two operas of mozart which we play and play. mozart operas, years ago there were only three. a lot of verdi that wasn't there before. a lot of -- there was no handle at all. 1984 was the first handel opera in the met. and there's britain and stravinsky and there have been new works of -- by a lot of composers which i hope in some cases will stick around and be revived. >> rose: the question of legacy-- one who knows little about music but understands a few things-- it seems to me the legacy the people say first do no harm. come to a place and do no harm. >> right. >> rose: and second is you leave it better than you found it. >> yes, absolutely. >> and it's the idea as i talk to corporate people that have done something, is it's not an individual product. it is a culture, it is a company it is a place where they were in a sense of being attuned to the idea. >> it's just what you're saying. that it these do with all of the things we did that raises our night-to-night standard and the variety of our repertoire and the opportunities

you know, it's like mozart created music that sort of came into his head, and other composers revise a little more. one maybe is almost too easy if it just comes in your head and you don't have to revise.m i like to have a first draft, yo and then i revise it.ft >> host: and if someone were to pick up one of your books and said -- which one of your bookso should i read, what would youour say? >> guest: that depends completely on who you are because i have mammoth, long novels. marilyn monroe must be 800 pager long, and the accursed is about 800 pages long or 600. but zombie is a novella, it's only about 140 pages. so if you like short work, then i have a novel called "rape: ae love story," a novella, and that's very short. >> host: joyce carol oates. her most recent book, "the accursed." this is booktv on c-span2. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of th

in this beautiful composition by mozart, we have an idea, and then he takes that idea and moves it downariation, and then the answer is a contrast--completely new. [light piano tune] and now we're in the middle of it. we haven't quite come home yet, so he repeats it. variation, and then a new contrast which brings us to a close. when we talk about melody, we're just talking about the beginning of a composition. melodies can generate an entire work. in this particular piece, that's only half of the theme. the theme then is developed a little further, and then he writes a set of six variations on this theme. [dramatic piano finish] (narrator) many non-western musics employ complex melodic arrangements that form the basis for composition and improvisation. the word mode is sometimes used to refer to these structures. one example of this is the arabic maqam system. the maqam system is based on scale-like groupings of notes that each have certain distinctive characteristics. since there are dozens of maqams, the melodic possibilities are endless. melody in arabic music develops along a singl

you're in that orchestra pit, you are conducting genius, mozart. >> yes. say it doesn't get happier than that. i mean, that's --

so the song colors along this song for me to be honest for me if i may say that sia mozart and sham wonderful team of writers wrote me that offered me that gift. i didn't know where discipline was going why did you wait so long to do another oh well i didn't stop i did i did the five years in vegas with a new day i want to world tour that lasted morning year i had two kids i i took a little break a short one and i prepared a new show in foot i've been on stage for two years with a new show what did it go i didn't wait long i did it i you know i didn't center on the couch and so love me back to i love me back to live a single off the you know the single of the album and it's i didn't know where was going what you had to do thirty years of a career and i'm going to sing what i've sung before don't get me wrong which i will always be very appreciative and will recognize that chance all my life i still sing them on stage that people will go postal but what am i going to do it's been done i can do it again and i'm going to reinvent myself and i'm going to change my this is the new me now it's hard

he is pelting out mozart at the hippodrome theater. major at the university of texas, how about that? our coverage of the government shut down continues as the nation waits for signs of progress on capitol hill. both sides are digging in for the long haul. some lawmakers are warning the shutdown could last for weeks but first. >> it is a big day for one lucky -- lottery player who has his hands on the golden ticket. >> no word on who is coming into some money. sold at ag ticket was dash-in. in and got ashed ticket and they will be dashing into the lottery and they will be rich. real rich. at the store in severin yesterday was someone's lucky day. this everything what is person going to take him? >> $86 million assuming they take the lumps on. lump sum. >you think it is a regular customer? customers.repeat >> when do you think it was bought? >> yesterday. from here. it >> this woman says her husband always buys tickets here but he did not last night. >> one day he was here he spent $100 in lottery tickets. when he came home i was so ang

