people are still playing bach and beethoven. >> is beethoven the greatest composer of all time? >> i do not know. enough anything, you listen to his music now, it is soothing and you have to listen, they wrote in movements in those days. i listen and read this thing one time, reading up on beethoven. there was a point in his life when they were trying to ban his music. you know why? take a guess what it wanted to ban his music while he was living. tavis: i know about him losing his hearing. >> they said it was too sexy. they said it would arouse -- tavis: he was bringing sexy back. >> it would arouse the young ladies. if you could hear the music -- if they could hear the music they play today. tavis: the other part of the story, you know you are a bad boy when you lose your hearing and you still right. >> absolutely. tavis: unbelievable. >> he was music. it did not happen if he could hear it or not. he could hear it in his mind and write it down. hearing it in his mind. he was music. he is one of my favorite writers. tavis: tell me about this new project. what is looking robinso

beethoven's symphony. bach's piece. think about the conditions that bach worked in. tavis: that requires having a long view. >> it was right here and right now when he was alive. that's why they didn't like him. duke ellington's pieces are well documented with the whole boom in the electronic media, you can get all of this stuff. walt whitman, debating right now over mark twain. he is still available. winslow homer can still be seen. we have to understand this is an important legacy for our country. when you study our greatest artists, they will show us how to deal with each other and our blood lines are intertwined. it is not hyphenated america. it is expressed in those arts. it tells us who we are. we don't have to always speak in slogans. we are related. we have had a history on that land. we have gone through struggles and survived it and come out. it is documented. tavis: how does all of this that you have been putting to the here now impact your composing. i ask you that because you're not just a great artist. more and more you're kicking out these compositions

. >> beethoven. >> beethoven is how big? a beluga whale. they live in the arctic. when you are working with them, what basically are you doing with him every day? >> well, at our morning sessions we want to make sure we give every one of our whale -- >> i like the tongue pat. >> the tongue pat. he's got 34 big teeth in his mouth. he doesn't use those for cl chewing, they're used for grasp. >> everybody working with the whales, you have four of them this morning, they build the relationship. they actually build a relationship with you? >> absolutely. this is not a 9:00 to 5:00 job. we want to make sure we know these animals inside and out. >> you are just poetry under water, aren't you? absolutely beautiful. that's the way you'll see them from the aquarium, here at the georgia aquarium. it's amazing. about how long? >> about 15 feet long. >> beluga means "white?" >> it does. that's because they're subarctic animals. >> and because they live in salt water, when you give them fish, they're basically getting their hydration from

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