are simply happy to play together again and meet we give it a. conductor jose antonio mendez padrón known as pepe arrived in style for the 1st rehearsal.

but. 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 they have on move on and off but if they're really it's terrible but you begin to value things differently sometimes we have so much work on so many concerts that we're only exhausted but i think this is helped us value. more what we have like being able to

play music to go where the most i remember to have a chance to see each other again here one year after mozart the number 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 morning simply to be your together again. because in time i really missed it but that they get that now how it happened after 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 than a city which you can hear it has its own sun when you can see yours anymore you feel empty inside when you think something's missing. missing. out of the your lot and have your continue concertmaster of the orchestra visit you need for a cafe c 2 at the apartment i stay in in havana. now that i know something you the courage. that.

most of the. week for cubans music is like how they really you know it's necessary for the life. i mean we need it too but i have the feeling cuba is very special if it is in your bodies you need to dance you need to sing you need to chill out how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play the mendelssohn we were really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing his passion we have plenty. enough several projects we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro we don't look as governor lamb we have our quartet . every week we had $2.00 to $3.00 concerts and incidentally women have nothing to do it's a practice. that i said simply. during

the lockdown have you won the talent of an online cuban music competition with his version of box shack on i had no live music yet here and so i asked have you if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live you think. ok at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's counted again but we have the same salary so we're very lucky . and. 'd you need

the calories matic saxophone star of mozart lives in a suburb of havana. and. you. nice to have you here thank you the book of the tell me how it's been here for you know over time we aren't used to anything like this to. be learning 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 the havana rooftop in the winter sun 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 you. 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 the fall. sarah and friends. time to leave cuba. we're meeting up with a russian german pianist. the small classical music. older she says among the world's best known young pianists she's played in major concert halls and prestigious festivals. thanks. 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 quarter asked us very kerman's 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. but the melodies are recognizable and after the album was released people were asking me. things like you are 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 we're composers did in the last 5 centuries. and this melody. was originally called polson 929 and fronts what we did with this melody. like with.

'd old piano 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 we do we divide and that means iran come out led them together and then they were dancing all together and you see the most famous. piano concerto which is performed today on all the stages and so one is basically for cool 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 room 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 broken renaissance pieces. different melodies are going from different centuries from different countries and how they inspire different artists to do something new but in the end all of this. doesn't really matter because what music is about is the emotion you will never forget the small one that made you cry and you will never forget the moment that gave your goal spawns are making 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 a ball. for

lots more emotion and great music this is her you tube channel d.w. classical music which. b.t.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 knew and loved. d.w. classical music has attracted 5000000 visit if you visit you'll find lots to keep you in thrall from portraits of extending musicians to fool and concerts. you find award winning t. w. documentaries about beethoven we have lots on him mozart verde gardner 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 meat company her to copenhagen for a performance with the danish national symphony orchestra with a work that is rather unusual x.r. for music. in that that you've got back to the get the back to the bit about 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 cigarette their point across. have you ever played

tennis or golf but went on with this that's all of them if they find things at the right of the room. mr clinton dr delap era is working with a caution section of the danish national symphony orchestra. to think that. it's rare for these musicians to take center stage like this. 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 was

a bit more swinging than usual the danish national symphony orchestra plays a piece being missing composer sylvester us. delos miles it was written in 1039 as a film school. over a dozen percussionist performed for once and shining the string section. when you're playing a big symphony orchestra or even as a percussionist we used to just have the pulse and but in the beagle 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 just. gradually other instruments join the party the piece builds to a laureus question. the percussionists are 3 telecaster has turned the normal orchestra hierarchy on its

head. to sort of a this is sort of a master class a week like this because in classical music. written 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 i'll sample. because i am not a classical trained physician i am self taught. yes. 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 is not simply.

most of what i've learned i've learned from 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 with while you were in the band i mean. the memory is that you're thinking we re. so the band has picked up a new member and then you send them our meats mexican and the result is pure exuberance. darker. in germany where the organ has been named 2021 instrument of the year. its

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 1st resists 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 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 sounds stealing heights above and beyond the everyday world. can you still hear. this is the smallest but. it's this big and this is how central can you hear something. but the senate is there. yes. hutch 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. fascinated by the instrument. and love you and she touch a key in a piano it goes ping ping you. if you touch it here there's a current of yes which means it is my material that some believe that the sun can then on. to invited 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 cell 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 a deep anticipation and excitement a nervous nose and a readiness as though i'm coming to the moment that i was made for. ease taking it upon himself to free 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 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 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. the performance began in 2001 and is scheduled to end in 2641 node is played every few years. thanks. to its fans 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 player you know diving off it has to be conquered watch or if you feel like a conqueror when you sit down to play the organ vip sectors where 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 instruments. 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. the

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