of ice music. -- we gather for an evening of ice music.nk that although were made from rice. it is also an interesting way to experience the landscape of norway, freezing cold with a full moon overhead. i am frozen through. it is time to head in. next morning, the festival continues without me as i returned to the bergensbanen for the next part of my journey. travelling on this stretch of the line, you start to appreciate the vast landscapes that this country has to offer. and i cannot imaginea country has to offer. and i cannot imagine a better way of experiencing them than this. morning by greig plays well, my train has arrived at its destination but my musicaljourney across norway is not yet finished a close i am in bergen, a cultural hotspot and a great way to experience the great musical heritage of norway. edvard grieg, norway is pot most well loved composer. here, a museum to him has preserved and restored the grounds where he wants worked. —— once worked. the grounds where he wants worked. -- once worked. you can see now we will en

wasilla kids who want to music is what the church be without music. it was music in the church centuries ago with composers like bach as i knew the church was for the best of the best. so where are they now we want to be the generation to bring new creativity because god is creative. isn't it fun celebrating. here in the city center. this is concert meets prayer and it has the blessing of the church the brother is a protestant but they also want to build bridges between denominations several thousand people come to their base events which they organize four times a year in various locations. it's nice to not just i really believe that they live what they saying it's great. because they get the faith across really well at the moment is not some old church thing sitting on a cold pew because a lot of them is using was a very matter. of style as one important person had to miss the event to do a guest performance for the band who was florence joy is the singer of can you get into the star and she's also married to thomas the band's lyrics often refer to

music reaches its crescendo.arrived at its destination, but my musical journey across norway is not yet finished, because i am in bergen, a cultural hotspot and a great way to experience the rich musical heritage of norway. she plays allegro molto moderato from grieg's concerto in a minor. edvard grieg, possibly norway's most well known and loved classical composer. here in bergen, set among woodland alongside a vast lake, a museum to grieg has preserved and restored the grounds where he once lived and worked. you can see now we will enter the house and this is the main entrance. this year will be a milestone for the man, as it will be 150 years since he wrote his famous piano concerto. he really was a very much appreciated composer in his lifetime. we know that in great britain for example, he was one of the most popular living composers in his time. the second part of the 19th century was going together with all of this national movement in norway and norway was, by then, a country together with sweden with one

perfectly so you have to know the music backwards actually you know we start listening to the music way way in advance and then we really get into it the week of the wall cast and i'll spend from monday to thursday night working with the recordings of the music and sitting in a room with one of my colleagues and copies of the score and kind of building a whole the whole show was actually and to something ever go wrong oh sure. because we use a kind of hybrid system using you know robotics and presets the worst thing that goes wrong usually is somebody will recall preset while that camera is life so the camera all nicely be showing a shot and all this and it'll just get yanked away as it whips across the stage to show something that has nothing to do with what's happening we will keep an eye out for that in the well cost but we're really looking forward to it an amazing work you guys do up here thank you thank you very much are. you well told there was cost concerts here in soundscape park with a concert inside a similar team is to go cost onto the board to building outside these con

(balalaika music) - [smes] make no mistake. they don't just do better, they live dramatically better. and last two or three years they were a disappointment, but still living standards cannot be compared to what most russians had to suffer through in the 1990s. (protest shouts) - [narrator] putin appeals to russia's nationalists and social conservatives, who came to see him as returning russia to its former glory. - [hayden] putin won his first term as president. with oil running 110, 113 dollars a barrel. putin's social contract with the russian people was 'i may be an autocrat, but don't worry, you're gonna be rich.' now putin comes back into office and oil's trucking along about 40 dollars a barrel. so now putin's new social contract is 'i may be autocratic but don't worry, you're gonna be proud.' (epic russian music) - this new russian middle class was not going to be supportive of putin indefinitely. so when putin came back to power, i think he had to look for a new base of support. and so you do start to get a new kind of

sonam and welcome back there is music today we're in with the tel aviv. this city is full of music and before moving on to something classical i wanted to come down here to the beach where every weekend there's traditional israeli folk dancing going on just behind me that's going to look. for. her. hotter and hotter. than. my wife was her house our front right. back. ha. ha. ha. ha ha ha ha. that is really oprah's homes but here are ten of the performing arts and two seats ninety ninety full. i love all the backstage access we get on sarah's music and here is no exception here backstage at the israel opera the preparations are going on for tonight opera faust i shall go there's a lot going on in there. you know. the. whole of. the. her. out. was. was. was. was was my so down and shallow like you for taking a few minutes is the calm before the storm here in the pit indeed you've got to go up there and conduct for four hours but four hours of wonderful friend music that sounds like germany. so what does the audience here in tel aviv think of goo know what d

