tv Arts.21 Deutsche Welle April 5, 2021 8:30am-9:01am CEST
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square singing dancing and playing my board with the musicians of the have an ally see i'm strong. for. her. 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 dishes friends and family a provider and finding out how they have spent this last year i.
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i you know the governor has really closed out when you see that have on his most famous barbershop it's not a day to. the city has a completely different feeling on the streets than the last time i was here but nothing can ruin my joy with my horn on my back i'm on the way to rehearse with my beloved have on a lyceum orchestra in their home a beautiful old cuban church called san felipe in old havana. it's very emotional for me because it's the 1st time i will see them in a year and i have been dying to celebrate the success of our mozart project with them.
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it. might. worry you. it's so nice to be. memory memories you know pepe the conductor of the orchestra rise in style for the rehearsal. i have a present for you yeah it was very heavy in my suitcase but we have for everybody. a cd. and. we work number one in germany number one in england number one in the us in the
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classical charts it's amazing really amazing so you can look you can look later and think. we're over her sing a horn concerto by mozart far coming concepts no one knows yet if we'll be able to play the concert because it's a coronavirus restrictions but we have to be ready just in case. 2 our are. was.
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make sense only a. little bit oh you are. the fantasy i'm pretty hot if they saw me today or whatever the fuck. i was have been there 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 i want when i feel like it the which i could be in as is only your that if you go on the know your. dental b.s. i could give 5. of. us to the rehearsal i wanted to hear more about how. my cuban musician friends have
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spent this past year all the restaurants and cafes are closed so i invited viola player great and concertmaster have yet continued to my rented apartment in havana for a cathy see to. everything. to see you my there is this to be everywhere for cubans music is like the green 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 lay out how did you feel in this time where you couldn't play it doesn't seem only to know that for years and good luck in a fight. club here comes the i mean you can sort out the mamelodi appropriate to. take on baby and what i don't
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know where that one might really look at how we learn they're not coming in there though and don't say same when i said most people can see it to be saying a certain sort of mentally young daughter meant to know something we could get this . was an. amazing you'd know. i had no live music yet here in havana so i asked him here if you would maybe play something for me up here so at least we hear something live you think one of the one pound fish. and then i can. come and sam in front of us comes along. and then i'm off. doing an essay. and.
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c members of the orchestra have told me that for them the new normal is getting up early to stand in food lines until the rehearsal started 2 pm every day they are absolutely exhausted by the time they start to harass. one of the biggest differences i've noticed here and up on the other lines there are lines everywhere the cubans call it luck or not they stand in line all day long for sometimes they don't know what is in the shops the main thing is to stand in a line because they'll be something you can buy it's very well organized it may not look it big usually they know who the last person is in the line and who's the next person they're all wearing mark you have to wear a mosque outside here in havana but i don't see much social distancing going on. in
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the mall. was the. marry her. same old us a. cuban schools are all closed because of the pandemic but at the home of junia. the charismatic saxophone star of mozart the mambo music teaching continues. was one of the sort of work 2 2 2. i was longing to play some cuban mambo again so i invited junia and 2 other mozart the members stars olivia all the legal rights and i agree up to a spontaneous jam. session up on the roof of my apartment.
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we have a few days off from or harassing and we don't even know if we'll be able to continue because of the restrictions so i decided that although i love mambo it's time i learned about some other cuban don says picayune yet and i set off for the beautiful porch town of speeches about one and a half hours from havana and much more peaceful my tom says is not only pepys hometown it is also the home of the don song.
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so we're going. to. first of all they wanted to show us the best view of the city up at the acme to de monsoreau. bell ringing. ring the bell with you for the mambo for the song for all that you got. yeah for that right we did together gather. but i mean come on. when you went in the. former by the.
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from a number of honest house to done some in the sala white with pepe's mother the dumb son is the national dance of cuba and to understand it you have to dance it i was amazed at how different it is to dance the dance song compared to the other cuban dances like mambo and it felt positively stately and best of all you don't sweat as much while dancing it.
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yet you have got a very rare. yeah. there were now though they came. down song you know i have a better. a head off that is all i know you know i mean yes started almost. the 1st dance song ever written was premiered here in the solow white house in the courtyard that. surprised me with an impromptu performance of the piece.
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full of mambo rumba and don song we left matanzas to go back to have when we found out that our concert had been cancelled due to the coronavirus we needed something to cheer ourselves up. ok ok. i mean i mean it is very excited now the plan is to show my wonderful friends the film that we mates the documentary film the cuban journey the tiny mambo most of them haven't seen it yet because it's online but it's quite hard to get online from
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here and it takes a lot of data on your own so we're really excited to watch that and just to relive most i remember instead of playing on the 20 member concert this was going to try and relive it by watching. the thought of the woman that thought of the same or not to say that i asked. for that out i come over but i don't have a better and why then does anyone know music and care for them or any. must have a mountain boy them in going to sign yonder where no frantically no how am i going to special moment on a given i must not leave their turn again but i was and was afraid the whole
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question of the moment the n.a. the u.i. and a comment i stated to the end that. 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 a supplemental. i
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