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russians make their wishes come true. up next it's our interview show spotlight and today we dive into the world of music as they explore how modern ideas can rearrange the past and get respect as in truth is our guest tonight. the truth is that so much to me is going to make a lot of people very much want to hear it if anything two thousand and ten shows just how fragile the world is was. yet a welcome to spotlight for michelle on hard sci fi valbrun i'll venture

a my guest in the studio playing the lion is a victim. of the music has been ardently keeping it scattered for centuries but listen i think it's a sorry. trying to think of the body and brain matter ideas into it's hard water is that why not give them something. instead of the shuffling the power the answer is a musician who was in a rush and. jack straw man old arsenal. became part of the guinness book of records for playing sticklers again just out of gas or please welcome light a spotlight pictures in show.

hosts. you've chosen to kiss considered russia's best guitarist. a few years of composing and playing with the country's best artists just started a seoul korea to find inspiration his relationship with a classical canon and emphasizes the creativity of rearranging committed to the guinness book of records nine years ago after playing. flight of the bumblebee a technically challenging composition popular with rock musicians today the guitarist whose hands have been insured for half a million u.s. dollars and joins us to discuss why classical music remains a benchmark for modern composition and before months. welcome to our program let me start with history i first met you in the one nine hundred eighty s. . a very popular jazz rock musician playing in one of russia's best jazz

rock bands if you're even invited to the status quo if i'm not mistaken the band which was extremely popular at the time why did you reject the career of a world class rock star and choose classical music instead. well you know there's a russian. man can be useful if he's home and in another thing is that perhaps here they need me more here you mean in russia. or in classical music. classical music and russia i felt that mastered everything yet i was studying at the mosque university of culture and i graduated with honors i'm proud of the fact that i'm one of the few more bitterest who called the new green classical music let me ask you eric clapton mark knopfler the beatles and many others they didn't have any musical education at all is it really necessary for a guitar player just helps it helps so it's not

a must well if you want to achieve something in classical music you needed like in my case it helped me a lot i think you're you've always been a rock musician are you a rock musician now or are you not any longer i'm a musician in the broad sense of the word. still again i'll divide music but just playing a piece by mozart yes it was malta ordered and then beat home but it was rock music well yes so that means iraq musician well would you see. home in a more rock musicians considering their express you force and what kind of people they were for instance big hall and had long hair and long love dancing through the night playing billiards and was partying the same way the rock stars do today you couldn't do any of them smoke yes it was johann sebastian bach oh he smokes he was one of the first people to use a cigarette holder see that's the benefit of studying classical music you get to read a lot of bug great composers and now i can share this information at my concerts i

tell people about their lives and what kind of people they were. and one of the interviews he said that you're a co-author with beethoven bach and many other composers are you sure that those great composers need a co-author what do you think they really need your interpretation of you know yes they do because johann sebastian bach was discovered actual in the nineteenth century and in the nineteenth century it was considered good taste much like johnny my cello released in other composers played their own pieces together with those by bach many interpreters these were exiting something of their own to them musicians edit their own canon says musical pieces of their own that's why i decided that it would be appropriate in the twentieth century as well as bob was well ahead of time he was a very advanced person so if you lived in the twentieth century he would compose music for such powerful instruments as electrical guitar that's eighty percent of

the truth and the other twenty percent is that it's my tribute to classical music you know i was in italy in there in the mountains in a castle they told me my son and cast a horoscope for me big told me that i was responsible for maintaining harmony so i feel good when i feel that i must do. are you successful at it yes we don't have enough of this kind of music on t.v. and on the radio and people like it that's why i played it in my concerts and i feel very good it seems to be so good that it becomes going teachers soon all others also feel good in people change at the end of the concert something changes in their eyes with all today's problems music works miracles and its impact on people is boundless so let's take a closer look now at the phenomenon of mixing classics and rock in a report by spotlights yulian that jimi that. car these yesterday and eleanor rigby are believed to be inspired by deval these music later the beatles would record some of this songs with a compliment of

a symphony orchestra. in one nine hundred seventy one emerson lake and palmer rock the world with an interpretation of mussorgsky's because at an exhibition the eighty's there's an fragments of question good music in rock songs became somewhat over routine practice with guitarists liking the moms in making rock arrangements of moral classical pieces the complicated scores of cultures from the past are a challenge which more than artists i'm willing to face a virtual guitarist steve vai before going in his fifth priest in one nine hundred eighty six movie crossroads this not just to rock musicians who are influenced by classical music unless i'm a made her professional debut as a traditional violinist but later turned to electronic interpretations of the classics and full classically trained cellists of the finnish apocalyptica band achieved worldwide fame in the ninety's for they range ments of metallica's songs