i guess this was a post 20th century as we come as music, particularly maybe rap music and this other genres of music started to take more shape, particularly popular in cortana started expanding outside of urban america to suburbia. youth on people took notice for starters and were looking at probably the mid-'90s to the latter part of the '90s when people started noticing that this new genre of music or this new form of expression was influencing young people. no different than prior generations, when you have rock 'n roll and things of that nature. so when we talk about any genre of music or any form of expression, people are concerned about violence. is there going to be violence at a rapid show? isn't going to be violence at a venue in my city, in my town? so violence is the first and foremost concern. secondly, there's this lifestyle of behavior contribute to drug abuse. are people going to these functions under age? does it promote drug abuse? does it promote cavalier attitudes towards individuals? and then finally misogynistic behaviors. from rock 'n roll to punk rock to hypox

music can sound like this. or like this what different styles have in common is an ability to touch us and the power to hear. thanks it. sucks that the list is if. done at this cafe in zero people dance their worries away it's refreshing and good exercise becomes. the most effective the most suffer from dementia even if it's not always obvious to outsiders. a little dish philippic british music gets both body and soul moving it happens automatically. seventy five has alzheimer's it was diagnosed two years ago. he comes here regularly with his partner. at leisure things i've noticed that there's more within me than i knew about any of you know i've been learning a new language and it's called movement to be big if the fluid would enable i don't have to dredge my memory all the state just happens on the spur of the moment this is. a chance to mention pretty much shuts down the brain neurons die and are not replaced. thomas pickle is sixty six and his dementia is advanced he can no longer speak or most tasks are b

everything from the vibrant world of pop music on facebook at d w music store. stars and the latest from the music scene. join us in the universe of pop on facebook and send us a message we love hearing from. we continue with an up and coming artist from of area. leave wish now that's unknown as nearly among clouds makes melancholy pop and reminds me a little bit of lana del rey among clouts has performed at festivals and finland australia and the us she's been touring with her new album aerial perspective where we caught up with her. it. might only be an adopted home for lily among clowns but it's like performing for a home crowd normally shy she comes out of her shell. she captivate her audience with the energy and very personal larynx. segun may be did i always say i'm not offering a solution in the songs but if people feel what you've lived through then they know that they're not the only idiots that have bad things happen to them. that's enough to change something but it doesn't take the problems away. it gets. down to twenty nine year olds debut album aeri

music reaches its crescendo.tination, but my musical journey across norway is not yet finished, because i am in bergen, a cultural hotspot and a great way to experience the rich musical heritage of norway. she plays allegro molto moderato from grieg's concerto in a minor. edvard grieg, possibly norway's most well known and loved classical composer. here in bergen, set among woodland alongside a vast lake, a museum to grieg has preserved and restored the grounds where he once lived and worked. you can see now we will enter the house and this is the main entrance. this year will be a milestone for the man, as it will be 150 years since he wrote his famous piano concerto. he really was a very much appreciated composer in his lifetime. we know that in great britain for example, he was one of the most popular living composers in his time. the second part of the 19th century was going together with all of this national movement in norway and norway was, by then, a country together with sweden with one king living in sw

music story stars and the latest from the music scene. join us in the universe of pop on facebook to send us a message we love hearing from led. we are now hamburg bound on our journey through the world of music to the home of german wrap up yes as roots five thousand kilometers away in every trip it tells us what impact his background had on him and his music. solid stuff. like. prague has been a big name in the german rap scene for almost two decades now. accorded his best of album of the bavarian band tried to on the series of guest artists. we met a hip hop legend in hamburg where he lives and works he sees his music as a kind of confession i am therapy at the same time. just keep saul's dateline's used as i know the underwood says i might put things together because every experience that maybe i add something else but it's ninety five percent is authentic as much as authentic as it should not be stupid to write stuff i knew was fake even if i was the only one who knows. my public display. to suit me shut. up after all that is of erit

