string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san fran

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as is the orchestra's youngest member and hopes to make his people proud.there is peace in afghanistan because of the concert." >> i think it is important to show in spite of reports about suicide bombing and killing, there has been many positive changes in afghanistan. >> the possibility of the tell about having a future role in afghanistan, music is here to stay. jennifer glass, al jazeera, kabul. >> good. >> at least crutcher people have been killed by a severe wave on the east coast of australia -- at least quite sure people have been killed. we have a report from sydney. >> the only to evacuate the people was by air. more than 1000 people were at lifted -- were airlifted. >> we're asking people the main priority is life. listen to emergency service workers and their directions. >> 2000 properties went at least under water. the extreme weather led to more fun than danger. the wind whipped the sea into foam create a large bubble bath. brisbane escaped the worst. some businesses went under. most household look up early dry. the river reached an all-time h

marsalis and the uptown jazz orchestra, thank you guys. take it away!music ] >>> i'm wusa9 meteorologist topper shutt. a severe tornado alert until 2 a.m. denoted there in red. this yellow is severe thunderstorm warnings through culpeper back up to manassas and west of fredericksburg. there's flood warnings also in effect. so do not go and try to cross the street by car or by foot. we'll see pretty heavy rainfall totals. this line hasn't moved much to the south and the east and we have some pretty heavy rains now, rainfall rates over 1 inch an hour right around leesburg down toward warrenton everything pushing slowly off to the east. we'll be back with ♪[ music ] >>> big chief. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: hi, there. we are here at snug harbor on freshman street in new orleans, louisiana, and it's about music and about food all right here a one place and the music we're listening to provided by delcio marsalis and his uptown jazz orchestra. you can't sit down when you listen to music like this. and my colleague, jc hayward, has been dancing all night long. >

some of the world's greatest orchestra flew in this year to perform. one visiting musician decided to try out some innovative equipment. bows are usually handmade from the wood of an indean juried brazilian tree but a team of japanese design think they have found a new way to pass mass produce bows without threatening the trees or losing sound quality. nhk world's rena knack cano explains. >> reporter: the concert master for the vienna philharmonic orchestra has played with them more four decades and described as living legend. he brought an elite group of the orchestra's musicians to japan for a new year's concert. everything about him is traditional. his music, his violin, his style. except for his bow. >> i did not expect is this sound. music is another thing with tradition, think about tradition but not here. but not here. such good material, why should you not play it? there is no reason not to play. >> reporter: the bow is like an extension of the string player's arm. some would argue it is equally as important as the violin itself. a group of en

(orchestra playing "jupiter" theme from the planets) now, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop! will you play it. don't scratch it. it all sounded splendid to me, malcolm. well, with respect, arnold you're there and i'm here. finniston: right. the anacrusis, please, eight bars after andante maestoso and this is "jupiter the bringer of jollity," so jolly yourselves up, please for god's sake, all of you. (orchestra resumes playing) apologies, arnold. apology accepted. gwen? gwen? are you okay, kate? no. gwen (whispering): what is it? well, look. it's a bluff, isn't it? well, how do i know? do something. well, i can't... hi. hi, gwen. (conversing quietly) (door closes) raeburn: i'm back! darling? darling? (gunshot) (second gunshot) (gasping) it's all right. it's all right it's all right. ambulance! call an ambulance! according to my watch, life was extinct at 3:48. but you didn't see anyone? no, only the master's wife. whoever did it must have run back through and left the other way as i went in. there was a door open. the room's unoccupied. we think they must have hid there and wa

not to to do as the in the classical composer they have orchestra and they have to do all with orchestra so i decided to have some instruments guitars bus orchestra keyboards and we do all with this it's i decided like this because i didn't want to change the moods i think the song and the way to sing it changed the way the person you're your father was a tele in origin your mother was a french origin you spent the first three years of your life in vietnam so people call you was born there here people call you multicultural do you agree is it possible for a man to be multi cultural or you identify yourself to be what you're most using in french so you know now mostly singing in italian italian and then french and then spanish and then something so you're almost a cultural how do you say you identify yourself this is interesting yes i think the world is becoming multicultural but essentially i always want to do in the composition and the way to sing old with want to respect who i am. i'm half italian half french so i'm from europe south of europe eventually but i i love that i want to spe

