we know about bach, about hayden, mozart, beethoven.ounger generation after beethoven, they were maybe ten years old, maybe six years old. and then the same happened in marinsky. one of the last visits of tchaikovsky to the marinsky appeared to to be one of the first with his mother holding his hand, of igor stravinski who i am sure was maybe 7 years old, maybe 8 years old. >> rose: but he had influence on him. >> he is the genius of the 20th century. but he just obviously he blessed him. obviously it was expected of him, tchaikovsky was a god to that boy. but one, closing his page without too many words, just that and the line is continued. and stravinski took it over. so these are very symbolic things and i think we always have to remember that whatever we do, is just another small process of continuation of huge, like an ocean it moves somewhere. so in the classical music, this is what we are. we are small, maybe important but small part of a huge ocean of music which is performed over the world. all the time. >> rose: brilliantly sa

they play good music and when they play beethoven, for example, they play with beethoven's spirit and believe they are like him. but that's not the case. >> as chief conductor, kurt masur coaxed the most out of the world's top orchestras. the gewandhausorchester in leipzig, the new york philharmonic orchestra, and the london philharmonic orchestra. >> never use rrrrrh....dada dieda dieda die ... it's so harsh very often. >> kurt masur also brought the paris orchestra to the top of european league. >> immediately the orchestra fall in love with him, his way to work, his character, his dynamism, lot of points that orchestra like in a conductor. >> it was something new for us and for me it was -- now i can't play without thinking of him, because i can't, i can't play one note without something inside. and it is him. >> masur was born in 1927 in silesia, which is now in poland. he studied conducting in leipzig, but quit shortly before his exams when a theater offered him a job as bandleader. >> when this offer came, it was clear to me i better take it because with the exams either i was g

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who was bitten beethoven and most of them said it was a dog. not long ago i also read another report. by some us university me. investigations that. ninety five percent. of. the money that is circling around us has something to do with cocaine if i can just take a look at what is happening to this society what it has come to with i'm going to home that they have been. i think that they see everything upside down or at least part of the world and there are so many more people there and there are dictatorial but it's legislations there and you know that there's tyranny of true. or oppression and there present the true democracy so it's difficult to imagine the destiny of the society and of course we need to hope for the better and we need to positively know that one day. soon. the winds from the south will come and could calm and change. the north of the americas. i am talking about the whole world and general solomon about hurricanes. from from africa for examples as beautiful continent where supposedly we all call from according to the investig

i sold about 0 million records to the shock of my mother and father because i was always playing beethoven. i bought my mother a mink stole and she said, i think this is better than bait toven. they just signed elvis presley and it was a new teen age market, and our -- r.c.a. was distributed all over the world, so i got to -- to be heard and -- in every country in the world and i didn't want to be a rock and roller. i wanted to be a bobby daryn because he was the -- the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated, so i played the copa and i played all of these adult places. and i got to sing in had five different languages, all over the world. and that is what kept me alive. during those hungry years. i went all over and sang in italian, and spanish, and german, french, all over. >> wow. >> yeah. >> now here you are, these years later with the children's book called "waking up is hard to do" that title rinse a bell. it rings a bell. >> you're right, the third version, the first one i wrote as a rock and roll song. down douby down. and then 13 years later i redid it as a slow balad. "don't

own country recently there was research carried out by us institute young people were asked who beethoven and they all sit in a dog recently i read another report from the us is suggesting that ninety five percent of all they could banknotes in washington have traces of cocaine on them but as well society has become with all due respect to the men and women living there i think they see the world from the wrong side moreover there are forty million poor people that are absolutely dictatorships there are laws and repressions and persecution there in the us there really is tyranny but is represented as a model for democracy that's why it's hard to imagine the future for this is a society. what impression did this visit to russia leave on you. impression the impression that we're going to get the right way and that we're building the future we've dreamt of we've saw in so many important treaties in power engineering or oil and gas agriculture and transportation we will be glad to import russian lauda cars to venezuela and deliver coffee cocoa and been known as to russia we've got a very cons

this is the bait hohn -- beethoven statue. it is not a hidden place. this is 3:00 in the afternoon. i know you have staff around and the skateboarders are chronicly all over & think they need to be reminded this is inappropriate in more than a reminding sort of way. i -- can i be very brief? >> very. >> i like to point out that three years ago the board of supervisors recommended that waller become a skating area. in april of 2009 several of you stood with -- with at the time jarrod and approved this space would be made a skate wording area. i have made a -- suggestions along with the skateboard association for things that could be done there that would cost nothing. we're told that the people that where going to design the skateboard area in line to improve temporary structures there so the skateboarders would have a place to skate. i suggest you direct staff that we move with this as quickly as possible because skateboarding is not going away. we need to deal with it. >> thank you so much. >> good afternoon, commission, general manager. staff as well. >> i'm speaking in behalf of

this is the bait hohn -- beethoven statue. it is not a hidden place. this is 3:00 in the afternoon. i know you have staff around and the skateboarders are chronicly all over & think they need to be reminded this is inappropriate in more than a reminding sort of way. i -- can i be very brief? >> very. >> i like to point out that three years ago the board of supervisors recommended that waller become a skating area. in april of 2009 several of you stood with -- with at the time jarrod and approved this space

. >> i thought that was beethoven. we have some great weather coming up. the seven-day forecast in just a few minutes. >> i am still trying to figure out what song that was. your morning commute looking your morning commute looking very smooth so far. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in hd. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back. i am stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. let's get a check on weather and traffic. we have been discussing television. >> there are a few stations in north carolina that run the " andy griffith show." they love it. you cannot lose. i think you will like the forecast. this storm is finally gone. it has been bringing us the clouds and chilly temperatures. there is some cloud cover out there this morning. we will wind up with mostly sunny skies. look at the high temperature -- 71. yesterday the high temperature was 59. we will continue that trend into the weekend. >> it will be nice to see the sun. we do have one problem if you travel and havre de grace. there is

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if you think "violin concerto," there's a well- established and much-loved repertoire, including beethovenyes, tchaikovsky. so how do you write one in the 21st century? >> you kind of have to take a leap of faith. you start writing, and hope that the ideas will come and you try not to think about the fact that history is sitting on your shoulder, basically. it can be intimidating. because i know hilary and i know hilary's playing, it means that i thought about all the things she does well on her instrument. and she does a lot. >> brown: such as? >> such as being able to make these incredible leaps, interval leaps on the finger board. but also this beautiful sound on her instrument, low down, low in the register, high on the register. so you start thinking about what can i write that will show off this player? >> brown: the members of the old city string quartet, here working on schubert's "death and the maiden," were among the curtis students involved in the earliest rehearsals of the higdon concerto. they say they enjoyed working directly with the composer, and the results. >> it speaks i

my favorite artists were edgar allen poe and beethoven and oscar wilde. i'm a writer. i'm moody.t i thought i wanted to achieve, you know, had success and a great family and a big house, i went -- it hit me. depression came roaring back. and i realized what i thought would heal me, which is success and my dreams come true, is -- doesn't heal you. and so, that was when i truly labeled it i was more than just a moody guy. >> right. serious depression. >> yeah. very, very serious. you know, i've been through therapy. and i deal with it in certain ways. i meditate. it's something that rides with me. i know it rides with a lot of people. because i've been fairly open about it. and dr. d is really excited to be on national television, too. he's really happy about that, too. >> let me ask you this. is your wife happy about this? your beloved wife, barbara. been married more than 25 years. you're very open in the book. you talk about, you have not been faithful. you don't say sex addict. and there was a reason you didn't use that word, though it did seem, in reading your book, rick, that