i think -- >> there is an image of symphony in that propaganda video. why the symphony shot?t to quickly run through, doctor, some of these and have you tell me briefly why are they there? why the symphony? >> absolutely. i think the symphony was wonderful and it echoed the visit of the new york ilharmonic to pyongyang in 2008. at the end of that performance, which was for about i think 1,000 people from the north korean elite, the symphony played a beautiful korean song that all koreans know, and the entire audience wept. writers, christiane amanpour talked about the emotion in the room when she did her piece on cnn, and writers such as anna of "the washington post" how that stirred emotion at the time and raised a lot of video. i think the video touches on that message of hope and that's very beautiful. >> sylvester stallone in the oval office with president trump. why the stallone image? >> i think, again, to -- similar to the basketball dunk and sort of hinting at chairman kim's friendship with dennis rodman, i think it was designed to appeal in different ways. >> final q

simon rattle's last day as head conductor of the berlin philharmonic is conducting mahler's six symphony just as he did in one nine hundred eighty seven when he first worked with the full monic first as visiting conductor and since two thousand and two as its principal now the rattle era is coming to an end. it's it's also be here in berlin get to experience after i think it's thirty one years to be it is lachelle it's yeah it's truly special i could feel like being the center with a universe in front it was a bit weird if you how many simon rattle. says simon has brought the traditional orchestra up to date for the twenty first century . he brought young musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds into the fela monic introduced more contemporary works into the repertoire and had concert streamed on to cinema screens his farewell concert was seen live in more than two hundred cinemas in twelve year opinion countries here in berlin of course but also in the british capital with simon is now conducting the london symphony orchestra. funded as a change brings the opportunity for a new beginnin

why the symphony? >> i think the symphony was wonderful.ed the visit of the new york philharmonic to pyongyang in 2008. and at the end of that performance which was for about i think 1,000 people from the north korean elite, the symphony played a beautiful korean song that all koreans know. and the entire audience wept. and writers, christian amanpour talked about the emotion in the room when she did her piece on cnn. and writers of "the washington post" have talked about how much emotion that stirred at the time and really raised a lot of hope. and i think the video -- >> sylvester -- >> it's very beautifully done. >> sylvester stallone in the oval office with president trump. why the stallone image? >> i think again, similar to the basketball dunk, and sort of hinting at chairman kim's friendship with dennis rodman, i think it was designed to appeal in different ways. >> final question, how will we know if it worked? >> i think we won't know yet, but i think the real way to know if it works is how it plays into the ability of president tr

choose their principal conductor is the only world as ceasar russell came from the bombing of a symphony orchestra britten aminah and a very crucial question for the minnow in comparison to the voted for the ball make the decision by the musicians has really paid off he's extended their repertoire and it's still retains its position as it will be found i think it's time to him all from last night's concert. mr simon rattle's talent passion and charisma have been the hallmarks of the world renowned berlin philharmonic since his appointment in two thousand and two. for his farewell concert he chose the same piece of music he conducted at his debut here as a guest in one nine hundred eighty seven dollars six. is that minus miss funk is if he's not of this world he takes the audience and his orchestra with him through the emotional storm of mahler's sixth into this musical universe because when you've as i could feel like being sent over the universe it's also to be here in berlin and get to experience this after i think it's thirty one years to be it is lachelle it's yeah it's truly special

concert from here in berlin to the british capital where simon will continue to conduct the london symphony orchestra. but this is by no means goodbye for good simon is planning to be with the berlin philharmonic next season. just as he was in one thousand maybe seven as a guest conductor. will remember what is next for the orchestra and indeed for society well simon's already the music director of the london symphony orchestra actually going to stay living here in berlin because he has a young family go to schools here the orchestra will now embark on a sort of season with a principal conductor and have lots of guest conductor but then this man will come along in the beginning of the twenty nine hundred season this is carol pretend to train car the name says name right the russian conductor whose car in charge of the bavarian state opera his start his tenure in twenty nineteen as you can see he ducks from great fire and fury and he's just forty six years old which is like a baby as it. conducts his conduct into the eighty's and ninety's sometimes it really is very young a point he's the th

hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from the symphony of the seas, the worlde ship. in april i was aboard for the ship's maiden voyage, so what better place to look at some of our favourite recent stories on the programme. here is a taste of what's to come. wow! so that is go? that its top? let's kick off with a trip back from march, the egypt, where ade got his first—ever glints of the pyramids at giza. he went to a new museum that houses the world's largest archaeological collection. so here is 5000 years of history condensed into five minutes. here in the shadow of the pyramids, a new ambitious project is entering the final stages of construction. the grand egyptian museum will be equipped to take the country's ancient treasures way into the future. this place is absolutely enormous. the footprint is half a million square metres. there are over 3000 labourers working here 24/7, over 3000 labourers working here mn, and it cost over a billion us dollars to construct. this is the main atrium, it is the entrance, and when you arrive you are greeted by this impo

here in berlin of course but also in the british capital with simon is now conducting the london symphony orchestra. funded every change brings the opportunity for a new beginning of fun and i think he's been here for long enough it's a shame he's going on much of the heavy back it was a lovely farewell topsy. and it's by no means goodbye for good simon's planning to be with the ballin fella monic next season just as he was in one thousand nine hundred seven as a guest conductor. so you know it's now thanks for watching. enter the conflict zone there's been plenty of coverage of the thousands of casualties inflicted by israel along the border with gaza but what's been the role of hamas in the bloodshed by case just a song by hamas on a senior member of hamas is fooling all the hear of the move closer to live with me for both israel with no school official for the safety of its citizens conflicts. with the coming of b. c. one could be with the mind. as soon as you can do that and for me was about preventing medina to uncouple to dodge. confused mocking one and two and why she got beyond th

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musicians for brahms symphony number one for three days in berlin the first with stanley dogs and it's a simon russian. stand to be feel orchestra is actually really your baby you came up with this idea you know that it's the last year where simon is here and simon is very much. part of this idea because he just absolutely embraces anybody who loves music so you've prepared the orchestra simon's come in at the last moment that's that's the life of an assistant conductor isn't it i would say i lost my mind i mean here he's really working very hard with the orchestra as we speak now actually but now i it's someone has to take charge of how we're going to organize is having to the application process and how we're going to make the decision the very very difficult decision of how to reduce nineteen hundred people who were interested to come and then what they were required to do was submitted video showing what they could do on their instruments and also telling us a little about themselves and all these people are berlin film on it fans absolutely and i think what's so wonderful about th

years and now people there are marking a key anniversary it's a century since beethoven's ninth symphony was first performed in japan by an unusual good. and the audience in the southern japanese city of no ruto is hardly low brow beethoven has long been gazing over gatherings here far from being foreign his music is familiar. from. word. this is where japan's love of beethoven began german soldiers were brought here during world war one after being captured in china by the japanese during their internment they were allowed to play football form an orchestra and stage theater productions. this exhibition describes how the band a prisoner of war camp became a music school despite the reluctance of some. will testify moved by the story i like singing to the jones lawyers if i'm really impressed we trap unease have always had a great deal of sympathy for the germans you know. the festivities brought together generations with the granddaughter of one former prisoner making a special visit from berlin and my grandfather to the keeping hand in turn he learned chinese and dutch and also how to

geniuses to juggle costa all the rulings of portuguese penalty everyone but sting the skull was like a symphony which was astonishing put out as a chalky before tonic was alone nodal time again in superstar scoring portugal second purchasing of dogma to chaos horrific blunder. and shortly after the break it was all square again spence to go costello was a brain cell his own right i mean minutes later spain took some heat for the first time through i'm not sure said monday us and sis bets off. but it's up to eighty eight minutes up step just general knowledge will be back this equalizer it's general knowledge history speak straight. still with me i am ready as i'll show us what again and made you think it was a fair result fair in terms of the better team winning i'm not so sure you know spend dominated the game they had much more attempts on goal you know they had more passes with better accuracy but portugal played a good game and if you're spain just can't give away penalties like that and dangerous free kicks to play like christiana ronaldo absolutely and actually chris you never know there'

. >> yeah, we have something for everyone from scitar to symphony, rock to reggae. our artists have won over 20 grammies and we have a rock 'n roll hall of famer. international artists making their u.s. debut. it's just a terrific lineup this year. >> and ziggy marley as part of the lineup which is pretty awesome. >> and we have some of the aspirin of legends. >> alfree. >> totally free. this day and age i think that's a really special thing. we offer people a chance to be spectacular venue and listen to world-class music. all of it. >> we fund raise all year long to bring this gift to the people of san francisco and people donate at the shows. that makes a big difference and brings it to life. it's a community festival. >> there is reserve seating but it's mostly first-come first- served. any tips? >> you want to come out early if you want a good seat but no matter when you come, we've got a space for you. >> sundays at 2:00 all the way through august 19. s a 3-d printer in space! >> grab a picnic blanket and come on out. >> it's so much fun. thank you so much. ter