"yes indeed," jo stafford and the tommy dorsey orchestra.who? nick clooney: with the ray noble orchestra. peter marshall: you got it. nick clooney: "indian summer." peter marshall: i love it, my favorite song. ginny simms and the kay kyser band. nick clooney: "cow cow boogie." peter marshall: ella mae morse with freddie slack. "tampico," nick clooney: [singing] from the gulf of mexico. peter marshall: june christy with stan kenton and dozens more of the greatest big band songs ever recorded. [music playing]. narrator: nothing compares to the great big band sound. pledge at the $150 level and you'll receive the amazing cd set, featuring dozens of hits from the big band vocalists on five cds. [music playing]. ♪ ♪ this enduring pbs collection includes the greatest vocalists singers, and songs. plus a special disc of hard to find instrumentals of the big band era. [music playing]. share the experience of the great big band sound. pledge at the $150 level and you'll receive the amazing five cd set featuring over 60 hits from the big band vocalist

some of the world's greatest orchestras flew in to perform. a team of japanese designers think they found a new way to mass >> reporter: he's the concert masters. he'splayed with them for more than four decades and is described as a living legend. he brought an elite group of the orchestra's musicians to japan for a new year's concert. everything about him is traditional. his music, his violin, his style except for his bow. >> i didn't expect the sound. nothing different from the wooden bow. music is another thing. there's no reason not to play. trrp bow is like trrp. >> reporter: the bow is like an extension of the string player's arm. a group of engineers have spent years creating an unorthodoxed bow. he's using a carbon fiber bow made by yamaha. the company began producing them ten years ago. traditional players were skeptical about the modern bows but the designers saw potential. they're challenged to create an affordable, high quality bow that looks, feels and sounds like a wooden one. designers onlyize every of the best bow. they experim

[dissonant orchestra music] (slobin) if we use the word environment to relate to music, we're talkingut two things: a physical environment and a social environment. in the case of highlander people in bosnia singing together, the two are pretty much inseparable. (narrator) in a mountainous region of bosnia herzegovina close to sarajevo, a sheep herding community has developed a unique singing style known as ganga. this genre, which is primarily sung outdoors in groups, closely reflects the conditions and life style of the highlander commity. in bosnian highlander culture, specifically in mt. bjelasnica, people will spend a lot of time outdoors since it's the herding culture. they will spend a lot of time up in the hills all alone looking down into the valley. and if somebody's passing through the valley, they certainly want to be heard. [singing ganga] it is very important to conquer that space with your voice. in terms of finding a genre that will carry the furthest, it's definitely a genre called ganga. and this particular type of singing is characterized by very close harmonies, so

in chicago, i was playing in the orchestra symphony orchestra and i played the xylophone. >> you justked it up and turned it into a jazz instrument. and a marching band instrument and you turned it into a jazz instrument. >> it wasn't at that time, it was very prominent for drummers to play. if you would play drums you had to be a percussionist and play the xylophones. >> it has been such a pleasure to meet you sir. believe it or not. do you do your tap dance every day. >> no, when i'm in new york i take lessons. >>> he was called the king of swing. and many credit benny goodson for popularizing his type of jazz in the 1940s. goodman's jazz was the first to play carnegie hall that came after a tour that began in mcfadden's in oakland and continued with a performance at the palomar ballroom in los angeles with a new sound that swept the country. goodman heard lionel sing and asked him to join his jazz band. jerry brown presented goodman with the first california jazz award. >> ♪ >>> still to come on a second look. we talked with east bay native dave ruback in the early 1990s. a bit lat

what is difficult is that if you are using samples, you can dial- up won a symphony orchestra and ifis not quite enough, you can dhanapala another -- you can dial up another or a third. in the real world, you're only half alive. -- you only have live. ♪ i think -- >> i think if you are going to ride because truly -- if you're going to write orchestrioally, you have to show the difference between some of the net comes from a box and some that comes from the heart. -- between something that comes from a box and sevine that comes from the heart. ♪ >> starring stockard a quick reminder of our top story. a military raid of and the algerian gas complex is said to be ongoing. does this of hostages are still held by islamic militants. out your it is unlikely to seek foreign military assistance -- algeria is unlikely to seek foreign military assistance. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relation

(orchestra continues playing) yeah, see what i mean?t would have been the next best thing to invisible. stand the rifle up in there, maybe chuck a cloth over it. it wouldn't get a second glance. lewis: neither would she. mrs. temple? just a sec if it's all the same. gun club. hathaway: luckily, with no guns. ah. ma'am? forensics had done, so i authorized their return. i'll get backup. oh, no, no. no, mrs. temple, not that. i've had enough. jez can explain. he can't tell us everything. i can try and work it out, but i don't want to get it wrong. that wouldn't be fair to mrs. crompton. thanks. no, okay, okay. did you find a spare key to the gun store? yeah. you and the master. years. since right back when ted temple was the head porter? mm, yeah. i never knew old ted knew. he must have seen andy and me together. andy thought i was lovely. and exciting. you knew about his tumor? babs: mm. when he touched me it was getting harder to feel me, that's how he put it. and then these odd ideas he kept having, he knew they were daft. tuesday after

