and i had had a debut with the-- with the symphony orchestra playing mozart at 13, but by the time i was 14, i had heard things like, um, ♪ 'twas in the merry month of may ♪ ♪ when the green birds were swellin'. ♪ ♪ a young man on his deathbed lay ♪ ♪ for the love of barbara allen. ♪ and you know, i think mozart and debussy paled in comparison, because i fell in love with folk music, and i never looked back. and i had this national guitar from the rental joint, and it cost--i don't know what it cost-- like $7 a week or something. and it came with jazz lessons. and so i went to the jazz lessons once, and then i abandoned the jazz lessons and concentrated on learning to finger and learning to play the bluetail fly and other songs. and then, of course, graduated to this land is your land and the songs of woody guthrie and the songs of what was becoming what my brother calls "the folk scare." and i loved the songs, and i loved the literature in the music. it was so appealing to me. what timing for a young woman who had a-- a social heart, who had a great voice, who had a national guitar,

. >>> and a piano believed to have been played by mozart has surfaced in germany. a german radio station says the instrument was built in 1775, one of only eight known to exist, created by a maker mozart was known to be a fan of. if authentic, experts say it could be worth millions. >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,674 after losing 5 points. the s&p went down a point. the nasdaq fell 10. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 11 points, but in hong kong the hang sang gained 127. >>> with wall street already nervously awaiting today's unemployment figures from the government, yesterday an unexpected rise in first-time jobless claims sent traders running for cover. the labor department reported initial jobless claims rose slightly last week to the highest level since early april. analysts expected a slight drop. >>> economists predicted today's government report for unemployment in the month of july will show a slight increase, thanks largely to temporary u.s. census b

almost in music with mozart where it is mindboggling how that happened. to be thankful that you are the recipient. as an artist you do get jealous. tavis: your name, your mother gave this to you? did she tell you why? >> who is your makeup artist? tavis: she loved. did she pay you to say this on tv? >> i should have tried that. but i'm -- what happened was my father's name is [unintelligible] and he had always resented that, so he did not want to give me iv, but he still wanted something unusual. you can really put anything with my last name. so they had a contest and my dad knew someone in high school who had the where his name. my mother knew something named oscar and rufus won. there was a funny story i was telling sheila. why was in a cab in d.c. and it was this old black cab driver and he was really nice. at one point he said what is your name? my name is rufus. he said, your name is not rufus. he said if your name is rufus, i am michael jackson. tavis: i think most brothers only know a couple of rufuses. i grew up in a church and my minister's name

. >> warmer temperatures this sector in, and a bit hotter inland. 5-10 degrees warmer than mozart, yesterdayfast in the north bay, the upper 70's, low 80s. 60s, 70's through most of the bay area. we're still seeing some fog hugging the coastline and even to the north bay. that fog is going to stay with us, too out tonight in the morning for tomorrow. and tomorrow afternoon, similar conditions with the exception of the north become a cooler. and also cooler by the end of this week coming up. >> a live look upside is our monday traffic and at the top, the 80 heading towards the lower deck is starting to back up. it was much lighter earlier, you can see how it is a heavier. the bottom is the south 101 that is also moving slowly. we will be right back. [ woman on tv ] if you won't let me in, you can't really love me. i know about gayle. i don't know what you're talking about. if you just tell me what happened... [ ding ] [ man ] 35th and archer. next stop hamilton. [ brakes hiss ] ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your iphone when you get at&t u-verse tv. at&t. rethink possi

they will play georgia works along with crowd favorites like mozart. the orchestra hopes it will win over the audience with a mix of old and new. >> it is very important for us. many musicians and may be many new friends. >> they are going places, and the young euro classic festival is a major step. >> musicians from other big john are also playing. there is a newly created orchestra of southeastern europe, made up of musicians from germany and the former yugoslav republics. the worked closely in rehearsals to harmonize their talent. the effort was put to the tes at the opening concert. it was billed as the first in a series of performances celebrating togetherness and tolerance. we caught up with two members who embarked on the musical journey. >> this is genta. this is marina. they are on their way to play in one of the most promising ensembles, the festival orchestra of southeastern europe. the to have just met on their way to rehearsals. not long ago, their parents' generation was a war. but th are here to make music together. 22-year-d genta is fr

and we're doing an evening which is going to be-- both with me and my company-- mozart, late-- string35, one of the most celestial pieces of music ever written, followed by a piece by a living european composer, gyorgy kurtag. if you can imagine a full movement 17 seconds long. and then there's-- there might be 11 of them, and the whole thing is only 9 minutes long. very, very exciting, very acerbic, very aphoristic, very exciting. and then shostakovich: a piece from, i think, 1932, entitled prelude and scherzo-- two short movements, an octet. and a company favorite. a company favorite, which is d-man in the waters to mendelssohn's octet in e-flat major. these are, at this time, formal works about the style that we are developing. janet wong, my rehearsal director-- we spend hours talking about the way arms move, the way the hips move. the company is still quite diverse. i'm hoping that watching all those arms and hips and different uses of phrasing and intention-- that we'll still be able to say something about the big questions we've been trying to talk about today, and that it'll h