with in one thousand the seventy five melody sixty three he plans to focus on conducting the london symphony orchestra. on sunday and the same token in the paris neighborhood of montana dedicated to sculptor i'll get a jacket making the highlight is an authentic reproduction of a studio originally from such a land jack american spent most of his life in paris widely regarded as one of the twentieth century formal sculptors his personal style involves of being brand sculptures in all sizes now fifty years after death some of his works can be seen here for the first time. thousands of people gathered in stonehenge southern england on thursday morning to celebrate the year's longest day which began there at sunrise ad from fifty two am every year spiritually minded pilgrims meet on the summer solstice at the prehistoric cult site. on june twenty first this year the visitors have special permission to enter the entering. and admission to the in asco world cultural heritage site is free. now to an artist whose works on display to museums or galleries she doesn't paint on canvases but rather on he

his father was the founder of the bombay symphony orchestra in india. >> i heard music in my home beforeon't remember whether i sang first or spoke gujarati, my mother tongue. and i went to a jesuit school n-bomb bay where all the teachers and priests were fans of my father, so they would ask me for tiktds for his concerts. >> did that help you or hurt you at the time. >> no. they still failed me sometimes, certain subjects. >> reporter: mehta left bombay d. study music in viennaby h w thughout the 1960s and '70s, he would conduct the montreal symphony orchestra and los angeles philharmonic orchestra and in the '80s, mehta served as music director for the new york philharmonic and was named music direct fehr life of the israel philharmonic orchestra. >> did you feel ever -- any prejudice against you for either your youth or the fact that it was unusual to have someone -- >> never. >> -- from india? never? >> never. >> one of the great things about playing with zubin is that you're not just playing with somebody who is a wonderful conductor, but you're also playing with somebody who's a p

. >> reporter: among the symphony of sounds at b.a.r.t. stations there are also these sights greeting b.a.r.t. riders, drug users shooting up captured in video from civic center b.a.r.t. and in pictures from the concord b.a.r.t. elevator. >> you go up the tunnel to the financial district, there's people right on the stairs and, you know, they're using needles or they're smoking. >> human waste is something i've seen frequently. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. is now launching a mobile app where you can report biohazards like needles and even human waste. you can get that app at b.a.r.t..gov monday, but the app won't address the root of the problem. maurice benton says he's lived on this street and thinks the city and b.a.r.t. aren't doing enough. >> both of them have more money that they could put into different programs for the drug offenders, for the homeless people. >> but b.a.r.t. is a transit agency. we're not a social service agency. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. board member and former san francisco homeless czar bevin dufty spoke to kpix5's phil mat

her sing rock monograph second symphony with the munich philharmonic orchestra. lorenzo v.o.t. believes a conductor needs to activate something within the musicians. rather than in organisation the challenge lies in radiating energy and arousing emotions. will. soon lead to this kind of leadership is something you have or you don't like you can't learn it and you have to be able to stand in front of a hundred people who don't know and say this is my place when that's as old as the snitch my butt off because you're the boss because you can say follow me for can see here. we go there together. twenty eight year old the rent's of the uk he is from switzerland his mother is a violinist his father was the renowned conductor much of yachting. we catch up with him in zurich between opera her sells this autumn he'll move to lisbon where he'll head the gold thinking an orchestra. the orchestra said it chose him because he strives to make each concert a unique experience. it's his first position as musical director. here in zurich he's working with world class tenor piotr but. you know h

babeu square for the twelfth year in a row the event drew huge crowds to enjoy a stellar open air symphony concert for free. thanks. the shunts cup ellabella an orchestra conducted by daniel barenboim performed among other things a work by giacchino receive any some forty thousand people attended the event. this weekend fans of fantasy author james king descended on a forest near the czech city of doxy one thousand enthusiastic playing or just war zone man reenacted the battle of five minutes from tolkien's famous novel the hobbit. these mock battles have been stage for most twenty years now thanks to weapons made of plastic and want nobody has ever been. extravagant hats and exquisite dresses were on display at the one hundred seventy fifth please d.m. close race in champion this weekend the race sometimes referred to as the french oaks is the most glamorous of its kind in all of france. the winner of sunday's race secured one million euros in prize money and not i mean that is also an award for best dressed mademoiselle. now we take to the skies with a feather a friend the stalling for t

