up there in the world valerie jarrett gave forgot his first taste of international recognition at the age of twenty three when he won the major herbert funk carry on the word and burley gives emotional expression and exceptional passion for music has made him one of the most sought after conductors across the globe he has guest conducted most of the world's major orchestras since one thousand nine to six he has been the genuine old director of the mariinsky theatre in st petersburg and since two thousand and seven principal conductor up the london symphony orchestra gave the organizer of several major international musical spectacular events most notably the white knight bastable and say it is birth in most schools east of class to one of the foremost international conductors of all time gary give has never been shy to react to major world issues especially those concerning his native caucasus after the two thousand and four busline school massacre he conducted

a series of concerts in tribute to the victims following the two thousand and eight war south of saudia he came to conduct a concert the rule when parliament building in memory of those who died in the congo. i. want to give a welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure while her first of all i would like to ask. you do different things you do so many things in your life except music lots of things along with music so music for you is

a trait a business or a mission. can you choose the three because it is my world. but it doesn't really matter if i'm in moscow new york if i am was music event was orchestrated i am was a singer as was a chorus is well i know what i have to do i think and. it is also important for me to say that. moscow and new york are big big cities but i find it more and more pleasant to go to this unknown places smaller towns are wonderful music lovers who are always good i think they always waiting for a really important musical events and that's where my heart tells by have to go more and more often you conducted one person for verdi's requiem with the marine

corps construct in london this year you also are the principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra so what are you preparing for london this year so it's something interesting i just came from london those are three days ago four days ago we perform. a very long ober a beautiful bit of a kind of i got bossy and famous wreck for him. so that was very recently and my next return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stravinsky yugoslavians key is arguably the most famous composer of twenty of century and maybe one of the absolutely most important musicians of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia in america in europe or so may in london it will be the starting ski season what about the olympics will you be performing in london during

the games well my oldest there will be involved in the seven august i will be there myself for the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games and i personally hope also rushed. although well so you here you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you he were. endorsed put his presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity a name to to put his campaign it's very simple i think russia needs a strong leader a russian yes a leader who knows the job well it's a little bit like orchestra. choosing a conductor because the fate of orchestra or big corporate house very much depends on the leadership i think putin knows even better than four years ago how to lead this country he knows economy better than maybe ever before and he will meet me

very strong team and by far the most important question will be who will be the team members especially key members when you we say we are of the same generation you me when we see a strong leader we have second thoughts we have the history of totally terry regime in russia when you say putin is a strong leader and you want him as a president don't you have any theories in second thoughts do you think do you think he has enough will you know what to keep not falling over the edge you know what i mean i don't think he wants to be acting as. a leader who is really ready to. push too far. and make an impression that he is doing something what big big majority of people will not take very well i don't think so all the recent events in december.

i thought show that russia is growing russia is changing but there was no blunt most importantly there was no blood i don't think it was any harder on demonstrators than in any other country and all myself. i myself hope for the lives that whatever happens on the streets it will be peaceful and things what it was peaceful so i think it's a big step forward for any country in the world today to have demonstrations protestors about to make sure that their lives hell for their well being absolutely not. and i think russia is moving and moving in the right direction that's my feeling i'm artist i'm not spending hours and hours myself on the streets sure even in st petersburg and working actually i hope a lot of people of russia will do the same just work quite hard that's why i'm

interested in your opinion because the opinion of politicians are more or less easy it's a game for them but for you it's not a game it's a piece of sheet music is your world and this thing it's part of your world of this so so this is why it's very important for me to know your point of view what do you think and many people say that artists should this isn't this this themself from politics some power they should be out there out in order not to lose not not to lose the love and devotion of the other people of different political views do you think this is correct i absolutely agree with this position i was in no way involved in any part of tea in the last twenty years and i think it's appropriate to say a famous man you know on that the only subject once came to my house and he wanted me to be. he not only joining the party which he wanted to form but also to be what you call in the first three are you so you will ignore one or two one or three days

i believe i was offered to be a number three. was or all the respect and very politely yeah i told scheme it was maybe one thousand and three ninety four and i had to tell him well thank you so much i'm very honored but i think i have to do what i do conducting leading the marine ski and for me it is totally important. young or old common is or national is everyone who comes to the american ski for me the most important public public and they are all equal to me if they want to hear that your cost of are going to vary the they are all equal we have to act well we have to perform saying dance we have to deliver a very high quality and everyone who is in the auditorium he's equally important to us and to me personally as a leader oh last question about politics we saw many artists many of your