if the math behind the music is correct then we perceive that music as beautiful. that's also true for a complex music pieces like this japanese song it has special rhythms that work well as an experiment during math lessons whoa whoa whoa whoa cause. when it's all right let's try it all together ready oh oh oh oh oh oh god oh cause i. know me well singing the students and this was classroom i'm supposed to visualize what they hear that means they should interpret and write down on paper the laws and rules of the tones in beats they hear they don't write musical notes they use pictures and symbols experts call with the students are doing mathematics zeeshan what the next year has mathematics zation means translating and everyday situation into a generally abstract language upstroke extracting an actual situation and trying to recognize the laws behind it. it's masticate it's a kind and these are the colors represents a pause and the x.'s represent the notes and. you can assume overlays that you had to grade the top is like a key and that's also a. rick you can use.

the vicespoke with president of amazon music. >> it is a huge part of amazon music.on smart speakers. the first thing people want to do with the speakers of listen to music. it has been a big part of the service. emily: is prime driving subscription and growth? >> it is. we have two tiers of amazon music. with your prime membership, you get prime music. survey -- ais a service called amazon music unlimited, which is a standalone subscription. emily: give us an idea of how many people actually use amazon music. in the world of spotify, apple music, these are big numbers. what kind of growth are you seeing? >> we are seeing exponential growth. we don't disclose numbers publicly, but i can say in a very short time, amazon music has become the third-largest streaming service globally. figures, we have seen this year alone in 2018 more thann alexa, two times what it was last year, which was also two times more than it was the year before. we reached the point where listening is bigger than listening -- where listening on alexa is bigger than listening on a smart phone. ca

and it just looks like classical music is cool and fun yeah i mean custom is it is good for. the conservatory we discovered an unusual can be performed timber a fifty five minute piece played on pieces oh well timber. i've. never told a serious home hundred. forty five an opera was also performed up in the conservatory the audience had to wear headphones to hear the voices in the music mix and without them all you heard with the singers this meant we were free to roam around and follow the action. in this series. is very fond. of. her. oh. now. daisy that was really incredible i mean i had no idea what to expect what was i actually listening to select except some common that we've we've been to a kind of new narrative in the hope peace set to new electronic schools yes i recognize the peace corps isn't quite sure i didn't recognize the meet the orchestration of what was going on while the singers were singing live to sing and sing live in that we've created a pre recorded ok search track that is made up of some more christian some meaty sound some prerecorded speaking country

yes, fantastic music. the moments you got up out of your seat. you say this is what musicals are all about. >> i will go back in time to evita. you did win an oscar for the song in evita. but i am probably not going to play the clip. i will play the film version of evita. let's have a little clip. ♪ don't cry for me argentina the truth is i never left you all through my wild days my mad existence i kept my promise don't keep your distance ♪ >> i mean that really was remark but. madonna did the, did the film. patty lupone on broadway. >> patty lupone on broadway. also did the performance at grammys which was, extraordinary. i mean, breathtaking. >> what is your text big project? what its the next big musical you would look to do? >> i know what i would like to do. i wish i could till you. i can't. >> in, on the drawing board? >> it is on the drawing board. it involves talking to one or two people who i need to as it were get their permission. the musical, takes, three years, minimum. to, to get on stage. i

music can sound like this. or like this what different styles have in common is an ability to touch us and the power to heal. the fact that this visit. at this cafe in zero people dance their warnings away it's refreshing and good exercise. because it is the most. suffers from dementia even if it's not always obvious to outsiders. a little dish to look at it if it shows music gets both body and soul moving it happens automatically. believe him when it is seventy five and has alzheimer's it was diagnosed two years ago. he comes here regularly with his partner. at the egyptians i've noticed that there is more within me than i knew about. real life and learning a new language and it's called movement to be a good get through it with me maybe i don't have to dredge my memory if it just happens on the spur of the moment this is. a chance to mention pretty much shuts down the brain neurons die and are not replaced. thomas because they're sixty six and his dementia is advanced he can no longer speak most tasks are bey

music, these are big numbers?owth are you seeing? steve: we are seeing exponential growth, we don't disclose numbers publicly but we can say in a short period of time amazon music has become the third-largest globally and we alone,en, just this year listening on alexa in the last two months is more than a year before, which is also more than 2x than the year before. alexa and amazon music mixes different than any other music service which is all about mobile. emily: can you give us an idea of how much a priority music is to amazon? we know amazon is investing heavily in original content, and how does it compare to the investment into music? the investment into music has gotten substantial over the last couple of years because music is at the center of two important strategic priorities at amazon. one is amazon prime and the other is alexa, so we are the locust of those two things that makes music a huge priority. with theple is out home pot and they have made it clear that the primary case is listening to music. h

