tonight, a conversation with drummer and composer stewart copeland. he will always be defined and in part remembered by his time with the police and inducted into the rock 'n roll hall of fame. he is in a comp list movie composer having written scores for wall street and francis ford coppola's rumble fish. and the 1925 silent version of - ben hur. stewart copeland, coming up, right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: stewart copeland has been named by rolling stone as one of the most influential drummers of all of rock music history. for his time at the police, those days earned him six grammy awards and saw him inducted into the rock 'n roll hall of fame. he has written scores for movies like wall street and has performed his own work with orchestras around the globe. he will perform is own composition. let's start with a look at a clip. ♪ ♪ why ben hur? >> it came to me years ago. . got a call the german impresario was building a show. they were doing the chariot race, the whole thing. europe and

misty copeland is set to become a breakout ballet star. one of the only elite black ballerinas, and she's wondering why there aren't more like her. here's "nightline" and "gma" anchor dan harris. ♪ >> reporter: two surprising things to know about misty copeland who's a soloist at the prestigious american ballet theater. first, her day in this supposedly dainty, genteel world is phenomenally rigorous. there are professional athletes who probably couldn't handle your day. >> yeah. it takes more strength than a lot of athletes put in. >> reporter: the second surprise, how she rose to the top of this elite art form. >> i had no real direction or real motivation to become anything. >> reporter: copeland let an impoverished childhood in the los angeles area along with her siblings and her single mom in a hotel. >> we were pretty much homeless and living in a motel trying to scrape up enough money to go to the corner store and get cup a noodle soup to eat. it was the worst time in my childhood when ballet found me. >> reporter: more specifically,

brian copeland, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. pleasure. >>> joining me now for a look at other stories we're watching is scott shafer. hi scott. >> hi, thuy. >> four major tech companies settled a class action lawsuit and basically employees alleged that apple, google and others had an anti-poaching agreement to prevent them from stealing each other's employees. what do we know about the settlement? >> the parties themselves didn't reveal anything but reuters reported that the company has agreed to pay out some $324 million to the 64,000 employees that were part of this class action lawsuit. if it had gone to trial they were expecting to ask for as much as $3 billion. so they got a lot less than they might have gotten but they got the certainty of some kind of a settlement and so they don't to go to trial which could have dragged on and who knows what happens when you put it before a jury. >> what concerns besides the fact that there might have been a long trial, what concerns did the tech companies -- apple, google, intel -- hav

we want to have an injury took it away from the check point copeland we broke up until that happened to break up the ukrainian club meeting how can i the taunting of the wicket but the current medical care. neither of them like the cat will come and take a careful look at human speech in front of the army barrack there. the company two to three hundred people can either keep it including me that the book. you can walk into my quilting before ateneo on the continent the remainder of the national guard and eight trying to make it late to the copeland to talk to the field. some of the week and wanted to look into that option. in countries where the agent. he has the unique areas. i am now we'll talk about. and easy to get you to know ukrainian the card with a co production to take a peek at the top of the new falcon. take a drink and two hundred and fifty armored vehicle in the peak of where i am in the ukraine. all the things we update the chromosome at the zoo cent. we'll meet some people i pull a vehicle to get information about the growing pressure on washington this in ukraine have

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theart copeland composed soundtrack. he was the drummer for the rock group the police. in aam a guy who played rock band and i wrote an orchestral piece. i wrote this humongous piece in support of this even bigger humongous film. a black and white silent film made in 1925. i get to be very loud because it is silent. i went down to istanbul to get the exotic elements, the weird horn playing and a one stringed violin. it is deep in the ethnicity of the region. i was worn in the united states. my folks moved to cairo. out to havem turns been important. because just technically, mechanically, it is strangely parallel to west indian music. the reggae drop the. -- drop beat. ♪ drummers are sensitive because we're not sure that we are musicians. insist that we are. i come from a background, my father was in jazz and my mother was into classical. i was raised on stravinsky and buddy rich. i am a rock and roller. i am a guy who grew up with e, a, and b chords. sweat inssion break a my pieces. i want 90 guys to burn down the building. i know they can do that. >> "ben hur" as you

welcome back brian copeland. >> it is a pleasure to be here. >> good to have you here. >> over 700 performances over

a product line manager for the company was paired with sierra copeland three years ago. most of their interactions are done on-line and benita says she was initially surprised by the questions she received from sierra. >> what are my interests, what kind of book does i read. what do i do when i'm a little frustrated at work. don't you have issues at work, how do you manage. i have seen her grow and be very mature in her conversations with me. >> sierra whose focusing on electromechanical engineering says that she along with ptech have open odd her eyes to the opportunity in a career and fields dominated by men for years. >> i can make something out of myself with this degree so i'm not just another stereotype. because that is a stereotype that all women cook and they don't build and they don't wire and they don't program. >> srennivasan: ibm stanley littout stopped short of promising jobs to ptech students once they graduate but de say they will have the skills the company is looking for to fill entry level position that include software specialists and tech support repr

