>> rose: welcome to the program. alan gilbert is the music collector and conductor of the new york philharmonic. he talks about us about his leaving the new york philharmonic, his visions for the future and reflects on music and its role in our life. >> at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter how you play something. it's the fact that you give it your full measure of sincerity. and you bring something fresh and magical to the equation. there's so manyive ways to be a conductor, so many different ways to approach any given piece, what i mean by artistic magic is something that is fresh and convincing. >> rose: alan gilbert for the hour, next. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: alan gilbert is here. he has serves the as the director of the new york philharmonic since 1999. he has said he will st

>> in part. >> rose: you did. >> in part i did. >> rose: you felt guilty. >> yes. >> rose: how did youress it to them. >> i don't know if i ever said i should have come back. i don't think i ever used those words. >> rose: because andrew cuomo at that time couldn't apologize. >> those words would be too hurtful for both of us, for both of us. but he knows, he knows how i feel. it was a tough place. i had always been helpful to him obviously from his first campaign. i was in washington, i had started a new family. i was an assistant secretary at the department of housing and urban development which is a big deal. it's a senate-confirmed position, etcetera. and i wasn't that position to leave my family, leave my job and go back to new york. i don't know that it would have made a difference. but, do i feel that in the just loyalty family sense i should have been there? yes, i do. >> rose: he also had this thing that he liked to come back to albany and sleep in his own bed. >> always, from anywhere. >> rose: even if he was in san francisco the highlights of his life, the famous speech. tha

rose: early?. 9ish 10ish. >> rose: after breakfast. >> i don't eat breakfast. one slice of toast and i carry the second cup of coffee and think this is delicious. i've got three or four hours. >> rose: of just me and my work. >> yes. >> rose: i have to get up early because of the morning show. it's okay because i don't like it take me down. it's lovely, it's lovely because i'm in a place where i can look out over central park and i can see everything. but it's quiet, it's the sense that you are in a quiet place. and things are moving in slower speed. >> the phone doesn't ring. >> rose: the phone doesn't ring.g) >> and you feel rested and you're at the top. some exciting times i write all night. it's a heroic feeling. you just plunge on into the night in the dorm. >> rose: the book is called the children's act. as you know, he's a much praised english novelist. thank you. >> thank you charlie. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captione

>> rose: welcome to our program. tonight, one of the world's foremost cancer researchers, nobel laureate, sir paul nurse. >> what i quite like being in charge of the institution is not exercising power. because when you're in an academic institution, what you have is-- let's take rockefeller university-- 70 brilliant minds. i shouldn't be exerting power over them. i should be liberating them. >> rose: sure. >> so they can actually generate all their creativity and do everything they want to do. so by being in charge and not exercising power, i actually empower my colleagues. >> rose: sir paul nurse for the hour next. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. additional funding provided by these funders: in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that

, rose was published 15 years later.ot to mention the recollections of their lives with her friends. so there was rich rich material to work from and i would urge all of you to save your letters, keep diaries, give his history and something to work from. after divorce rose of a matter of principle refused alimony and she was reduced to poverty again. she remarried but to someone as poor as she was, very soon came down with cancer and died at the age of 53 in 1933. graham also remarried but without a leap out of his class this time and lived onto the age of 88 dying in 1960. so that is their story. i wish i could say that they change the world, they did not but perhaps through their eyes we can see a world that needed changing and it can still use changing today. i hope you are getting to know them as much as i did. so one i stop right there, if you have questions or comments i would be glad to hear them. [applause] come to the microphone if you have something you want to ask. here is someone coming, can you make it to th

rose: t tour i.r.s. attacks of september 11 took place ten years ago sunday. many say new york, our country, and the world will never be the same. the events on9/11, 2001, took the lives of nearly 3,000 people. one decade later on a warm fall sunday in new york, the 10th anniversary of the attack on america was commemorated at the newly completed national september 11 memorial at the world trade center site. more than 10,000 members of the victim's members families were. there also present, president ama and first lady michelle obama, former president and first lady george w. bush and laura bush, governors, senators, the former and the present mayor of new york city. it was a day to reflect and remember. there were six moments of silence-- twice to mark the precise times each plane crashed into the towers, twice to mark whenhe towers fell, and twice marking when the planes crashed in virginia at the pentagon and in shanksville, pennsylvania. poignant songs and music were performed by paul simon, yo-yo an

: music and dance, next. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >>> misty copeland is here. last month, she became the first african-american woman to be named a principal dancer in american ballet theater's 75-year history. the news came just a few days after her new york debut in swan lake. she began her ballet training at the unusually late age of 136789 in the two decades since, she overcame numerous obstacles to achieve the highest honors in dance and become a rare pop culture celebrity. here's a look at her recent profile on cbs 60 minutes. >> misty copeland will tell you she's never more alive than when on stage on her toes, her athleticism and grace on full display. she can leap through the air, she can spin on a dime. she can make you believe she's the swan. you feel comfortable up there. >> yes, something happens when you feel that

and information services worldwide. >> from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: these women and men lead important lives. they enriched society through their passion, their art and their enterprise. over the last 24 years they came to this program for conversation. here's a look back at those moments. >> they didn't ask for much except the opportunity to make it. but my father, ironically, who was a ditch digger, had more important than a lot of people in new york city today who are educated. he had a job. he was only a ditch digger, but there was a ditch to be dug. and somebody handed him a shovel and said go to it, and he worked. for the most fundamental things you can give people is an opportunity to earn their own bread. with dignity and with a chance to move up. that, my father had. it's kind of ironic. he didn't have much else. but you gave him the chance to make it on his own. we're not doing that for people now. >> rose: but the quarrel seems to be how do you best do that. >> oh, yeah. i think one of the worst things you can do in trying to provide the a

