i'm not a huge classical music fan, but i listen to a lot of beethoven. >> beyond beethoven, what do you like to listen to? >> i listen to dylan a lot. >> enough said. and the classic category, don't get much better than beethoven. >> my wife keeps up on what's happening and my daughter is currently in music. i'm not quite trying to be there. >> again, i repeat in the classical genre it doesn't get much better than beethoven. in the folk arena, dylan is about as good as it gets. >> he's a rocker, too. >> you have got two good ones. the movie is called fontero. wonderful cast. as we said earlier, it will allow you to not take a side but wrestle with the humanity of these characters. it has some twists and turns in it that you will find of interest. you keep working on surfing and i will work on the dancing thing. >> you work on the dancing. >> yeah yeah. good to see you. that's our show for tonight. thank you for watching and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> join me next time for a conversation with the incomparable

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. >> in 700 years, beethoven, bo didly. same notes. it's amazing to make those notes yours.ve got to really know what you're doing to pull it together and feel like it represents you. >> speaking of those same 12 notes, when you were really just a kid and met clark terry, you gave him a song that you had written as a kid that he took back to the band. >> yeah. they kind of adopted me back then. they always used to tell me young blood step into my office, let me pour you a cold one. the hip hop slang is all from jazz and all. home boy was used 90 years ago. and cribs. i remember when i first went to new york. we knew all the stuff. he said hey, can i stash my ax in your crib for a few ticks while i catch a few zs? >> it's a language. >> it's like a prison language. and in italian job, i used it in a lot of songs. it is, it represents the same thing. michael said to me, he was born the same year, month, day, and hour. >> you and michael cain? >> yes. great cat. he taught me how. he said you don't say the rhyming words. that's the trick. s because you love clark terry so much.

when we think of revelations in 1960, we think about it sort of when we think of beethoven or somethingat. you know what i mean? you have to measure it that way. not really that old. the civil rights movement was so long ago. i am like, "not really." i think that work represents a part of our american history. yes, the same song. but we know if we forget that song, we, we will go back to it in a way that is not good. so that it is a way to remind us of our history. stow we won't repeat it. >> never get old for me. glad you are in l.a. coming this way, seems like once a year. and we are always awaiting their arrival. i keep praying one of my, tenth sea son of doing this show, almost 2,000 shows now. one of my dreams is one day to have a stage big enough where i can do an interview with you and the company dancing throughout the show. that's like a dream i have. this place isn't quite big u.n. i will work on that in the next ten years. robert, good to have you alicia. thank you. alvin ailey. i love him. and keep the faith. >> for more on the show, visit tavissmiley.org. >> hi, ichl's'm ta

you know, i was playing beethoven and things like that.a sudden i hear this record, big five, i said, man, i love that. so from that day on, i start, you know, learning those chords and listening to more jazz, being exposed to people like bret powell, silver, charlie parker. jazz was the love of my life. then like in the early sixes, barcelona. it was a period in brazilian music where fantastic melodies, fantastic songs, and came to united states the first time in 1962. they had a concert at carnegie hall. so i arrived, i think, 20 years old, arrive at carnegie hall. gillespie, and i was there with them, so for me, wow, i love this. that's it. and the next day i went to hear, he invited me to do an album with him. so it's been magical, my life, actually, my journey. that's why i call this album "magic." the whole thing is beautiful, i'm blessed, and i'm lucky. it's a magical process, the magic of the encounter, i think, meeting and greeting people in your life that open doors for you and introduce you to new things. i love to learn. i'm ve

and they are going to be doing a lot of beethoven this year.lso fabulous piece by local -- a composer, mason bates, called "alternative energy." it was great whether it was premiered here a couple -- when it premiered here a couple of years ago. >> and the saxophonist joshua r redman, brings the trio october 2nd. >> later in the season, two other great saxophonists, charles lloyd, reuniting with the master, and rodney coltrain. he's going to be here later in the year. and he's going to re-imagine his dad's love supreme. john coltrain's "love supreme." should be an amazing show. >> let's talk about the beckett and brandi clark and jennifer ned else comi nettles. >> i'm excited. i may be the only one paying attention to brandi clark's career. she's best known for a song called "stripes," in which she resists killing her husband only because she doesn't want to be mean? prison stripes or prison orange. >> she also has a very amazing song called "his hands, "about domestic violence. we have a little pit of that. let's take -- little bit of that. le