end to beat him he turns to look at me like are you kidding me because for music's gone the music is thick and i just look at him and call over yeah the music is gone it was everything is gone this is ours i thank you i was i was probably i. thank you. thank. the two. thank. you little bit so if you're going to sell out i didn't i if you don't follow the. of the because i thank you i feel. that i have a unique unique was on stage and it was like we've rehearsed it. you keep you on the. path you se i i i. i i dreamt graham did beat box to keep the rhythm going i'm led to play trumpet that meant we were in the game and did a performance for ten minutes show them the same you know and i think that was. the only way. i could see how instance they got the system back up for the last song we had exactly six minutes left and we played one song and then it was over. it was amazing. amazing is also the apt way to describe the huge popularity of e.d.m. electronic dance music with deejays from germany very much at the forefront. you'll be. going to the boat. building blocks of the imagination i

as revolutionary music, as music of the generation, right?hat happened simultaneously, and this is really kind of a similarity. where, a lot of off-off-broadway, they are listening to rock 'n roll. they are kind of debating whether or not they burn their draft card or join the draft or whether they go to canada. you know, there is a lot of pressures that are going on among younger people that are just not hitting broadway because broadway is appealing to middle class, fairly middle of the road people at the time. right? so broadway ends up being the entity that has to adjust. like the film industry has to adjust, like the music industry has to adjust. but it's usually the most commercial entity that's the one that sort of is caught unaware. there is other stuff going don downtown. we don't care about that we're making really big expensive theater. well, yeah, okay, that's not helping you right now. >> there is the correlation between age and the complacency of broadway, are they directly correlating? >> i might say yes, i mean, my reaction wo

shallow and welcome back there is music today where in windy tel aviv. this city is full of music and before moving on to something classical i wanted to come down here to the beach where every weekend there's traditional israeli folk dancing going on just behind me that's going to look. for. her mother. that i met your mother. might want to force her out of our program. my. next come back. at my. last moment. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha love em. the israeli opera spode has been here at the time of the performing arts and since nine hundred ninety four. i love all the backstage access we get on sarah's music and here is no exception here backstage at the israel opera the preparations are going on for tonight opera faust i shall going over there's a lot going on in there. you know. for. her. how. i. was her i was i. i might start down shallow shallow i.q. for taking a few minutes it's the calm before the storm here in the pit indeed you've got to go up there and conduct for four hours but four hours of wonderful friends music that sounds like germany. and

this is the music video of the song conclude the case. afropop to new song in luganda one of uganda's national languages. rational about this isn't the singer is not a native speaker of the ganga sabrina her ass known as dino is a twenty four year old german woman who's written a book for self as a pop star in the east african country of uganda what does that actually money. i don't really know so i don't have a definition. but my songs are on the radio and t.v. people recognize me in the streets and i've already met all the successful people and have sung on big shows. of course the trolls. all those you know spends most of her time in uganda these days we meet her in berlin where she's just graduated in social work she's also written a book about her unusual career to leave our service meineke was very important to me to tell my story myself and it really is very autobiographical fights i told it's about what's happened since twenty twelve but i also wanted to give a more modern and hopefully more realistic view of an african country i

it's not like i just turned up and started making music like them and. they understand that i'm doing it seriously that i live here and want to live here in turkey that i understand what i'm doing and that i've got some background knowledge that's why i don't think i've ever experienced any hostility i've been received very positively positively. cannot live off the proceeds of her music she's hoping to expand her fan base in africa and her talent for learning languages helps a lot. but also after. there few more languages coming in twenty eighteen i'm going to release a song and swahili i was recently nominated for two wards in uganda and i'm really excited about that the ceremony is in march and i hope there will be lots of concert. it's that i've also been invited to a few festivals in germany which is nice and there's a lot happening and i'm looking forward to the state of in five if you aren't one. that we can look forward to doing his new video which is currently in the making. what's a story next we're on to something weird and wonderful previousl