colleagues campaigning for putin this break why so some say they did so to secure their projects the answer is charities all movies whatever do you think that art is so very much dependent on politics in russia is the reality of india for example the best strategy to just survive is not i will be very very honest. it's not maybe a very nice one prostitute it's not what you can apply to the actions of some of the very distinguished famous and actually brilliantly gifted people we are all grown enough to have an opinion i have very very firm dream itself today no one is better prepared for his job than the abortion what will happen in the four five six years it will be much will depend on putting himself but i repeat also what he steam for example what mr couldn't will do is

a fine is because it's not only four more it's also the best we've had yet it's very important and i believe this questions really important also to many many artists and intellectuals but. when people i my younger friend for example the nice months is a brilliant pianist you know he was here in this studio is very very nice person but it's he's also very small. he's very organized i don't think he has to do something special or something tricky he doesn't have to sell himself he's doing what he does brilliantly he's playing piano but also leading his generation. i don't think it's correct and i think it's smart and i don't think it's polite to think well if you support or maybe he needs something from putin i think it's a very very big mistake it's exactly what was done. thirty years ago

by the way i'm never very critical of everything what happened in soviet union of course not for example and you cajuns system was quite strong quite brilliant health care mainly for arts the art of armies lucic credible really but when we were told don't listen to the words of america why. oh you can't because the lies telling lies that's that's the same mistake what some somehow people repeat now if people today have that what binion and they say well i think i like this candidate oh no or you have some interest so you maybe want to get some money or you want to get some some kind of very special. you know. help which you personally need if you just wait it out that i like this campaign but not another one but maybe some people like this kind of because i think is the best candidate i myself happen to think that today russia cannot

afford an experiment where someone who never let anything. jumps to the chair of a president of a country especially in the world which believe now says i need to get a gift principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the muddy inskeep you can say it is not like all the backroom grief after a break so stay with us and we.

will do the. science technology innovation all the mainstream elements from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. welcome back to spotlight i am our love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is valerie gave principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the martin ski theory. is to give the annual easter festival easter music festival which which is your child you hear one of your beloved children it's opening this weekend so isn't becoming like a world event yet when you found it you promised you would make it a whirl world event is the geography increasing first of all it's called moscow is

their first thought is clearly indicates that it's a russian cultural group but be event starts in moscow traditionally and comes to me and also is a big concert in moscow in between money's curious and also leading singers some of brilliance always instrumental is the violinist or peonies cellist. visit many regions of russia every year but it is good divergent lee we go east so it will be pairing more you cotillion more biscoe or a more go where they built on the stick new hole by the way gnomes very quickly build it hold this time we go two more months which is part of the our thinks it was a was our congress when we go back to your us level and then moscow to er yes we plan

intend also to perform in kiev a great russian or political one china in kiev is a big project where we can and we will go solve two or last of what will go to war on us will go to cast on the will go to kiss lovat's probably to start reporting to volgograd. and then back to moscow you see we how many people take well we sometimes a thousand or well cover in china will be about three hundred people it's a great great russian on board and i think you know it's going to be hopefully a quite a gig beautiful beautiful event as well and then a minimum hundred people troubles me just a staff writer for this year's events you chose so keep her coffee yes why why him this time well tchaikovsky who we love and his music still need what you call more and more recognition because of course he's not only order of not cracker or swan lake or fifth symphony or six symphony there are many many

other beautiful compositions but coffee of stravinsky shows the college. the great great composers of twentieth century and russia some people don't even maybe understand how incredibly much russia was given the world throughout twentieth century and these three composers just for example stravinsky perkoff you just the coach nearly every week in my plans you know well i've noticed that your orchestra is playing more russian composers of the twentieth century stravinsky just. if you just mentioned the then then them for since you you know you put and she koskie glencoe well and it had a traditionally well known is that what we started with is it because music for you isn't just business but it's a mission you want to promote the people that you think are. a little bit forgotten

in some places you see a great composers they are able to work. at least twenty five thirty years maybe they should be more sort of not so lucky they didn't leave that long but. we in twenty five thirty or forty or fifty years they compose a lot some of those pieces compositions become very things even verdi has more famous opera us and less famous so the truth about chick or ski is that even joe cosby has more famous compositions on them than sort of real world in general is hugely popular means key years as well shostakovich getting more and more popular but i'm looking that all life story of prokofiev and i find it important today to play all his symphonies or he's been a concerted push

a little bit upstaged from backstage to for the go very eve eve i am a soldier and my oldest with me of course money is good he said this case money's gone because there is a good strong army so we have to fight we are ready to fight who we defend we defend great composers of our nations in the first place and i think we have to be needs a good army to defend his music that is left in easter fest so we call the easter first though does it have any religious component any anything they do well for example for you a lot of bells will sing for moscow and for other cities these days and all the churches of moscow but also in many marriages of russia will be opened for choral singing we will perform in the. great hall of conservatory in moscow which is the best hall in moscow but also will perform in st petersburg about when your whole

