in 2006, the maestro and the deutsche as m bonnie orchestra bellin began work on a unique project. can't nagondo conduct classical masterpieces in cooperation with deutsch havana. that was a, i feel for something very visionary of m. deutsch. avella. as far as i know, something of the skills as i was his kind of historical had never really been done with so much visual or interviews and discussions about the composer. and until today, i haven't really seen any, but think so ambitious as, as, as huge project. that even as you recall, some animation sectors were involved, really free thinking very, a imaginative em explorations. the feeling within the orchestra was that this was an opportunity to explore at this time,

new technology to try to reach millions of people and throughout the entire world. and that was what made the orchestra so excited about the project is let's try to play for the international her audience. the international public that we can reach through to which about classical masterpieces showcased 6 important symphonies by 6 master composers. one was johan has brahms symphony number 4. ah ah

ah, with 4th is symphony. i do have a personal relationship with it. now the piece to me seems like an unusually strong statement of the future. pat, not at all conservative, it's something that actually is nearly a radical sign post towards the future. and that's why it remain so active in my repertoire today. it is noise music. so to say, ah,

ah ah, what makes repertoire? so wizell is that the composer will bring the sounds of the future, bring us to the future so that the public is really anchored in the future. but a composer also will let us hear the past while we're in the future. so the last movement of is, you know, in the 4 symphonies, the pasa kaya and ancient form that brahms brought back as a part of the future. the pasta kaya that's been used since, since broke times, and even before. so for us it, it may be, today's doesn't feel so radical,

but at the time he was a clear sign post that the 20th century is coming for our tradition is going forward. that's why i feel today the for symphony is such a pivotal symphony. and why, for example, sure, and back baber and are so fascinated with with this. mm hm. yet contemporary composers have always played an important role for kent nagondo as well. a try at least to search for works and search for composes that i feel are not ordinary. but extraordinary. so that what i offer to the public,

i honestly have to believe that it is of exceptional quality and has something profoundly meaningful to say. my personal experience is that her more often than not, of a piece that it is all our time that i've chosen to playing the public will be at the very least willing to listen to it, willing to give it a chance. and very often, they all like the piece in october 2021. the conductor premiered the piano concerto. tara nostra at the philharmonic in berlin. a work by the french composer or dog bruno boomy, born in 1982. a lot of you see any place them on the fridge river and of course nagondo was wielding the baton for the dsl ah,

the piece is special because we've been talking about the past, present and future. so one of the things that are in, bruno, believe me, is playing with is exactly this putting layers of time together, independent voices that are traveling in, in time together, coordinated of course. but from a melodic standpoint, completely free and, and moving. the polyphony is taking place primarily between the 3 trumpet solos and the string movement. at the same time, the piano and the precaution,

they are playing off times very, very vertically, hulma phonic. so you hear these corps that are moving vertically. well, the rest of the orchestra is moving horizontally. paula, frantically and the tension that come is from the vertical and the horizontal colliding together. japanese pianist, marie coma, was the soloist at the premier and the source of inspiration for bruno bullying work. a beethoven expert. she has performed many works with the d. s. o and nagondo at the helm. and she's been married to the conductor for more than 30 years. when

mary and i 1st met we, there were, there was no question of any romance of an end. there was no spark of falling in love or something like that. we met as professionals on the concert stage and we gave many, many conscious together. and i always enjoyed it because with mary and me we were so close musically that her for a little discussion was needed when, when i would hear her play, it felt, am i so close to my own feeling or my own ascetic that them it, it was for a natural, very organic, he was only after many, many years that we actually came together as a, as, as a couple and, but still whenever we're appear on the stage together, i still count myself is very fortunate because the musical connection is

a very, very natural one, so yeah, sometimes i can get in trouble if i don't conduct correctly. al ridi here in a very strong way. that should be better. we do haven't quite an open dialogue as professional musicians. and that somehow doesn't get in the way of personal dialogue as well. i can't nagondo still maintains a full concert schedule in his free time. he enjoys windsurfing back home in california. it's a great way to reach arch. nagondo is still brimming with plans and ideas for musical projects at earlier phases. you just want to simply do as much as you possibly can all of the time, but the choices to have to be made always otherwise the quality will suffer on the other side. and here i will quote frank zappa,

because someone as frank south of the same thing, don't you ever get tired of touring with your band? and going over and safa said, actually, i feel i'm one of the most privileged people her. because i have the privilege of making music and this is what i would like to do in my free time. not everyone has the wonderful situation where they are able to have as their occupation, something that has also their passion. so in that sense i, i feel very fortunate and that is a stroke of fortune for us. kent nagondo, a life in music ah,

