quartets, even before they know what a string quartet is or who beethoven was.and there should be wonderful reproductions of the great 20th-century paintings-- the cubists, the abstract expressionist paintings-- on the walls of these schools, so kids get used to hearing and looking at the arts as something--as an integral part of their lives. you need teachers who are anxious and capable of helping young people participate in the arts. i was very lucky. i mean, i didn't like my adoptive parents. that's why i left. but they educated me very well in private schools, and so i was exposed much more and much earlier than other people-- a lot of other kids were-- to the arts. and i'm very grateful for that. if we invest in that kind of education, we may end up with 12-year-olds writing sex farces all over this country. [laughter] (albee) welcome to the club, kids. [laughter] no, the problem is, you can't have this kind of education unless you have parents who are willing to allow this kind of education to occur. i mean, there's a lot of censorship in our school curric

. >> jon: is there anybody else in history, other than like beethoven, is there anybody that has thatnow of? would you even-- would you follow that? >> i think it's the first. >> jon: it's unbelievable. it's a remarkable thing. now, you have-- these are-- how many duets? >> about 19. >> jon: 19. who sucked? who was terrible? ( laughter ) >> they were all wonderful. really, i really mean it. they were all great. >> jon: no, i know. this is really nice. >> these are the most important, most popular young artists today that are doing very well. >> jon: and they're-- is there anybody that wouldn't? because i can't imagine-- if tony bennett calls you and says, "hey, man, you want to sing a song," i would think it was the honor of their years? >> well, i must say, my son is my wonderful manager for last 45 years, and he came up with this whole premise and i want to thank him for doing that. >> jon: that's danny. a good man, very nice guy. >> thank you. >> jon: he will, though, because i've worked with him before, getting you to do gigs, he will muffle you ( laughter ) he can be a vicious ma

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when you say bach and beethoven and all these people who shaped what music is, they all played the piano. >> to go from the lumber yard to the instruments you see here, it takes about a year to build a steinway piano. our first stop was the workshop where they make the frame. >> these are what we call laminations. they will be bent around the presses that you see around the room, and that will form the shape of the piano that everybody's familiar with. >> how do they bend the wood? >> we don't use any steam. we don't use any water. we don't use anything extra special to do this other than really brute force. >> in fact, these presses have been here since the late 1800s. the process was invented and patented by steinway. >> what'll happen is, we'll take those laminations. they'll run through what we call a glue wheel, which will put glue on both sides of those laminations. we'll bring it over to a press, and literally there are seven or eight guys that will manhandle those laminations around that press. they will put on what we call coles and presses, which are these things down here, and

rick perry chose "irmortal beloved" a 1994 drama about beethoven. >>> today, president obama announcedounds to circumvent what he characterizes as uncooperative congress. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reports whether that characte characterization is true, is in the eye of the beholder. >> in the latest skirmish involving the white house versus the congressional republicans, mr. obama issued two presidential memoranda, in effect going around lawmakers. >> the announcements are part of a series of executive actions to put americans back to work strengthen the economy. because we cannot wait for congressial republicans to act. >> at northwestern university, majority leader eric cantor said the house is doing its part. >> the house of representatives will be moving a bill to ease regulations on access to capital. so we can give the risk-takers a hand up to achieve their dreams. >> a spokesman for house speaker john boehner expressed frustration with the white house. "if the president wants to do something meaningful to create jobs he can start by working with republicans

he was also, on the other hand, very versatile in his knowledge of classical musicians like beethoven and mozart, and he was very familiar with the history of musical thought and even intellectual thought and even scientific thought, so there was a lot of facets to michael. he was a very sharp businessman. i saw him mostly when we were in a playful mood, and i never discussed business with him. once in a while he would bring up something about how everybody was trying to take advantage of him. but other than that, i never got into that aspect of his life. >> i want to take a short break. when we come back, i want to get down to what happened on the night michael jackson died, what your view is of the medical behavior that night of dr. conrad murray, from your expert opinion. it doesn't cover everything. and what it doesn't cover can cost you some money. that's why you should consider an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan... insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. all medicare supplement insurance plans can help pay... some of what medicare doesn't, so you could save...

you write about mozart, beethoven, and you suggest that madonna shouldn't be the only answer for people. what do you mean by that? >> guest: toward the end of this book, i felt i had to address the question of what should we do about all this? social do about all this? social critics are usually not very good at answering that question. their strong point is telling you the bad news. but i did try to say something positive, and i felt the answer might be in education. the idea there is that madonna and bruce springsteen and hollywood and cbs and all of that is not going to go away. our young people will have continuous access to them. i suggest, therefore, that in their schooling there should be an emphasis on more traditional forms of expression -- art, literature and otherwise -- not to blacken the reputation of the popular arts, but just to make sure that the young have access to different forms of understanding the world. perhaps in that way, there could be some sort of synthesis in their education. that is, there's the sort of person madonna and bruce springsteen wants our young to

she used to like to tell people she wanted to be beethoven's mother. that was her thing. she wanted to be the mother of this person. and my dad, although he was very busy politically, always found the time to support me, to set the right example for me, and i have an older sister, too, who is another hero of mine. and -- >> in your family, just taught to be very respectful. if someone older than you walked in the room, you should stand up. >> yeah, that's a southern thing, though. do they do that in england? >> england used to be a bit like that. i think it's lost its way in the last 25 years. it's nowhere near as polite. when i go down somewhere south here, dallas or houston, i'm always struck by people calling me sir and the level of natural politeness. >> it's true. >> much more pronounced here than it was in england any more. >> is that right? >> yeah. >> i remember the first date with my wife, i pulled the chair out so she could sit down. she said, oh, i would like to sit there. i'm pulling it out for you, baby. that's the way we were taught. the guy walks behind the