i am a huge mozart famil in my singing, i was a base and there was an awful lot of blocah his. music is so glorious. i did a big project that was one of the great projects of my life. i'm a jazz fan. it is hard for me to narrow it damown. >> what about ballet? >> as ballet company start to cross borders, different styles do not exist anymore. i love to young dancers that are 20 years old and they are astonishingly good. we are lucky to have them every year at the kennedy center. i love seeing those companies. but also like the miami city ballet. there are great ballet companies around the country that i truly enjoy. in modern dance, i love the gamut. paul's company is close to my heart. i love the less well-known countries -- companies such as odc. >> you say that you will be here until 2014. this year is a $165 million budget and you have 14 members on your board that are members of congress. are they expected to go back to the congress and get more taxpayer money for this? >> no, that is not how we use them. it will use them when we want to do work for their communities. we h

there are many mozart. to be a great composer, many kids start composing at a very early age. three, for, five. mathematicians can start early. but pa caus piccasso claimed you couldn't get a sense until you were nine, 10, 11 years old. he could not draw a horse like that when he was five years old. the fact they are compromised in some ways kids with autism can have remarkable strength. i think that supports a point that is emerging in a number of these programs that howard gardner has made, that there are multiple intelligences. you can be strong in some things and weak in others and conversely you can have serious compromise of function and do exceedingly well. that probably holds for the two of us. >> charlie: this is charles darwin's book, the expression of the emotions in man and animals. darwin was amazing. >> amazing man. he was without a doubt the most important biologist who ever lived. he not only formulated the theory of evolution but he realized that behavior evolved. just like body parts evolve, so does behavior evolve. you can see examples of human behavior in s

like that conduct the meat and potatoes of the repertoire, braupls and tchaikovsky and beethoven and mozartdn. it's great stuff. a few things about conducting that i think maybe people think that conducting is all about power and i would like to hereby say that it's not true. it's not about power. i think the orchestra has the power, not the conductor. if the orchestra does not respect what the conductor does and what the conductor has to say, they will not give out. >> rose: then what is it about? >> conducting? conducting is about the i always find there's a real mystery in conducting. i keep repeating this but i think it bears repeating. you can put three or four different people to give a down beat to an ooshg stra and they'll give different sounds. it has to come between a current between the conductor and orchestra. body movement,ing? the face. and the players, you know, they really, really know. they know when they see how they're affected and whoops is for me as an instrumentalist it's a challenge to make the orchestra sound like i want to hear. because everybody knows... people tal

. ♪ renowned for singing mozart and strauss, she not only surprised herself with her new record but surprised. did they want to get involved in telling you how to interpret the songs? >> they told me, you have to cut that, mom, we're embarrassed. it's not good. ♪ ♪ all my instincts they return ♪ >> reporter: on dark hope, she covers everyone from peter gabriel -- ♪ ♪ in your eyes the light, the heat ♪ >> reporter: to indie icons death cab for cutie. ♪ >> reporter: and with every note, she knows she's putting her reputation on the line. >> i enlarge when we in classical music cross over it's not over time been met with tremendous amount of success. >> reporter: did you have to sort of unlearn a lot of your schooling to do this? >> i had to unlearn a lot. ♪ i had to relearn singing without diction for instance. >> reporter: there's a lot of mumbling in rock 'n' roll. >> it's funny because who heard it said, boy, that's first time i knew the words to the song. >> reporter: oh, i finally know -- >> what those words are. here it is. ♪ all of the things that i do to be understood over an orchestra

it's one of my favorites, but i'm also a huge mozart fan.don giovanni, i think, is one of the great creations of the world. i've -- in my singing when i was trying to sing, i was a cara torre bass and so i sang an awful lot of bach. bach was just an unbelievable genius, and his music is so glorious. but i also love jazz music and i did a big project with dizzy gillespie at alvin ailey that was one of the great projects of my life. so i'm a jazz fan. it's really hard for me to narrow it down. i'm so happy i don't have to in my life. i've got to see so much. >> what about ballet? >> goodness, well, you know, one of the interesting things about ballet is that as ballet dancers have started to cross borders, ballet companies now look more and more alike. there used to be a russian style, a french style, an english style -- that doesn't exist anymore. i love the two young dancers of the bolshoi ballet, osipova and vasiliev, who are now, i think, about 20 years old. they're just astonishingly good and we're lucky to have them here every year at th

the temperature is a day school for the mozart 56 in redwood 60 in oakland 59 and hayward, concord. 64gesture were sitting in the fifties for the most part by the timely than noon will see some of those widespread '60s indicated by the green on your screen. all in making up to seven these separate, livermore are our spots, 7 is low 80s but none in the '90s. 72 n. novato, 78 in fairfield as a maker way over the golden gate bridge 57 in ocean beach 51 and san francisco, 71 san mateo, 76 palo alto, 70 in castro valley, hayward, union in fremont. and in spots keeping it in the '70s. 75 and danville 78 and antioch. 73 morgan held, of your the debt to the game later on tonight trent taking on the cup at 715 school, fog get there. by the time limited to 9:00 it will drop back to 55 make sure you bundle up. keeping cool over the next couple of days. mid-60's around the bay. as we make it into our weekend mid to high eighties. are those '60s. conditions improving on the nimitz and oakland slow traffic in and mr. hayward and a set down direction that is relaxed to the low slot traffic. we have h