traill scene. and mozart. reporter sara willis revisits a very different cuba a year after the project started. jewish music composed between 933 and 145 was mostly hidden away and forgotten as the nazis were in power now 75 years later with a project called laban's melodeon all melodies of life the clarinet is no bench him self the grandson of holocaust survivors has brought this music back to life i'm one of the resulting concerts is in a synagogue here in berlin on the occasion of holocaust remembrance day. this is a melody of life. peace was composed by mario medley when he was a very young man living in florence. a short time later mellie was murdered by the

nazis as melody his being rehearsed for a holocaust remembrance concert led by berlin's nimrod ensemble. from mine if i mean it's. some of my family members survived some of them were murdered in the shoah so these melodies are very sentimental to me it's all very personal for me. it's also personal for noor. the leader of the nimrod ensemble he's dedicated the levens melodeon project to mario mary and other composers. this is the young man. and his family mario many didn't survive. but some other parts of the family did and it's very important for them that their memory of the young will be remembered

and will be commemorated. was not then shown lawmen and the nimrod ensemble rehearsed their program at the apostle paul church in berlin. was. the product is about those people and their life and how in a terrible situation. in hell they managed to create something and when i spoke with some of the survivors of the for the families they explained how those metal does help them to survive the war home form. this is the 2nd concert in the laden's melodeon series with more planned to follow in the coming months the lutheran church is a partner of the project and secures the financing. shifted to the history of the

show is present on every corner here and now there are some 30 to 40000 young jews living in berlin who are grandchildren or great grandchildren of survivors and have come here from israel and we can interact with each other as normal neighbors like before us. nor financial naaman's from tel aviv he moved to berlin 12 years ago to study the clarinet he also has ancestors who were victims of the holocaust but for him and his ensemble this project isn't just about remembering the fates of individual people. 0 whose music together was the stories is a. testimony for dexter i mean nation of the jewish people. when we play the music. we open a subject and the discussion in the car. discourse

off today's world. laban's melodeon our music against forgetting and for a better world. this talk of museums reopening soon here in europe because they can manage social distancing but what about mass entertainment fear. polls and clubs have suffered for almost a year now and the only license the end of the tumble seems to be vaccination then perhaps your basic rights of freedom of movement will be returned with a vaccine passport but is that a solution we've been talking to some cultural managers in germany resulting in some rather surprising opinions. going to a rock concert a bar or a club is not considered an essential activity so it would feel a jet of organizers to demand proof of saxon nation before people were allowed to attend their events medical experts estimate that between 70 and 90 percent of the

population would need to be vaccinated for herd immunity to be reached that requires the majority of people to choose protecting not just themselves but others as well but the idea of excluding those who don't get vaccinated doesn't sit well with everyone not even those whose livelihoods are affected by the lock down. talk as for us it can't be a question of somehow x. clued in one certain growth and including others just so we can get back to clubbing. is that with completely contradict our whole purpose. that's the quote of 3 d. if. it's not enough people are willing to be vaccinated then cultural institutions would have to remain closed is there really what they want we ask. cinema owner. to do so every sector has to decide for itself i wouldn't want to discriminate and

i would rather continue with restrictions than divide people into 2 groups the disciplined and the reluctant. discipline you. can the cultural sector really afford to remain in a limbo of semi normality with hygiene guidelines and social distancing rather than favoring the vaccinated and perhaps returning to full houses do we really want to embrace through plastic sheeting and only enjoy the arts at a distance well into 2022 a vaccine passport debate that risks dividing society even more is not an appealing prospect says the artistic director of the national theatre of news if you're not made up by there are some 400 people working here including all the artists because that's one of if i want to get the orchestra members back into the orchestra pit for instance and say that anyone who wants to play here has to be vaccinated then i start dividing people here and i wouldn't do that for his discipline or if you're a one to those 2 so what's the solution appeals to common

sense don't seem to be effective enough at the facts or is covered denial lists and other conspiracy theorists are not in the majority but they are focus should dodgin ones responsibility to the rest of society have consequences after all no one needs to go to a restaurant or the theatre. feels this kind of argument could be counterproductive he thinks the debate is evidence of desperation among political leaders. from these are formed of the moment i'm not in favor of that kind of separation we've been having the discussion about limiting rights and freedoms on so many levels and sometimes to such an extreme that there's no coming back from it and and the political radius of what is actually of virological pandemic is so wide. that i think we really need to be careful zocor scoreboard most are for those who think of them as a version of course people in the arts sector continue to hope that hard line anti

facts are is will eventually realize that the answer is not anti sentiments but a little jack too many people resist however that a vaccine passport may be unavoidable. last year sarah willis french playing with the berlin philharmonic and d.-w. reporter realized a personal dream she traveled to havana cuba to meet and work with musicians that on a project for d.w. called mozart a mambo exploring the connection between volved about dance and the latin dance of bamboo which originates from cuba now she's been back to a choir to cuba to catch up with her musician friends from one year later. january 2021 a much quieter havana than usual facemasks a compulsory everywhere long lines for food a total lack of tourists and absolutely no live music on the street was that after . i got back here for

a concert the have an ally seen 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 an amazing weekend they made. but i said oh yeah today i feel good because we never had a sing but otherwise we're all stressed because of the situation here and everywhere else. creech in the broader viola and have your continue concert master of the orchestra visit me for a cafe c 2 at the apartment i stay in in havana and i was invited to have. some review the current. week for cubans music is like the green you

know it's necessary for the life. i knew we needed to 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 say how did you feel in this time where you. couldn't play doesn't do much when you're really sad because we felt every day that this energy was missing this passion we have and we play. enough several projects that we have the orchestra with pepe we have a string orchestra with maestro. we have our quartet. and every week we had 2 to 3 concerts. i had nothing to do except practice. simply. innocent people during the lockdown have you won the talent online cuban music competition with his version of boss shack on i had no live music yet here and so i

asked have you know if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live you think you are one of the one. in the market at the moment we have nothing to do suddenly everything's cancelled again but we have the say salary so we're very lucky. and. 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. and all the stories from the world of op some culture on our website at d w dot com slash culture but that's all for this edition frank's watching and do join us again. from the.

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bridge conflicts but in europe there's a sharp warning whoever accept money from the new super powers will become dependent on it the commitment of the shaking the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world to be fair to the board game. china's gateway to europe starts feb 19th on d w. a little bit. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden has signed a raft of executive orders as aimed at cutting rising temperatures as worldwide the order is a stablish climate change as a major national security and foreign policy issue for the u.s. biden said his country.