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germany gets ready for i'm across as the new variance spreads, people line up to get boost the japs as help official site. even those who have been vaccinated twice are at high risk of infection. antigua forces and site will withdraw from areas they've captured in india. but as the fathers for treats that people are still suffering. they deputy visit the village court in the country. ah, i'm anthony. how'd walk into the program? the i'm a crohn corona virus fair and is spreading rapidly around the world lock in the united states where case numbers have exploded. it's now the dominant strain. it accounting for nearly 3 quarters of all infections. a week ago it was only 12 percent in new york, which was once the epi center of the pandemic american cases,

a surgeon dashing hopes for christmas and new year's celebrations. oh, 03. 0, one happy new year. this is just a test. new year's eve in times square has not come early by the on the chron wave has hit the us sooner than many experts expected nearby and new yorkers line up to get tested with christmas just days away and cases surging. many are worried. definitely feels like that 1st wave of the pandemic without anxiety, all these long lines around the city, people getting tested on exams or getting cancel and for people in grad school like myself. so i kind of feel like that really part of that. we didn't, we didn't really know what's happening. i think we've all been affected as a new yorker, we're targeting every single promotion that we can um got dull vax boosted regular testing. i am planning to charge for the holidays, but depending on the result of this test, i'll probably stay put in your back. americas took pandemic advisor. anthony found

she though, had a hopeful message for those worried about the holidays. yes, you can go the extra mile and get tested before you have a family gathering or a group get test the day before or the day of getting together, but vaccinated and boosted people. one of the family members of vaccinated should feel very comfortable in getting together and enjoying a holiday meal or a holiday. get together president joe biden plans to address the rapid rise in corona virus case as later on tuesday. but he's already made it clear with some of the blame lies for those who choose to remain and vaccinated. he'll issue a stark warning and make clear and vaccinate individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. that is not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risks are here of not being vaccinated. despite the worsening situation in times square,

some people were still in a festive mood bath. this might be the last time new yorkers see these lights in person. the mass still hasn't decided if new year's celebrations here. we'll go ahead. well, earlier i spoke with professor pe, the ching hung from the university of california in san francisco. and i asked him to explain this staggering jump in. i'm a crohn cases in the u. s. of the past 7 days. will there to mean reasons explaining this rapid rise in percentage of the variance a script you know, accounted for by or across the united states. the 1st is that there's oftentimes a delay in when full sequencing is done from what's going on in the population. and the 2nd of course, is the unbelievable transmission of omicron not having been seen before with delta or any other variant. and if you have enough people infected at some point, that transmission is going to be exponential. so the graph starts re gradually

enough people get infected on all of a sudden that graph shoots up like a rocket. i think unfortunately, we'll see a lot more hospitalizations, even though probably fewer. proportionally speaking, people will go to the us when he's talking about a wide swath of the population being infected. even if you say 2 percent of the of that population goes to the hospital. that's still a lot of people that me strain hospitals. the 2nd thing is, hospital health care workers will be pulled out of service because they to live in a community and they may get infected, they will get infected. and every time someone gets infected, that's 10 days of a cool prison sentence where you have to isolate yourself. we think that even though a lot of people proportionately won't get sick necessarily because they've been vaccinated in some areas. that's still a lot of people not just to be hospitalized, but to potentially lead the community into a lot of chaos with

a lot of closures of businesses. broadway theatres i was when we've been seeing now are sports games. and most importantly, and close to my heart streaming of the health care system that was professor pitching home from the university of california. speaking to me, a little earlier on the world health organization is calling on people to cancel some of their holiday plans to help contain the rapid spread of the on the chrome variant w white show director general tedra skipper has seuss says there was now consistent evidence that on the cross was more contained just than all other versions of the virus. and he warned that holiday festivities would in many places, lead to increased cases and more debts. all funds are seek off this bond on all of us. want to spend time with friends and family, but uneven cancelled is better than life cancelled. it's better

to conceal now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. and as the on the conference spreads across germany, the national health authority is warning that even fully vaccinated paypal, our at a high risk of contracting to run of ours. they've robert coke institute says i'm a grown could trigger i sudden increase in the number of cases causing medical facilities to be of won't. as officials consider new lockdown measures, people across germany have been rising to get boosters. preparing for alma crohn, germany is rushing to get a vaccine booster shot to its critical workers like these firefighters and hamburg before the new cove. at 19 variant becomes dominant here, while daily cases are sinking across the country, experts more in the dreaded wave could arrive just after christmas. it's empress and their smell is excellent, and it's

a rapid exponential increase i talk with wanted, if you take the conservative estimate that cases double every 3 days or what scientists and britain are reporting every 2 days. and if i don't know, you only need a pocket calculator to see that that's extremely fast, it's vonda mitchell. while vaccines are the 1st line of defense, germany's government is preparing new restrictions for as early as next week, even for the fully vaccinated. like to send off not by to that we will have further restrictions on private contacts. so we're well prepared for the spread of the new virus mutation. all over europe was done as a huge violin novel pals fight it. what the new curves will look like is unclear, that still needs to be discussed with the leaders of germany states, but it seems everything is on the table. is global then the fish data. but if experts predictions are confirmed, and what we're seeing in neighboring countries continues gal and we can't rule out