we come in and do garage band music, and mozart shows up. and i would leave the set. that is not right. >> seriously. what about on the men's side -- >> well, there has been all of this -- you know, from nicholson and de niro, and the whole -- you get into daniel day. look, there are great actors, they all make you want to go off and become an accountant -- >> i would ask you who is the worst one, we'll leave that one. what i love about having you on the show. this is your fourth appearance, we get such divisive reaction, so many people love you, we get so many people like this one, kathy said having sean penn on the show does make sense, in that neither one of them knows what they're talking about. >> maybe she has something on us. >> what do you feel about your polarizing reputation? you didn't have to be an activist, but you did. i know many of the actors who won't talk about politics, they don't want to be polarizing. >> you know, i was in port au prince, i had to leave haiti now, i have to travel to the third world country that i come from. you have been you know

it's like mo -- luen mozart created music and other s composers revise a little more.a one is maybe too easy if it comes in your head and you don't have to revise. maybe a i like that have a first draftdu and revise it. that's my happiest situation.rat >> if someone were to pick upats one of your books and said whici one of ytour books should i o read?us say >> guest: that depends on whoy t you are.yo i have huge long novels about marilyn monroe is 800 pages long. but "zombie" is only about 140 y pages. if you like short word i have ae novel called "rape: a love store ." that's very short.nd not very >> host: joice carol. s here is theu most recent bookoa. "the cursed ." it's booktv on c-span2. >>> a look at the u.s. capitol today. the senate about to gavel in for a rare saturday session on day five of the government shut down. we'll return to booktv programs as soon as the senate is gaveled out for the day. right now go live to the floor of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the senate chaplain, retired admiral dr. barry black, wi

you're destroying an einstein or a mozart or something. what do you say to the kid? ch, ch. condensation. it's condensing up there. remember what we talked about-- when we talked about the warm air rises, what if that warm air get a lot of water vapor? when that rises, what's it do? begin with a x. - expand. - expand. when it expands, what's it do? begin with a c. - cool. - cool. to say it cools is to say it slows down. to say it slows, to say the water molecules can what? begin with a c. - condense. - condense. and when it condenses, what do you get? begin with a c. - cloud. - a cloud. can you see that? yeah. and usually the clouds around here, right over the mountains isn't that true? and why is that true? let's look at that. this is hawaii, huh? in fact, you can always tell when you're flying towards hawaii if you wanna get to-- just look at the window and you see all the clouds. it's hawaii. always clouds up here, most always. out here? sometimes, but most always up here. why? because the air-- --it's like hitting the spoiler of your car, right? it's get bounded up, righ

but if you think logically, if the mother relaxes when she listens to mozart and her pulse rate slows down and her entire circulatory system and body is less stressed, this can only be healthy for the baby. doctor: the baby's heartbeat sounds great. it sounds calm right now. there's data now to show that women who have stress have a greater risk of having a baby that has an anomaly of either the heart or the central nervous system, like spina bifida, heart abnormalities that are more likely to occur in a woman who has stress. and then also there's been a study showing that women who have stress are more likely to have a miscarriage. so this really focuses us toward the early part of pregnancy. researchers are also studying how acute stressors like domestic violence and natural disasters affect pregnancy. calvin john hobel: recently our team showed a relationship between the northridge earthquake that occurred here in the l.a. basin and those women who experienced the earthquake during the early part of pregnancy. it had a significant effect on their gestational length meaning that the

reach each of the recipients and i said tell me about your andrew solomon and she said he is the mozartg. [laughter] i want that on my epitaph. [laughter] but unfortunately that will never happen. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, for relating to stores that make us better people of what family and community key and be the anisfield-wolf book award for nonfiction is awarded to a year drew sullivan for the book "far from the tree." [applause] ♪ >> i would like to state my editor and reagent in my family and that this award is currently listed and this is such an unbelievably thrilling award it to win for the history to of one it and others that are here tonight with me in this distinguished panel of judges. it is a humbling honor. even with purely non religious terms homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty a little prophetic of reality a pity if all as it deserves no glamorization of rationalization and above although pretense it is anything but a pernicious sickness. that is ty magazine 1966 when i was three years old. and in the last two years both the president of unite