teacher and as a session side man, having played with everybody from anthony brown's asian american orchestra to wane wallace's newest cd. who haven't you played with lately? yeah, he's played with everybody. you can find mas on a lot of different cd's from the local jazz community. this song we're going to do is an air called the brown-haired girl. when i was recording, when i was fortunate to be able to record bridge across the blue, i was telling them i got this air, i got it off the chieftan's album, i'm going to do it on the electric base. he looked at me and said, you're nuts. people are going to go crazy but if you can do it, i'll help you. he gave me this book of airs and went, figure it out, figure it out. it never quite jelled on the base but when hillary called today, i started to think more about the cedar flute. i said, i wonder if this particular air can fit? well, here we go. (instrumental music). >> thank you very much. i guess what i want to say about an arrangement like that is that it's not meant to use the cedar flute as a bit of exotica, but what the panelists have been s

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bring it (orchestra plays softer) better.that's what happens to background noise, when you're making a call on this. this microphone here, picks up the sounds around you and helps turn them down. (orchestra plays louder) so when the world gets noisy -- calls sound better. >>> you're an independent and you sort of said, look, i want this guys to court me as a voter. in that courting process, what should they be doing? how are they going to hook you in? what are you looking for? >> they need to personally come to my house, piers. they need to come over and watch football with me and spend quality face time. i'm no different than an iowa farmer. i deserve the exact same respect as an iowa corn farmer. politics is retail. come to my house. tanned rob lowe came, rob lowe talked about the race and his passion for politics. good to have you back. >> none of the candidates took me up on my offer. not one of them came to my house. >> nobody called, nobody rang? >> i was sad. >> what do you make of the race in the end? >> i was -- i wa

bring (orchestra plays softer) better., when you're making a call on this. this microphone here, picks up the sounds around you and helps turn them down. (orchestra plays louder) so when the world gets noisy -- calls sound better. >>> back with a final thought or two from charlie sheen. during the break there i was asking you who you thought was the best living actor and you said sean penn. >> sean penn. hands down. period, the end. >> why is he so good? >> because he did "fast times" and "dead man walking." he did "mystic river" and "milk." he does things you that always feel like you're spying on him, that you're invading his private space. he's that good. >> and i love his passion and intenacity. >> it's amazing. >> he went and lived basically in a tent in haiti for eight, nine months. it takes real commitment. >> he's 100%. >> who's the best actress? >> wow. wow. you'd have to -- you'd have to go with streep, i think. you know? >> just the sheer just amount of amazing movies -- >> just oscar count. yeah. >> she's prett

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today's first contestant is an orchestra conductor who has performed in front of 70,000 people.houston, texas, please welcome brett mitchell. nice to see you, brett. >> hi, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> 70,000 people. where was that, and what was that like? i mean, what goes through your head when you look out and see that number of people? >> it was pretty crazy. it was actually at the halftime show of a houston texans football game. >> really? >> i was the assistant conductor for four years of the houston symphony, so we played there. it was fantastic. you know, you get to feed off of the energy of the crowd, and they give the energy back to you, and i'm looking forward to the same thing today. >> [laughs] [cheers and applause] well, that's right. you are absolutely comfortable with the crowd. that's for sure. >> absolutely. >> and your girlfriend, angela, is in the audience. hi to you, angela.

. >> i did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. it was a live television show and a very very important show for me. one of my proudest moments. due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check, i did not feel comfortable taking a risk. >> a multiple choice of explanations and she insisted she had at least some along to the backing track. then, the burning question, would she be singing live at the super bowl? >> i will absolutely be singing live. i am well rehearsed and i will absolutely be singing live. this is what i was born to do. >> determination and redemption. the watching journalists loved it. will america agree? >> well, i was there on inauguration day and i thought it sounded pretty good even if it was lips sink. good luck to her, of course. that brings the show to close. you can carry on watching bbc world news and get updates on our 24 hour news network. check your local listings and you will find our number. you can find us on twitter. from all of us here, thank you for watching. do tune in tomorrow.

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. >> he created music programs for the chamber orchestra in lithuania for children.ed to do an orchestra piece that is based on nora's playing the riffs that she plays. >> and thus the catcerto is born. >> i think this is the first time that a concerto has been written for an animal. i think it only exists because of the internet. >> when posted on the internet, the catcerto receives more than 1 million hits, and in october 2009, norah wins an aspca award for cat of the year. >> what an honor. >> in this dog eat dog world, it's nice to a

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