plus, can israelis and egyptians make beautiful music together? a smash new musical brings harmony to the middle east and i talk to the rising broadway star composer david yazbeck. >>> welcome to the program, i'm cristian amanpour in new york. the iran nuclear deal faces a perilous future. president trump could put the united states out mid-may when another deadline looms, inside iran, this uncertainty is playing into a bitter struggle between the moderate government of hassan rouhani against the hard line revolutionary guards. caught in the middle are the emami family. iranian authorities clay that kavous seyed emami committed suicide a confessing to spying but emami's family disputes this and is calling for a transparent investigation. after his death, his widows were barred from leaving at the last moment with her sons. this week, the two brothers did come here and join me in the studio to talk about fighting to bring theirherhome, struggling to cope with the death of their father and struggling to get the truth about what really happened to hi

this music is not so well known to. me and says because this music was mostly your. war it was written really for you dish that it was only played and performed to jews in eastern europe or in germany however that of course is the missing gap between viennese. and broadway musical the missing link between these two traditions so it's very important i think too little in theory. you. know you're. from melbourne people of many dreams of your career came true is there any dream. i don't view my career as a ladder climbing up to something as long as i can direct that's actually what gives me the most joy film is the challenge that i'd like to do i've got to go back into rehearsal with two actors and do something very very small that's a dream you know i'm fifty years old and i'm lucky to be doing what i love i'm lucky to be paid to do what i love and i'm lucky to be able to work with people who i love working with so you know any problems that i have a first block should be. talking about working working fifteen hours and doing everything here i'm just going to. recharge

music is song this is the original cuban music yes i mean all this else who know but what i meant the home of. someone who had it last i'll software when i study the. cell of your medical that almost ago i lovely . you'll say i think i was bought out a lot out of the lot of it is it what archer bledel so well one call it all up. a little less if there are some saved by the poor the mother. was a little more. credible mohammed morsi is it possible to explain in words to a classical musician like me what are the what are the characteristic the basics of song is that even possible so it's a little. can also. as shown muscle noodles nothing in poor. when i got a political place yelling want to. move and want to elemental leader and soul noise when i was up as it was here with l. concierto a not so we had to have actually moved away to the north. and some city see tumulty and i just see tumulty as a lesson very silty and s l l s will. say you know the n.s.a. like hell the big morning paper no moon come up with the cards from seattle your move to see your to your mood to see who will be on

music. as you. know as dina is a superstar in uganda she has no qualms playing the front of fifty thousand people at festivals here's the unusual story of an exceptional artist. this is the music video of the song can click. the afro pop tune is sung in luganda one of uganda's national languages. special about this is that the singer is not a native speaker of the ganga sabrina hass known as dino is a twenty four year old german woman she's written a name for herself as a pop star in the east african country of uganda what does that actually know me. i don't really know i don't have a definition. of love but my songs are on the radio on t.v. people recognize me in the streets and i've already met all the successful people and have sung on big shows. of course and trolls. call though do you know spends most of retirement uganda these days we meet her in berlin where she's just graduated in social work she's also written a book about her unusual career teaching the naval service to humanity that was i

i mean absolutely i mean i think music and art. you know they're interchanged because making art and music is a political act i mean it is it is doing something. that is against the grain of this against kind of what's going on so. you know especially now with with what's going on in the world i mean i think young artists and artists in general have more to say than than ever before they're trying to get their message out there and you know. it matters and we're listening to me. we have to. just to end the show when combined with her own life production of proficiency in production technology she is bridging the gap between the walls and traditions in a way that touches young people deep play again kudos to you but you thought another six shows to do so out of those six shows do you do you work out ok i'm going to do this and this one and this in this one touches people do you come with an agenda now there's no a gender i guess no one organized part is our songs we rehearse her songs that thousand times so that. whenever i get to t

from iraq to musicals and contemporary music theatre career. is that the recipe for running a successful house the recipe for around the commercial people done time here to see the honest. i don't know tank or does that it's not the. authentic history and tradition of the house so the model that we have here is the model but i think it makes the commercial for a functional twenty first line all the traditions to juggle all of this and make it an organism that works for billions. of cause a reputation as a recreate or of the traditional especially river berlin operetta of the twenty's and thirty's very much connected with the history of this place what happened in the twenty's and thirty's in berlin was that. the european operator tradition collided weave jazz and it's an intoxicating combination to have a dad that sort of lyrical sentimental old world put appears to vienna but then sort of infused with this incredible. six scene. and this combination was an invention of early do you feel an obligation to revive the jewish tradition and bring it