like modern day mozart. >> there was minimal twerking but miley cyrus was all over the government shutdownn her performance on "saturday night live." >> the buzzing is everywhere! >> we get more from cnn's victor blackwell. >> live from new york, it's "saturday night live"! >> reporter: love her or hate her. >> miley cyrus! >> reporter: miley cyrus took the stage once again. this time to take aim at herself. >> in case anyone is concerned, you should know there will be no twerking. i used to think it was cool but now that white people are doing it, it seems kind of lame. >> reporter: cyrus moved her weekend stop video playing a sexy singing michele bachmann and poking fun at the government shutdown. ♪ >> reporter: this is the latest public appearance from cyrus as the 20-year-old star continues to grab headlines wherever she goes. few can forget miley's controversial performance recently at the vma. >> every vma performance, anyone that performs. that is what you're looking for, to make history. >> reporter: recently her war of words with sinead o'connor who sent cyrus an open letter not l

reporter: ad prodigies go, a kid who can think about hanging 10 at age 3 might not be a match for mozart>> really big. >> reporter: the natural, the toddler that plays soccer and rides his bike, no trailing wheels of course but also can do this. for today, mike taibbi, nbc ex los angeles. >>> no training wheels at three. >> we might be hearing more from him. >> i think there is a very good chance. that's going to do it for us on this saturday morning. tomorrow, you will meet three generations of a ballooning family. >> then, the science behind infomercials. why do we always fight on them. i'll see you tonight on nightly news. have a great saturday. bye-bye. >>> good morning. coming up, a salmonella scare. plus the latest in the bart negotiation. also, limb seen upgrade. what a new regulation requires them to have in the wake of this deadly limo fire. [ phone ringing ] [ daughter ] hi mom. hey honey, the trip's great, very relaxing. are you sure you can't make it? but you come every year! you could be playing bingo right now! woooo! and there's movie night -- you love movies! [ laughs ] s

condado de maricopa en arizona, los cuales tuvieron la oportunidad de escuchar obras del maestro mozartton quiere que la gente este mas expuesta a la mu Úsica clÁsica. que tengan un lindo dia! (llamado telefÓnico). >> ¿bueno? >> ¿pamela, eres tÚ? >> ¿quiÉn habla? >> habla gina. >> gina. >> ¿estÁ jorge? >> sÍ, permiteme un segundo. >> gracias. >> te habla gina. >> ¿bueno? >> jorge, mi amor, jorge. >> gina, ¿dÓnde estÁs? >> en la delegaciÓn, jorge. estoy en la delegaciÓn, imagÍnate. >> ¿ahora quÉ pasÓ? >> nada, nada, yo no hice nada, te lo juro. >> gina, la gente no va de paseo a la delegaciÓn. ¿quÉ estÁs haciendo ahÍ? >> pues es que fuimos a bailar y salÍ un poquito tarde de ahi y, pues y unos seÑores dicen que choquÉ, ¿tÚ crees? >> ¿unos seÑores dicen que chocaste? >> sÍ! y pues no es cierto. >> voy para allÁ. >> ay, no te tardes por favor, por favor no te tardes. >> nada mÁs me doy un baÑo y voy para allÁ. >> ¿te puedo pedir un favor muy grande? >> ¿quÉ? >> hÁblale a luis. >> ¿a luis? >> que tenÍa llamado, jorge. >> gina, ¿por quÉ no le hablas tÚ mejor? >> ay, porque me va a regaÑar, ¿

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. >>> nothing like a little mozart to soothe the soul and relax the mind.om arizona state university and retired pianist from london decided to bring classical music to the masses. the performance took place inside maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio's infamous tent city jail. that will do it for me. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> so it's a three-day weekend for some people and an unwanted and as of now unpaid 14-day weekend for many furloughed federal workers. happy columbus day. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the national lead. the white house meeting with top members of congress has been postponed. are they making progress in negotiations or are they stocking up on water and foodstuffs and heading to their bunkers? >>> the money lead. just three days until uncle sam bangs his head on the debt ceiling. are lewders in washington gambling with your life savings and retirement? president obama's former economic boy wonder is here to weigh in.