. >> misty copeland's presence on stage is described as breathtaking.rough in ballet is just as spectacular, beginning much later than most taking classes at a california boys and girls club. >> starting at age 13, there was so much talk around me. talk of me being a prodigy, talk of me having these abilities. >> now she's making history with every leap. as only the third woman of color to be a featured soloist with renowned american ballet theater. >> i was just working so hard because it was so new to me at that age when i became professional. i didn't have the chance to step back and notice and realize that i was by myself. i was the only black woman in the company. >> for the young soloist that created challenges that she had not anticipated. >> i went through a period where i felt really alone and like i had no one i could relate to. >> and she had to come to grips with the idea that some barriers have not yet been broken. >> i would have a completely different path if i weren't an african-american ballerina. if i were of another race, i'd have a c

plus, comedian brian copeland brings back his hit one-man show "not a genuine black man." >> i don't talk ghetto. when i hear the word "ax" i think of it as a noun. [ laughter ]

plus, comedian brian copeland brings back his hit one-man show "not a genuine black man." >> i don'talk ghetto. when i hear the word "ax" i think of it as a noun. [ laughter ]

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plus, comedian brian copeland brings back his hit one-man show "not a genuine black man." >> i don't talk ghetto. when i hear the word "ax" i think of it as a noun. [ laughter ]

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an official online poll to break away from the far right several regions of the year in keating's copeland and sponge plenty of seeking independence. residents in australia's northeastern state of queensland and anabolic agent after a powerful strike that had the highest so far theres no information casualties but no one has been milked held in several communities this week and is now heading north causing thousands of others to seek help. the subjects who takes an insatiable and accused of assisting a criminal quantity of course he's in the us and beyond get to teach ins to grind the nsa surveillance kendall percent of the ui for the past trying to accept a prestigious genesis award when i went with sudden and announce he's in a sissy chicken or fourth seed in each town to find a chance to expose top level. the deed nice and stronger than that you'll see all my first anniversary since the major nsa surveillance scandal was leaked by former state contractor edwards no one can spread throughout the world by aei journalist glenn greenwald and his colleagues for their investigative reporting

that for the majority of locals and safe for animal rights are fast becoming a major topic in the copeland soaps point period of teeth and say got to get to the end of the house of local park. i am when i do. and. like any good. we have light. yes it was the queen of the information in the eye with a profit. he could take them to stall. one woman a moment. you'll get a husband in tow. i'm happy to have it many feature all their son house. many men some new material standing in the sink all the chips on the cityscape the bonds. it is the industry codes costing up to eighty thousand dollars janiak is an article to sign the fed cuts with twenty as the sea. no clue what i get sometimes. it is based on what you see on tv. if it's a post that way. and if anyone sees them wearing pockets instead. i guess they must follow that tends to get further and meaningful. ever wonder how many animals hesitate to make a fat kind finding that think that i wanted to fall for. now if the fox fur coat. it was taken by him at the end of the text in one coat for me now if i wanted to make a card for someone to fi

then stewart copeland the drummer for the police and joined up with an old friend of mine, a classical shankar's daughter is coming with people from newfoundland to create a six people, sixtet of different kind of music from different parts of the river. i have ethiopians doing music of that area and talking about water sustainability. we hope to put into the university. okay, we have a few people. io yo-yo man. >> and tony bennett. >> yes. >> michael feinstein is coming. >> and the plan, sandy, is that once the program is built and the people come, then that will be something that can give back to the university. not only from the cultural perspective, just from building a super program that will attract talent. >> for example, if we get 25% of our students come from outside the state of catch that would pay a 20 or $25,000 surcharge above the $5,000 that and in-state student would pay, you know, that's 40 or 50 or $60 million we would have. right now, our whole budget from the state of california is $49 million and this is a beautiful place for school. the school was voted, has the b

assets copeland could inherit if it votes for independence out signs like to get the best divorce settlement. and welcome to our international twenty four hour news life for most of iowa thanks for joining us a massive fire broke out in the heart of the ukrainian capital after a fire rival rally clashed head on was local pro-government activists these are pictures from my town square the focal point of the uprising which toppled the old administration in february. the violence broke out one a nationalist march was a blogger by the so called self defenders of my done too much wearing crowd had come out to commemorate protestors killed in the square during the february riot police calls were sent in to break up the brawl and several injuries were reported . ukraine's interim president admits the country's security forces are unable to quell protests in the east that's after so-called self-defense forces seized the city council and police building in goal of the latest city hit by unrest so kiev is being put under growing pressure by on to government protests and demands for greater autonomy no