while some say mixing genres is good but it popularizes classics others believe the old masterpieces are only degraded and oversimplified to be interest of modern musicians to classics is a new and likely to subside in the. and the music prevails and computer technologies make it possible almost we want to kill themselves. to be sticky didn't. go only to grow in it. they're going to mr marshall victor i have your quote here here's what you said do you know what saved me the fact that i was born in the soviet union and i never thought whether it's profitable or not to be a musician and my happiness never depended on the fact whether i had a million dollars or not while young musicians today often can't cope with this burden and of quote it sounds nice but what do you think saved ritchie blackmore

and mark knopfler saying and jimmy page what saved them because they weren't born in the soviet union you may well i don't know because i have never lived there i was born in a different place but then in dealing everybody was idealistic at times in the music forbidden here was very sweet we want to do very much and even though we didn't have it on t.v. and on the radio people were copying records and passing them to one another everybody knew about musicians much more than young people not today. for middle fruit is sweet but that's not the main reason of course the thing is that that music was very dear to me it contains great wisdom accumulated by humanity that's why forty two the old maintaining carmi i wanted to play it's amazing that you're a person who came from the underground but it's not only in the soviet union but

also in the west and around the world that the underground produces more masterpieces then official music why is it the case that something does forbid results in greater artistic works than the music which is open which is being supported and developed. it's no secret that when music is. professional in artist depends greatly on the producers who have already decided what he's or her rematch on stage would be like and don't let them sidestep from it people get used to seeing a rock guitarist in points but what if i want to try and play the acoustic guitar but if i want to play banjo or sell to court i can do it here in the underground well i can say that i am in the underground now but i'm a happy person because i can go beyond the boundaries of the sword that style i just can't limit myself to want style. well you said producers decide they're a thing in professional music you sounded sad like a man who knows if there is town are you in a similar situation now to some extent so do you have less freedom today as comes

back to the days when you played jazz rock and nightclubs in the dead of the night no i'm absolutely free at my concerts at my concerts i can play anything i want but to appear on television as a musician i need to fit in the program for example in russia instrumental music often appears in comedy shows and naturally this has to be something simpler something funny of course sometimes to the air my concerts but that doesn't happen very often only late at night that they're the guinness book of world records calls here the fastest guitar player in the world. and the flight of the bumblebee by. the speed of twenty seconds true. but according to what she said that was just for fun. but what's difficult for you then the most difficult thing is to perform at a concert that changes people and lasts for two hours and to hold people's attention we play schubert beat hollins for really use you're saying that the most

difficult thing is they hold people's attention as this thing that you're playing your music for people who don't want to listen to it they have to force them to tell me any of them know they're a little music or all over the country when i performed in italy for example one person. him up to me and said you know we talents are musical people but my wife knows next to nothing about music like this but she wept once a listen to the marina by schubert you're working miracles and i thought to myself if i can do it in the rush or in a bloody boss talking some are in moscow and people understand it and listen with tears in their eyes this means i'm not that bad at it after all he says saggy time is going to compose a potential spotlight will be back shortly to would take a break and we'll continue in less than a minute little talk and play music stay with us.

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into a backyard i'm not i know a little bit. i'm much closer to crop up and. all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provoking of statements then the muslim schools have the right to exist. in new york city. welcome back to spotlight i'm going of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is a think that is essential guitarist very charles though and composer and my personal friend victor welcome back walking back to the show. when you started talking about your current interests. i know that today you're interested in celtic

music it's amazing that when we were young generation of those rock musicians tended to turn to indian music george harrison john mclouth and many many others today's rock musicians their tears into ritchie blackmore ritchie blackmore and many others play celtic music what brought you to celtic music. you know stairway to heaven by led zeppelin was influenced by celtic ballots all english ballots originate from there yes. so i realized that to be able to play this music really well once you know celtic music i simply bought a ticket to arlen and flew there came back with two bags of discs and musical instruments and then i started studying it you know there are a lot of young people in russia who not only imitate their looks by wearing kilts there are salty clubs where they dance and learn about celtic used tree it was very

interesting for me to learn about caroline and european harper's boards in russia. but the border transition actually originates from europe or carolyn in our rich harpers were considered the best among european musicians before their music was superseded by church music and be home and so i realized i didn't know anything about celtic music and i thought it would help me to learn about it then again i felt like we didn't have enough of that type of music in russia so i decided to play the music i felt will happen and the celtic culture is quite popular in russia isn't it the same patrick's day as the us the national holiday of course a lot of people say that celtic music is very reminiscent of ethnic russian songs do you think that's true i think that's my point it's a lot like the russian ethnic songs of all the singing is korsakoff simplified russian ethnic music in the nineteenth century by releasing at collections of the

two hundred most popular ethnic songs he simplified down the old music that still leaves on in russia in the our hunger screeching for example he's passed on from generation to generation that music sounds a lot like the celtic tunes of old in orthodox priest once showed me in an old russian church the head a celtic cross may have something to do with the viking reign in russia or something else but where were the influence might come from the spirit celtic music sounds a lot like oriental music too there is also a legend that says if it landed sever existed at lansing music was similar to celtic music because the celtic tones system was given to the druids by giants the children of atlanteans but it's hard to check if the legend is true but the story is beautiful if it is true that will explain why everybody loves celtic music so much i keep hearing stories about you you're a legend there a person and not only in russia i've heard among other things that you have several

