(piano) if you play - (piano) just the notes, it's kind of - but if - (piano). and the second time - (piano) the opposite. so - >> you're really seeing that in your mind. >> you need to, you know? you know, it's an art. you know, it's about, you know the distance and in and out, you know, big picture, precision. so you always need to have this contrast. and sometimes, then i play so, so - (piano) and then everybody thought that i fell asleep. but no. (piano) you know what i mean? so you need to tell a story, you know? maybe not so extreme, (laugh) you know, but you still need to have a peaceful thing. but you still need to have something. i hate music just played like, let's say - (piano) you know you can be peaceful. but you can still, you know - (piano) and it's the small details - makes a huge difference. and then it becomes art piece or can be - a kind of a machine you know? so it's - that's - one little line there. but when you cross, it makes a huge difference. >> do you compose? >> that's on my future agenda. i don't know how many works i will compose. i

>> i played on one of liest's pianos. i was struck by the transparency , the independency of the notes in this. no. >> the most obvious differences in the layout of the strings. the typical modern grand piano as a two-tier design with the strings diagonally. daniel's strings are flat and straight. >> he said to one of his students, if you play accord of four notes, each one must have a different sound. that you can do on this. no. -- that you can do on this p iano. >> currently, there are only six of these pianos in the world. one of which was presented today in london at the royal festival hall where it will remain this week. it will be playing schubert's piano sonata. katty: i think whatever daniel played it would sound fabulous whether it was new or not. that brings the program to a close. you can find out more on our website. i am katty kay, from all of us that bbc world news, thank you for watching. we will see you tomorrow. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made

i didn't want to take piano.iend's house who has a keyboard and start playing? >> sat there chatting, and it was a peculiar, i kept looking over at it like i was curious. kennedy: drawn to it? >> yeah, drawn exactly to it, and then i -- after half hour or 45 minutes i walked over and i was just going to tinker and next thing you know -- >> did it just pour out of you? >> poured out. kennedy: what was going on in your head when this was happening? >> almost like a euphoric. i remember i was out in my own little space. and i wasn't even back to regular marbles, right? kennedy: how long between the head injury and the piano playing. >> i was on holiday visiting my mother, so after the accident, i slept for like five days, and then i popped out of it, i knew i had an accident, but didn't know what kind of accident, and then i thought, well, i can start packing and go home to denver. kennedy: still groggy, in pain. >> my eyes are black, head is swollen up. kennedy: you are playing piano. you said you are scoring music

>> his first love was the piano. along the way he invented a way to bring the audience to him. -- to them. it's now a gigantic musical database curated by listeners that aims to predict what you want to hear. you know it as pandora. today, more than 80 million people tune in every month to listen to millions of songs on over 7 billion pandora stations. joining me today, pandora founder tim westergren. thank you for coming. what is on your pandora playlist these days? tim: ben folds, and i find other artists i like. i have jazz, folk, country. emily: i was happy to find the "frozen" station, the toddler station. when did you discover your own musical talent? tim: i began playing piano when i was about seven. learning just another about chord structures and improvisation to allow me to get around the keyboard. after that i just fell in love with it. after i graduated, i spent the first few years playing piano nine hours a day. emily: how did you support yourself? i know you played at a holiday inn. tim: i was a nanny,

emily: his first love was the piano. he spent 10 years on the road, playing keyboard in a rock band, touring in a beat up van. along the way, he met so many musicians without an audience he decided to bring the audience to them. he began the music genome program, a database that aims to predict what you want to hear. you know it as pandora. today, more than 80 million people tune in every month to listen to millions of songs on over 7 billion pandora stations. joining me today on "studio 1.0," pandora founder tim westergren. tim, thanks for joining us. so great to have you. what is on your playlist these days? tim: the center of my musical bull's-eye is ben folds. p&l player. i find other artists i like on his station. a big font of discovery. i have jazz, punk, folk, country. emily: i was pleased to find the "frozen" station, the toddler radio station. tim: very popular. emily: when did you discover your own musical talent? tim: i began playing piano when i was seven, living in france, and learned enough about chord str

my life was piano all morning, afternoon with kids, and then come back home and play piano before i went to bed. taking care of kids is good preparation for managing a rock band. emily: then you actually went on the road. right, i got to see this hold invisible world of working musicians for a long time. the band was called yellow wood junction. emily: at what point did you say, this is not going to pay the bills? tim: it was the next chapter of my musical career. composetrying to anything i could get my hands on. commercial -- i was actually getting ready to move to l.a. and jump in wholeheartedly when the idea for this company popped into my head. emily: what was the lightbulb moment? tim: i read an article about aimee mann. the audience was not quite big enough for her to warrant the attention of a producer. she was kind of in a no man's land. all these hundreds of musicians i'd known, all living in a security, there was so the -- all this talent nobody knew about. one thing i had learned to do was understand someone's taste. essentiallyy putting them for a musical interview where i w