a general lockdown, including everything from businesses to education, to private gatherings and yet, mismatch reason. for starters, that will likely mean canceled new years eve parties. and those making fitness resolutions for 2022 might have to postpone hitting the gym until the arm across wave is over. ok, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. and russia has ordered 2 german diplomats to leave the country and a tit for tat route with berlin. asked reek germany expelled to russian diplomats after a court ruled moscow. had ordered the killing of a church, an exile in berlin. germany says the latest expulsions will further strain bilateral relations in while in the philippines, the death toll from typhoon roy has risen to 375, with dozens of people still missing. military have been called in to help us entire communities were leveled. and many more left without electricity, water, or food. hundreds of thousands have been displaced and type and the typhoon rather

has triggered landslides and flash floods. now the conflict in ethiopia, where the tig, ryan people's liberation front, has announced that it will withdraw from several regions. it had captured the head of the t gray forces claimed the move was a step towards peace. if the o b a has been fighting a civil war for more than a year, now, forces from the t grab region have been battling government troops in a conflict that has drawn in neighboring a retreat. both sides are accused of committing atrocities. meanwhile, tens of thousands of civilians have died and millions have lost their hearts. access for journalists has been very limited. at d, w, visited the government, controlled em horror bridge and embedded with local authorities from their maria to get nicolette. nicholas group filed this report on the people caught in the cost fra this is all that is left of are you but hands house to it. it

was demolished by artillery fire, wendy tube, in army and to grand forces clashed in the area of amazon. hey, this is where the table was a whole. it's all broken now. you know, look at it. it was a nice house. it was beautiful and wonderful. beth. she hid in the forest for 9 days. well, to gran rebels occupied her village on their way to the capitol hill at austin and what we feared for our lives. we didn't know if they were going to kill us. we had children with us, we were scared or whatever. i was with my neighbors at night it was very cold and the conflict has not spared civilians and little, endless village residents was a 21. people were killed by a romal antiquarian rebel in your bedroom, la mcgovern. in this mass grave. we buried 4 people per hole that they weren't soldiers yet. they were honest civilians. local people buried them. we collected

the bodies after they left, and there were some bodies which they hi, eunice had started to eat. hundreds of thousands of people have fled the violins, my me to bill at shoe and her children sought refuge in this makeshift camp inevitable hun. but she says it lacks everything. i laid as another child. there is nothing to eat, we have children, and there are no clothes. people left their homes without their belongings. if we're being told it's safe to go back. but what we have to go back to, they burned down our houses. it's not just people's homes. public infrastructure has also been destroyed. this hospital investigate was heavily looted and could, i could, i could like with antibiotics here and now we have nothing around here. we had medicine to treat hypertension, mental health issues. yeah. moment. i hope the hospital was a referral center for 8000000 people that we thought were going all this waste material. you see here they did through the symbol or this is trasha that but among

it there also medicines which we could have used almost. i've got the a millisecond, but madonna can in the people in m hara already had difficulty accessing food out of the war has made that worse. the un says armed men and local communities looted 8 warehouses such as this one. and the government accuses to grand forces of disrupting the harvest. canada they came in the crop to make sure and ready to be harvested. so they destroyed them. not only the crops that had been harvested, but also those that hadn't been collected yet. alissa will who love with her ag bolcom the conflict has affected everything, least people in i'm her are the ones we can see in the neighboring to gray region. a great humanitarian crisis is also unfolding, but no one is allowed to go there and report on it. oh, oh, here in europe at weather forecasters are offering much hope of a white christmas for most parts of the continent. but temperatures are still cold

enough to live in the senses of those brave enough to go for a winter swim in switzerland. thousands took part in a traditional pre christmas dip in waters of 7 degrees celsius. ha, baby, it's cold outside. but for some in geneva, that means it's time for a swim. the brave bared their skin in record numbers at this year's christmas cup. after last year's event was cancelled due to the pandemic. over 3000 signed up for a chance at glory and frozen toes. to certain moral, pre gone, manifest. this is certainly the biggest winter swimming event in the world. i saw the phenomenon of getting together and releasing your joy. the cold water takes us away from all our problems to the polar emma. the challenge begins with a splash from a bucket. while it may look sadistic, it helps the swimmers bodies prepare for the coming shock. once they've taken the play, the contestants have to swim 100 meters,

while some are playing to win for others, the reward is a feeling of relief when it's all over. so what did you, ex, horrible for the 1st 10 seconds, but afterwards you feel really good. why are you doing this? aha, because we're having fun or soil for the smile afterwards. exactly, with a smile afterwards. well. oh maybe that explains the record attendance permission once again to do something out of the ordinary. ah. 6 not thanks, coming up next. october, 19th, special looking at why many people are protesting against corona virus measures. i'm anthony howard on. we'll be back in 45 minutes with the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what are the latest research say information and context? the corona by.