embodied ski will perform in many other cities i just mentioned them already and it will be a festival t. i think. it is sacred music which makes it a little bit more close to the heart of simple people because everyone knows that if you go to the church and you will be very grateful also not only to that most of the church and the most are of russian easter but also to the music which makes this festival t. even more beautiful i think it's appropriate you have recently expressed your amazement the fact that most of the russian population are listening to cheap pop music that there are not enough what very few classical music in the air and the classical radio stations easily because you want to start or the classical station

or what you know i never speak against any music. cheap music or pop music or. my sis mass culture so the mascot you may be ok with it may be junk you were talking about junk box music and while we don't know what i mean but isn't it we all know it is this is some of it is just noise but but i will never do it speak against any music what i will do i will of course act and try to build more and more facilities and create opportunities for classical music to either way i don't think there is a crisis was crushing classical music in russia i don't think you travel or do you see a need to do did you see a market because f.m. and f.m. station is a business is there a market for classical music in russia and a large scale not only among moscow's intelligentsia but i mean in that all those cities you just mentioned i think there is a. the huge number of people who are in love with law school

music i swear we will go to these tent cities the halls will be full no one will force people to go there here's marion's key is famous years some people know my name but i think it's a love for music and people will expect something magical to happen something beautiful i'm not worried about classical music of russian i'm not worried about lack of interest i'm not worried about a lot of good taste now well here we can then we can improve i think we can improve over all but this is the case with many many countries i don't think we are doing. badly i don't think other countries are in much better shape and don't think so for them immediately in the schools there is no subject of music we have music and that was cool still maybe not enough. you have recently opened

your musical school in a western siberia this winter actually and the news is that the graduates of your school in siberia will get an opportunity to work with you in the marines get their in same piece is it a unique project or the other project like that it does with a few words about it look it's a small project but every conductor should try to do something small then all together we will make a progress because and not possible even to think about ok there is one man and he will just change everything we all have to serve school music and i think we don't have. we don't have to forget we a country of czerkawski where country or most of ski this is maybe not allowed it's a moral code no one tells me every day by the way you cannot forget you live in russia come true because it's just it's for me like waking up and maybe make sure. only think of. things going. in russia and my country gave so much of the world of

music recently you staged my fair lady a classical musical in the marines q which a classical classical music here in st petersburg lots of people criticized you why did you do that i don't think people criticize me i think there were twelve performances sold out. which means there is an interest my fair lady is a beautiful story it's a little bit of cinderella story it's a much loved story in the world and in russia it is the replacement in the classical all of the other classical stage i mean we're putting putting it out there that they leave the pop i mean you're going pop well look i didn't do it instead of classical i did it on top to do what we did. my came out except very important here marian skifield or performs more than seven hundred fifty times a year i repeat not two hundred fifty times seven hundred fifty times

a year seven sixty to be precise. eve. five hundred fifty dollars are using pewter and two hundred i would cite it as work and outside russia as well for example recent london performances or birmingham a card for paris or dortmund or munich or recently geneva that was just the last fifteen twenty days. that's good i think we mustn't doors without being off is surely part of the minister of foreign affairs but we're cultural ambassadors i find it very appropriate again and i find it also because i know because my distance was a marine ski is full of many many events and my fair lady is just one of very many events you know is a leader i plan quite intensive program so the company works no one can make use of money is being lazy being what you call underperforming underachieve or

underachiever i don't think you can apply to marine ski but one production is brilliant another one is maybe less brilliant would regret but no unified one director when he went another director you might cost him designer said designer and then you hope that it goes well and then after premiers say well that was great this was maybe a little bit less good well i hope you you you you always have this fire in your eyes because i see it now and as long as you do it as long as you have if you can do whatever you want as long as he had fun thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was to get a good principal conductor of the lot of them so they work a truck and director of the matter he's here in st petersburg and that's a kind of from all of us here spotlight will be back with more and comment on what's going on outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take a. reaching

knowledge across the board in the heads up to beijing on a state visit hoping to pick up economic tips from russia successful neighbor. the syrian rebels say they're no longer committed to a non ceasefire no fly zone to take over from the monitoring mission that's as tensions come to a head following the recent. with arab and western nations demanding in response. and the libyan authorities have regained control of tripoli international you want to be seen as groups of dozens of militia men have been arrested after storming the facility and demanding the release of one and they need. there's more inside so from tom hartman in the big picture in just a few moments. longtime

harmon in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture if you want to take away the voting rights of thousands of citizens we're going to call the koch brothers what is the koch brothers role in florida's war on voting and will governor scott listen to the department of justice and stop the voter purge also most people were depressed by the new job numbers that came out friday republicans were surprisingly chipper as a failing economy really make them happy that and more in the monday politics and over the several last.