on my carnegie hall debut, i was 17.his before we went on our first european tour and it was awesome. i grew up with my teacher talking about carnegie hall and hearing stories about my idol and his carnegie hall debut in 1918 or whatever it was. i don't know the exact year. so walking out on that stage and knowing that all the great people that ever played there -- it was awesome. but i played my best that night. somehow, it inspired me to play my best. yeah, it was a special moment. a fascinating moment for me because there are so many moments where the expectation is so high and sometimes, as artists, we measure up and sometimes we are inundated in the moment t. what do you think it was about that particular night that allowed you to play your best? >> generally come under pressure, i feel i played better. i think the pressure helps me to get excited and focused. i feel lucky that that is the way that it affects me. there are great artists who are afraid to walk on stage and they suffer from it. something like carnegie

welcome. >> it has been 25 years since you made your debut at carnegie hall. >> yes. that is correct. and my recital debut but one with orchestra was a few years earlier, and i am really excited to perform on such an evening. >> rose: what will you perform? >> two world premiers by two world famous composer, one is andre premise and the other one is keisha la goal i can't and play schubert and other great polish composer, whose birthday we are celebrating and a fun piece at the end of the evening if we are st. louis alive. >> rose: very good. speaking of andre he said to me once in an interview in 2009 i have if i have to spend a day without composing or conduct aring or playing or listening to piewfk, it is a complete waste of time. >> rose: do you have the same love affair? >> he is such a multimy, multi-my, multiple my i have two children and not a conductor or composer, just a violinist so there are things i can do for my children and foundation and still be a good day even without music. >> rose: how important is this piece, this borjac piece you do. >> it is the

that is very addictive. >> after carnegie hall, where do you go? >> i go back home.lay for the president in germany. >> what will you play? >> the dvorak romance. i am in that mood. >> it is good to see you. it has been much too long. ♪ >> live from pier 3 in san francisco and new york city, welcome to "bloomberg west" where we cover the technology and news that are reshaping our world. our focus is innovation and the future of this and this. -- business. let's get straight to the rundown. a federal judge calls a u.s. government selection of phone records almost orwellian. it is a lawsuit, saying the surveillance is probably unconstitutional. it is called a phase print.

how do you get to the carnegie hall of your soul, of your life, to the concert hall where you make the best music inside your house, you practice. how do you practice, you change your behaviour. every day, it's very difficult. and you constantly are falling down and you have to constantly try to change it again. and what i love about the practice is you sit and you meditate and you try to simply do nothing but listen the sound of your breath and not have a thought. and the teacher up at the the monas terri, he said of all the creatures in the universe, the only one from the house fly to the rhinoceros they all rest in a waking state except man. mankind is the only one that doesn't rest while he's awake. and we were talking earlier, taking that little five minute nap. >> the power of the nap. >> i mean just take, you can literally feel the fat agency leaving you if you just let it go. >> yeah. >> you are at the gym, you know -- >> when i go to bet, i hit the pillow and i'm sleeping in a minute. >> and our brains are cellular material that are no different than your muscles. so if you ta

." >> he has played to sold out crowds in carnegie hall and on broadway. >> now singer and actor cheyenne album. it is called "i'm blue, skies." i love the title. so great to see you. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> hi. this is the first original cd. >> this one, you wrote the material. >> i did. >> so that's like your baby. >> as you know, you're giving birth to your own ideas and thoughts. it's vulnerable and exciting. >> can we hear a little bit? >> okay. ♪ i'm alive patiently waiting for love to arrive i'm blue sky ♪ ♪ i'm blue, skies >> okay so. ♪ i'm blue, skies i'm blue, skies ♪ >> i saw that video. you know, i think i saw it like where they posted it, they said great video. that's got to be fun, too. >> so fun. >> you sent me this video about two months ago. i was so -- i just thought it was fantastic. tell us about the title "i'm blue, skies." >> it's two-fold. it means -- you know, i went through a lot of transition this year and a lot of wonderful changes in my life. >> tough changes. >> tough changes, yeah, but you grow from that. and you learn from it. i'm blue, a litt

it has been 25 years since you made your debut at 25 -- carnegie hall. >> the one with the orchestrafew years earlier. but it was 25 years since i played with the orchestra. i was really excited to perform on saturday evening. >> what we perform? >> -- what will you perform? playing to feel dashed to pieces. we will also played schubert, polish composer, and a fun piece at the end of the evening if we are still alive. >> he said if i have to spend another day without composing, conducting, or playing music, is a complete waste of time. multi-talented musician, that it is -- i'm a mother, i made violinist. --ngs can be full of my >> is the last concerto i have not recalled it. much of the great repertoire i have recorded twice because it is necessary to revise what i've done as a teenager. dvorak come ---- concerto, i haven't played with an orchestra at 30 years. but to open the season at carnegie, it makes it a wonderful part of my history with the philharmonic orchestra. driving him to his best point. >> he was merciless in trying to change the objective yet. >> anything, you name i

, those who could play from side, and i thought, i am about to end up to teach them to play at carnegie hall. so i went home and i have the following conversation with my parents. if you find yourself in this position, mom and dad, i'm changing my major. >> were you changing your major to? >> i don't know. >> you don't know what you want to do with your life? >> welcome it's my life. >> well, it's our money, find a major. and i tried english literature, i hated it, i tried state and local government. my little project was to interview the city water manager of denver. and i thought, that's not it. the single most boring man. [applause] >> and then i wondered into an international politics class and he taught me about the soviet union and all of a sudden i knew what i wanted to do. and i went home and said that i wanted to be a soviet specialist. fortunately they didn't say what is a nice black girl from birmingham talking about being a soviet specialist, nato said go for it. so there are a couple of important lessons for young folks. no one is so confident that your age or even older that th

we went to the vienna boys choir at carnegie hall.y are sad songs. like "i'll be home for christmas"? >> "i'll be home for christmas." "white christmas," which written by a jewish man from russia. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he knows about christmas. >> the most heartbreaking song ever written. >> jimmy: "do they know it's christmas" is the on by band aid, which is, you know -- i loved that song growing up. if you listen to the words, it's like -- ♪ and the christmas bells are ringing the clanging chimes of doom ♪ [ laughter ] >> jimmy: did he just you say that? really? people get upset or have some emotional -- but they are very sad songs. maybe that's why i enjoy them. 25th anniversary of "murphy brown." can you believe that? >> no, no. >> jimmy: 25 years. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: ran for 10 seasons, what a great show. now it's finally being shown on syndication. >> yes. >> jimmy: why not? why hasn't it been shown? >> it's a feeble explanation. but they said the music rights because the show opened with a motown song every week.

halls. ♪ ♪ i love it! ♪ mom's posting pictures on your wall. ♪ ♪ that's my kind of holiday. >>> a teenager from san jose will receive a carnegie hero fund awarda 9-year-old slipped into the merced river and started floating toward the falls. the 16-year-old smith heard the mother cry and sprang into action. he sprang toward the boy, vaulted a guardrail and grabbed a rock with one hand and the boy with the other. the carnegie medal honors others who risk their lives to save others. it comes with a $5,000 prize. so fantastic. an american getting money there. >> absolutely, being reward for doing the right thing. good morning. we have very mild conditions for the by area. it's going to be a not-too-holiday-like for the rest of the week. we are getting reports of some very thick fog in san francisco with basically zero visibility. i'll have your full accuweather seven-day forecast and your game-day forecast for tomorrow coming up. >> lela, thank you. also ahead, the warriors try to rebound from their of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone 'round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a p