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and watches betsy give piano lessons to her piano students. >> very obsessed with the piano from daye would go underneath the piano, dance on top of the circles, look over their sheet music while they were playing. >> and one night the passionate puss decides to take music-making into her own hands or paws. >> burnell and i were upstairs, and we heard this plink, plink, plink, plink. repeated notes like two together. >> to their shocking delight, nora's playing. >> we saw nora sitting at the piano in perfect posture with both paws on the keys, playing with both paws, alternating, reaching for black notes. she would play, you know, five or six notes, a little riff, and look over at us like, you know, how was that. >> we totally lost it. we were like, oh, my god, oh, my god. look at this. nora, what are you doing? >> betsy believes this is just an isolated incident, but for nora, this is just the beginning. >> she started playing every day and started doing it during the piano students' lessons. >> nora becomes a neighborhood hit. betsy also wants to show the performances to her niece

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the new building designed by renzo piano will open a few blocks from its original location. it is called a depth series achievement and the city's changing colter landscape. joining me now, renzo piano and adam weinberg. this az remarkable -- this is a remarkable story. it is about a city. the driving passion of people to make sure that the whitney would live on and reflect our time in

daniel banboi is conducting the reinvention of the piano. >> hello.igh-ranking officials of tulle's world governing body have been arrested after two investigations were launched. here is what we know so far. a search warrant has been executed at the miami headquarters of the confederation of north central, american and association football. earlier a raid and several fifa officials arrested. 14 could be indicted in the u.s. to face corruption offices. the swiss office says it has opened a an investigation fifa will not consider a revote over the world cup in 2018 and 2022. >> no. as i said i cannot confirm the names. i cannot confirm how many people have been arrested and i can say what the president said in the past world press conference. it will be played in russia and qatar. >>> here is richard parr with what has happened so far. >> swiss please at the united states department of justice arresting officials from football's world governing body. they are suspected of bribery totalling more than $100 million and face extradition to the u.s. the cas

more than lang lang my friend the piano plash.can sit at the piano and play a beetles seconding or pick up the guitar and play a creedance clearwater guy or sing an opera that you or i knew. that was not a short answer. >> that's all right. i don't want short, i want expansive david foster. i think of the other amazing voices that you have worked with, and a couple of names - whitney houston. houston. >> i was between whitney houston and celine. now. >> great voices. it's worthy of saying this. celine was so amazing because whatever i asked her to do she'd do exactly what i wanted. like, i would cop up with a lick in my -- come up with a lick in my sound, she understood and delivered. whitney - she'd never give me what i wanted ever. she would give me something better than i asked or many times it would be worse. it's not what i wanted. but a lot of times it was better than what i asked for. >> what a loss. what are your thoughts on whitney houston not being on this planet singing? left a trove, a treasure trove of great songs. >>

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buildings, why aren't we talking to renzo piano? (laughter) >> rose: which ones did they love? >> the byler museum, the manil and the pampadi museum, those three were the ones names came you have over and over again. >> rose: but you said to them, i'm not prepared to compete. i don't do that. if you want me to do it, offer me job and i'll -- me the job and i'll do it. >> yeah, but i hope you understand. you saw the layout. at a certain age you don't want to fall in love with jobs like that. you don't want to fall in love and then the bride goes away with somebody else, it's just too much. >> rose: so you don't want to fall in love with the idea of building this museum because you're going to tell them what your vision may be and then they may say we're going with somebody else. >> yes, it's a passion. you cannot do this profession without passion. you have to put yourself into it. and also this was really incredible because i am european, i am italian. i grew up in my country. you grow up with great rulers and culture in italy but a

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we're going to have 12 pianos in the garden for 12 days. >> nice. >> all of you can come and play. >> i don't know i don't think you want to do that. >> so thank you very, very much. >> commissioner low will represent the department playing the piano (clapping.) let me ask generally managing pharmacologies before the final recognize i wanted to celebrate the partnerships are the botanical society and the department of both tangle garden is not just one of san francisco jewels but the world it is the love and stewardship and the resources to the garden i want to celebrate 0 out of the men and women sue ann noted maintain the garden on a daily basis a designated staff from our superintendent and the supervisor and jeanie the sprinkler and 11 gardeners that are fabulous and dedicated and committed in the spirit of public-private partnership i want to salute. >> 60th anniversary working together thank you (clapping.) and last but not least the jean friend recreation center it is long been an important community hub for children families and resident in the san francisco every vuflg south