dozen guitars if not several hundred not several hundreds more like several dozen i've heard that the world's leading guitar makers consider it an all. honored to send you a guitar for your birthday each hear is that true well they didn't do it when i just started out but after i had made certain achievements and started happening and they made it does especially for you it's very nice of them is it true that one of the guitar makers that fender is a russian and that he's making it does for you yes it's true a russian guitar maker by the name. does work at fender and then one of his guitars is a prison for. touring my concert at the ground it's beautiful and very expensive we have the guitar right here and i still play it at concerts it's called indorsement many guitar companies coppery it with musicians it must be profitable since our market is quite big and companies want popular musicians to play their instruments is the same with rockets and tennis players yes i think they're considered as when we were younger some of our idols like jimmy page and so on played gibson guitars

others played fender we were following god it was important to us what guitar brands our favorite musicians preferred to know you're playing gibsons fenders that you've been as does this mean you have no principles i have principles but i'm not an arrow i really can't be pigeonholed when i play a piece that i want to sound fed into see like for example against pollan is using jeeps and guitar when i need to refinance sounds bru can glass to home. caleb or mark knopfler i use a fender stratocaster besides that i have a soul to chorus that i bought in germany i go there to buy acoustic instruments because i play the classical guitar to both a metal and nylon strings i even have a pedal steel guitar any ukulele i play this one by certain songs on a ukulele i did that at my kremlin concerts with a famous ballerina i mean all of these instruments were there like means to me that i used to paint a lot of different beautiful pictures so your answer to the question of what's

better than there are gibson who leave or lou. your answer is everything good for you your name and peace loving man seriously no guitar as a simple instrument as great but it is simple do you think it's possible to make a perfect guitar one that you would be able to take with you on tour instead of the five you carry around now is such a guitar possible to make or do they have to be different have you ever thought about it you know they have to be different and that's the thing guitar does not play itself and there is no instrument that you can pick up and just start playing everyone wants a guitar like that but it doesn't exist guitar is an extension of the guitar player this secret is that you have to murray to the instrument and fully yourself as much as you play the guitar the strings when you put them on through fingers become an extension of your hand that's how you gained it huge power to influence the

audience you depends on the guitarists personality his culture he thinks he's purity to his knowledge and many other personal qualities even his physical condition all of these things affect stage presence and whether the musician is able to perform well on stage. that wait a minute to say that all great musicians well you said just the guitarists this guy that alone musicians. all these people who have lots of fans. to say that they're all people of high moral standards they're all good people he's just dedicated to music. you know many ways yes they're all outstanding people there is no doubt about that. there are no bad people among them. when a person like that comes on stage is negative charisma will make him the font to watch but only for certain times there are people like that of course but the

general rule is that when an impure purr. performs she's the one someone who doesn't like what they do you or doesn't like people perform their performance does not turn out there well people don't notice that but it's true i believe that jesus and villainy are incompatible i'm not the first person to say that there is a certain steerage type regarding rock star behavior rock stars drink and to drugs but they do it in order to give all they have to music they want to serve music and serve their audience they destroy themselves during that so we can condemn musicians or taking drugs. so you're justifying them but it is a fact that drugs help make music they help you be more creative to go to another dimension so you don't condemn drugs and rock music this has already happened

that's how a lot of musical styles of morning meant that if you look at jimi hendrix and psychedelic music. of course i can't condemn those people to do because russia and the whole world are promoting healthy lifestyle. you know when you grew up your realize until i mean to say that musicians have already taken what they could from the drugs is a thing in the past now you hear some relief so musicians changes the grow up and they grow to understand that if they keep on taking drugs or smoking you know there is a great football team in russia called star cole who other musicians play for that team and i'm very happy that i started playing football that was twelve years ago i quit smoking and kicked all my bad habits the lot of people come to our concerts also we organize charity games giving the money to sick children i know that you know in other countries have similar projects but i you realize that i was at the

next stage that stage was in the past the muse. and now i have to stay fit if i want to give concerts and reach out to people with my music and i'm not the only one like that russia this insurance company that insured your hands for half a million dollars to play football you know it's a true story but i did that a long time ago you know last century i was defers to russian musician i believe to have his hands insured for half a million dollars but that was only for a year and the contract was actually quite elaborate i was not allowed to engage in mountain climbing and gliding or other dangerous sports you can stick your fingers into electricity sockets yes that would avoid the contract the place to buy spice immediately spicy about on the thank you very much for being with us it was a great pleasure thank you just a reminder that my guest today was guitarist and composer. thank you for being

with us in the spotlight and just to remind you watching spotlight on r.t. . famous musician composer and guitar hero i was out was with us this show will be. partly take care.