. >> if the audience would vote they would be voting for mozart and beethoven every week. >> it's importantrtant we keep giving them in a fresh way, but also the key word for me is to cultivate a certain trust that the audience increasingly is trusting if i will program that piece they will be intld even if i don't -- interested even if i don't know it. >> jim gardner full one on one interview with philadelphia's international superstar is monday night at 11:00 p.m. >>> here's a look at what's happening in and around this weekend. arts in the estuary festival. at the st. john reserve and john dickenson plantation. from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. >>> head to lindvilla or chards forren -- orchards for an apple festival. stay for the pie eating contest for bushels of fun. >>> happening dozens of museums in our area are taking part in the 10th annual museum day live. the annual event is sponsored by smith -- smithsonian magazine. go to our website for details clicking on museum day >> you may want to sneak away to the beach if you can this weekend, a live look at atlantic city. a nice, warm temper

i loved ba ed beethoven, bach, welzer. he was a person brought up in ta culture, in white america.ink when he was coming to kenya, that balmy summer 20-odd years ago, he was trying to find out more about his african roots. the book talks about that. >> what are we to make of the fact that here you're his brother and you've met, but you haven't had a lot of contact. how many times have you been with him now? you talk about it in the book, first met in '88 and met before the inauguration. how many times? >> we've met a number of times. >> what was the number? >> the most significant times have actually been about three of them. and those were the first ones in beiji beijing, then also in austin, texas. we've been in contact since this presidential election and so forth. the most recent was actually at the last inauguration. >> but i played all this about spread the wealth and everybody is paying their fair share and americans can afford to pay more and be our brother's keeper. there are five siblings from your father. >> yes. >> so in all honesty it's less than a dozen the times you'

when the music of mendelson was being performed, people did clap after that first moment, when beethoven'sony was performed after the second movement, they clapped so much they had the repeat the second movement. there was a different vibe. people today when they say you're not supposed to clap, historically it's incorrect and i enjoy... when i hear people clapping at the wrong times, i think that's great. we have a listener that's not used to going, we have a new listener. that excites me. >> but you don't want to discourage that. >> i don't. i've had conductors, played with conductors that turn around to the audience and say, don't clap, and i'll usually turn to the audience and say, come on, do it, do it. >> we often hear about the crisis of classical music, right, about the aging audience, about the... do you sense that? what do you see? >> i think people have been talking about the aging audience for 100 years now. and somehow people keep replacing those older people because i think the problem is that classical music, so often we come to it late in life, as you're looking for somethi

9 that i liked very much at that time but i like all the symphonies so every time i hear beethoven's symphonies and that one in particular i think about what happened in that particular situation but i also say in the book which is true that from then on i did what she told me. i stayed out of white folks's things and if i didn't i just tell from. >> host: was that woman's that because you touched her things and because you listening to music that wasn't appropriate for you? >> guest: it wasn't clear to me why she was upset. later i decided she didn't understand why i would be listening to classical music and telling her how great it was. that was somehow offensive, touching her things and she didn't tell me to and 2, i am listening to classical music which i didn't know it was classical music, i just knew it was music and i am telling her how great it is and how could i, given who i was and where i came from, like that and tell her is that i liked it? it was incomprehensible to her and sellout of place. what in the sense they used to call being ability. here you are acting like some

physics is cool, but show, beethoven are my idols. don't you want more he said?nonplus i stared at him. what more is there? thousands of years of western culture. there's so much more to learn and will come back to kenya. of course my family is here, but my homeless or my family is. if they lived in america, that would be my home. it's hard enough getting a telephone service here. who knows. barack into side. i try to change the topic again. how do i kenya so far? i like it. i'm having a good time he said casually. his eyes on the placemat, his hands casually resting on the table like a poker players. the next section talks a little bit about the club and it takes place in china. let me see if i can grab that. who's been to china over here? wow, a lot more people. the gentleman in the front, where did you go? shenyang, okay. the u.s. and chinese? great. another international family. that's great. you know, china is an amazing place. you know, that people are amazingly warm and welcoming. in many ways, sometimes you have to be away from the things you're close to.

and i say in the book that -- that experience forever clouded my enjoyment of beethoven, and actually number 9 i liked very much that time, but i liked all of the symphonies. so every time i hear beethoven symphonies and that one in particular, think about what happened in that particular situation. but i also say in the book, which is true, that from then on i did what my aunt told me. i stayed out of white folks' things, and if i didn't i just didn't tell them. >> host: was that woman upset because you touched her things or because you were listening to music that wasn't appropriate for you? >> guest: well, at 12 -- i wasn't entirely clear to me why she was so upset. and i as i thought about it later i decided that, one, she didn't understand why i would be listening to this classical music and telling her how great it was. that was somehow offense simple. one, i'm touching her things and the didn't tell me to. and, two, i'm listening to classical music -- i didn't know it was classical music -- and i'm telling her how great it is, and how could i, given who i and where i came from

so every time i hear beethoven's symphonies and not one in particular, i think about what happened in that particular situation. but i also say in the book, which is true that from then on i did when they had told me. i stayed out of white folks things and if i didn't, i just didn't tell them. >> host: was that woman upset because you touched her things are because you are listening to music it wasn't appropriate for you? >> guest: well, at 12 but wasn't entirely clear to me why she was so upset. as i thought about it later, i decided one, she didn't understand why it would be listening to this classical music and telling her how great it was, that was somehow offend this. i'm touching her things and she didn't tell me to. and two, i am listening to classical music, which i didn't know was classical music. i just know his music. and i am telling her how great it is. and how could i., given who i was and where i come from like that and tell her it was just like incomprehensible to her in so out of place. it is what in the sense they used to call it the uppity. reviewer acted like somet

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