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i use a german piano to compose my music.ns call me the beethoven of vietnam, and quy, the master of sonatas. here, this is the certificate. it makes me proud. ♪ nowadays, the world is dominated by american music. everyone performs pop, rap, and other kinds of music, which i think are a bit too disorderly. thank you for visiting me. i hope you enjoy the rest of your stay in vietnam. ♪ >> what a charming man. now bio-invaders sound like an , army. in fact, they often feel like one to native species. they can arrive from all over. it's more than just coincidence that the main routes for bio-invaders pretty much match -- pretty much look like a global transport map. these stowaways come at a price, causing an estimated 1 trillion euros in damage every year. some 12,000 such alien species live in the european union alone, with some of them causing serious damage. tunisia is currently having to learn to deal with an influx of jellyfish -- a pest for fishermen and tourists alike. scientists are struggling to keep them at bay and, f

see you next time. ♪ >> his first love was the piano.spent 10 years on the road playing keyboard on a rock band. along the way, he met many musicians who could not find an audience. he invented a way to bring the audience to them. it is not a gigantic musical database created -- curated by listeners that aims to predict what you want to

joining me now, renzo piano and adam weinberg. this az remarkable -- this is a remarkable story. it is about a city. the driving passion of people to make sure that the whitney would live on and reflect our time in the future as well. it is a great honor to have them back at this table. welcome. it is complete after some dozen years of planning and building. how do you characterize this moment for you? adam: the whitney has been trying to expand for 30 years. we tried to expand next were building uptown. it was for directors ago. the collection when we first moved in with 2000 works. today it is 22,000 works. the idea of being able to see not just what we have, but to offer possibilities and aspirational spaces for artists to do things like we have never been able to do before. charlie: and you're going back

he could reach the piano stool. composure at the keyboard made a lasting impression on the audience and a noted fellow pianist. >> i saw this little baby who is sitting on the bench and he had a hair -- i said what is her name? my name is alster. very nice accent. why are you here? i like to play piano and my parent put me into this event. i said, oh, that's cool. play something for me. he play for me. he was very young. he is still very young today. and i said, wow, this is a cute boy and he has potential, you know? >> you can check out the full show at cnn.com/onestowatch. war has left syria as one of the most dangerous places to live. as many as 300,000 people have been killed. >> that situation, of course, means there are survivors under the constant threat of attacks, but amid that tragedy, you know what? there is heroism. the white elements who serve as first responders and dr. sanjay gupta has this exclusive look for us. >> reporter: you're watching an extraordinary rescue in lipo, syria. for 12 hours, these

the oud is actually the most prominent instrument in arabic music, and it's as valuable as the piano western composer or performer. as far as i'm concerned, this is one of the greatest instruments in the world. it's very dear to me. ♪ her cheeks were like the lily white ♪ ♪ that bloom in yonder valley oh. ♪ (narrator) the human voice is perhaps the most flexible of all instruments. [singing traditional japanese music] [choir singing] the great variety of vocal timbres found around the world are reflected both in how singers render individual pitches and how they place their voices. ♪ i know i've been changed. ♪ (lausevic) there are so many elements that create a particular type of sound that are much more variable than when you're plucking an instrument or playing an instrument in which you have an expected sound. there is some aspect of the voice that is unique to each person. [singing doleful melody] when you're talking about vocal timbre, you need to think about whether the sound is coming from your throat, from your chest from your head and it's different from one culture to the

in a bar or teaching 13-year-olds are one of those people playing the piano while you are shopping in the department sure, but i'm going -- not going to play carnegie hall. i went to my parents and had the following conversation. i decided to change my major and i don't know what it is. it may be your life, but it is our money. my first thought was english literature. now, with all due respect, i hated it. [laughter] i decide on state and local government. that sounded practical. my project was to interview the city water manager of denver the single most boring and i have met to this day. i wondered into a course taught by a czech refugee, a man whose daughter was named madeleine albright. with that one class, i was hooked. i discovered that my passion were things that were national things rush in, and things diplomacy. needless to say, this is not exactly what a young black girl from birmingham was expected to do in the early 1970's, but it was like finding love. i couldn't explain it. i knew it was right. you know something else, several years later as i was taking off from a helic