>> i did. >> rose: why? >> i knew i wanted to be a lawyer pretty early on in my life, and i think i knew i wanted to be a prosecutor even before i went to law school, and then once i was in law school and i realized the kinds of things you can do with the practice of law, i, i found really amazing and i think there are a lot of people in the world who spend a lot of their life waiting for an opportunity to make a difference and make a change in their communities or in their countries, and so many people, too many people never get that chance and i think if you become a prosecutor and your only responsibility and mission is to make the country and the community a little bit safer and better and do what is right, there can be no more gratifying job than that. and more specifically when i was in law school, i took a class on trial practice, with some very fine folks and realized that there is nothing that compares to the compilation of trying a case in front of a jury. >> rose: did you watch to kill a mockingbi

funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: cyrus vance junior is here, the district attorney from manhattan. he is only the fourth person to hold the post in the last 75 years. he is now serving his second term in office. in a recent pro fail for "the new york times" magazine chip brown wrote in some ways it may be easier to be the district attorney in manhattan in an era where new yorkers aren't inclined to do terrible things to one another, and yet manhattan da's office still handles more cases than the entire united states department of justice. he has recently voiced his concerns about cybersecurity and other issues. i'm pleased to have him at this available. welcome. >> thank you so much. >> it's great to you have here. >> it's great to be here. >> as you know and we were talking abou

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: michael porter is here, he is a university professor at harvard, a distinction held by only 1% of the faculty. "forbes" magazine described him as the all time great strategy guru and the most famous an influential business professor who has ever lived his ideas on strategy have influenced business people and policymakers around the world. his aim is to shape the debate about america's competitiveness. last year he launched harvard business school's u.s. competitiveness project. its purpose is to answer one of the most challenging questions america faces today. how do we ensure the united states leads in the global economic arena. i'm pleased to have michael porter back at this table. welcome. it's been a while. great to have you here. >> yes, sir, thank you, charlie, my pleasure. >> let me do this because i've referenced with this with you before. it seems it would be great to be a university professor. for this big reason: it's a distinction, but you get to range over the di

>> rose: welcome to the program. tonight a look at the world of private equity with steve schwarzman the cofounder and ceo of the blackstone group. >> what we're doing at blackstone is we're committed to hire 50,000 veterans over the next five years. i feel really -- >> rose: 50,000. >> 50,000. we have quite a large operation in terms of one of our seven business lines which happens to be private equity. we own about 80 companies with $120 billion of revenue and 730,000 employees. so our ability to hire 50,000 shouldn't be really hard for us. >> rose: also actor alan cumming who currently stars in the scottish play at the barrymore theatre. >> what i go back to is that moment you're going to do something bad or elicit. the moment that you look at someone else in the eye and say let's do it. even in they are stealing a mastery, let's do it. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: steve schwarzman here, he's the ceo of the blackstone group. he cofoun

>> rose: welcome to our program. we begin this evening with the commissioner of the new york police department, ray kelly. >> so if you talk about legacy, this city has come so far from what we were faced with on january 1st of 2002. it is much safer. the feeling of safety is there, our department, police department is much more diverse. we have add add tremendous amount of technology andxd capability. i would submit to you that, and i have been around the department a long type, that our relationship with the many, many communities in new york, the most diverse in any world are better now than they have ever been. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the appreciation of whitney houston, who died in los angeles at age 48, joining me, can dab yen snim of billboard and jon pareles of "the new york times". >> when you heard her sing you went over there to turn up the volume, when her song came on the radio you stay in the car after you park until she finished. i mean, all you have to do is look at the star-spangled ba

captioning sponsored by rose communications >> rose: what's the object lesson here? >> i want a restaurant just like that. >> we begin with a look at the news of the week. here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. >> a deadly terror attack strikes new york city. >> at the annual halloween parade, new yorkers came out in force. >> i refuse to live in fear, absolutely not. >> in colorado, a deadly shooting at a walmart 10 miles north of denver. >> republicans are vowing to keep this morning's deadline to release their tax reform plan. >> the c.i.a. released a collection of videos and other materials recovered during a raid to capture osama bin laden. kevin spacey apologized following allegations he made sexual advances on a 14-year-old boy. >> big tech taking a stand on capitol hill and russia's meddling in the election. >> rose: new revelation in addition the russia investigation. >> we've been saying from day one there's been no evidence of trump-russia collusion, and nothing in the indictment today changes that at all. >> president trump is striking out

>> it happens. >> rose: right there. >> yeah. >> rose:. >> thank you so much. >> rose: continued success>> thank you. >> rose: jennifer lawrence for the hour, thank you for joining us. see you next time. >> for more about this program and early episodes visit us online as pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >> you are watching pbs. >> announcer: this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >>> this action marks the end of an extraordinary seven-year period during which the federal funds rate was held near zero to support the recovery of the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the great depression. >> the wait is over. the federal reserve raises interest rates, ending an unprecedented era of zero rate monetary policy. >> tonight, we'll tell you what that decision means for the economy, your investments,