this is where a group of turkish youngsters have revamped richard wagner apostle music with the help of a german rapper. >> when you hear wagner, what comes to mind was -- ♪ at least that's what i heard. >> this is what wagner usually sounds like. earlier this year, the wagner festival launched an online contest to set wagner to wrap -- rap. >> the entry was amazingly musical. but it had also worked on the test a lot. it was almost a finished music video. an excellent, all around package. >> the winners got to take part in a workshop. their task was to rewrite "the right of the valkyries" as a wrap -- rap. >> wagner's music is really for everyone. it is really interesting to combine his sound with rap rhythms. >> wagner chose just the right notes. the important and the good ones, and wrote them down. >> an orchestra played "the flying dutchman" for us. that was wonderful. >> the original "ride of the valkyries" was a battle cry, but the new take on it is a plea for peace and for the noise of their people to be heard. ♪ >> ok. >> if it does the trick, ok. some sports now. to table topp

beethoven forged elements from military and funeral marches, and that "dissonant shriek" that richard wagner as a "terror fanfare," how he took all of that and created "a great ceremonial work that doesn't just preach freedom and the unity of peoples but attempts however strangely to foster them." composed by a tortured man who during the bloody napoleonic wars wrote -- "what a destructive, disorderly life i see and hear around me, nothing but drums, cannons and human misery in every form." so, those of you who despair of the collapse of civilization, those of us who report it, and all of you trying to repair it can take heart from what emerged out of hard and bitter times, take heart from how beethoven "erected," in jan swafford's words," a movement of epic scope on a humble little tune that anybody can sing." mysterious, yes. as mysterious as hope in a broken world. >> on our last two broadcasts, i've asked you to respond to questions relevant to america's human rights record both here and abroad. the first was about president obama's use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. i asked, do