symphony in times and her dancing very smooth and pleasant very expressive she's very suited to the role while a passing stroke i really like her expression for a lot of the dancers because that oppression has such beautiful technical proficiency it's nice to see how that she can layer her artistry on top of that as well. in november all grossman over will return to hamburg to give further performances of the idea of the coming years. it's all over now a song where used by the rolling stones in one thousand nine hundred sixty four it seems it's never over for them the members of one of the most famous bands of all time i have aged a little but musically they are turning up the heat down the stones are on tour again most of the voted founds is matt leaf from london who won't miss a single concert by the british band and he has one of the biggest private collections of songs more billy around. there's almost three hundred years of life experience assembled on this stage the rolling stones are currently on their no filter european concert tour and living up to their reputation as the hardes

sentimental journey take a trip back in time on the venice symphony orient express. and magic moments magician through time balance and joins us as our special studio guys. but first for talk of her joseph ford doesn't just doesn't just take pictures he likes to blend his subjects into the background of whatever he's shooting and this involves wrapping them in a lab written it where there's a lot of preparation that needs to take place before an image take shape we got a closer look on the shoot with ford in the u k. it isn't often that internationally famous british d.j. and musician fat boy slim blends into the background but today is an exception here in the english town of brighton he's the model for photographer joseph ford for dresses his subjects in hand items matching their surroundings creating a chameleon effect for his knitted camouflage project fat boy slim agreed to wear a new robe created specially to fade into the eight metre wide smiley face painted on his rooftop assume. that's that's my street bike on it since of humor and attention to the. ford has

striking andso interesting, as this young was killed, he got up and he said, gentlemen, i want to a symphony of fire. he quoted general patton that day. and every one of us, including me -- i was a civilian but armed an m-16 because i wanted to survive that day. we fired down the block and we suppressed those people. cameal years later, we back and i was given the honor marines, the fifth which he led at that time, to normandy. and we toured the normandy battlefields with the men that i in fallujah with. and we went to pointe du hoc, of this the subject book, "dog company," which i'm about.o talk the book that i talked about earlier was called we were one, battle of fallujah. when we were at pointe du hoc, beaches,wind swept from that peninsula, it was a magical moment. i was with people that i fought with in fallujah. and we went back in time to world war ii. let me take you back in time to june 6, 1944. six a.m. force a, which is most of the battalion, d, e, company. most important objective of d-day, pointe du hoc. six guns thathad could reach omaha and utah beach the naval ships out in t

were, as this young marine was killed, we got up and he said, giovan, i -- antleman, i want to see symphony of fire. he quoted general patton. everyone of us, i wanted to survive the day, fired down the block and we suppress those people. about several years later, we came back. i was given the honor of taking the fifth marines, which he led at that time, to normandy. we toured the battlefield with the men that i was in fallujah with. we went to pointe du hoc, which is the subject of this book "dog company." the book i talked about earlier was called " we were one." when we were at pointe du hoc on those windswept beaches on the peninsula, it was a magical moment. i was with people i had fought with info lucia. -- in fallujah. we went back in time to world war ii. let me take you to june 6, 1944. 6 a.m. is, most of the 2nd ranger battalion, d, e, and the most, assault -- important objective of d day -- pointe du hoc. thate du hoc had six guns could reach omaha and utah beach as well as the ships in the english channel. everything was done to neutralize the guns of pointe du hoc. there were

those six years after the fact, all of them had achieved to desegregate business offices the chicago symphony orchestra have taken these experiences to use those later in life and if you think about when i them throughout the united states, they did a lot and it was the kind of wisdom from desegregating faces about hatred and to not backhand how to survive. and then i would like to and take the question by mentioning she graduated from university of oklahoma first african-american to pass the bar was actually educated in oklahoma. the first faculty member color at the university and she a and became a member of the very board of regents try to make sure she entered. her last act upon retiring was to create the endowed chair for and needed health and hired her initially and when she would testify at the thomas hearing she came to rely on her very quickly what she had to say fema this is a need to tell talking neck as i settled into my role there i drew on her yet another week she supported me today i got there and then finally when i needed it most when my job was threatened after i testified

they have never been to the ballet or symphony, but do come to the c.c.c. to visit the innovative exhibitions and to enjoy world class performances at the chinatown festival and dance on waverly. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is talley wong on behalf of the asian pacific islander council of san francisco, we are asking that the board of supervisors put back the 18 expiring programs into the budget. these 18 expires programs come just under $1.5 million. these funded programs include needs around behavioral health, domestic violence, workforce development, youth services, tenant rights, neighborhood and cultural services, and immigrant services, so these programs collectively serve over 200,000 low-income residents. and our 18 members are here today and will be giving you more details about the expiring program. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: what was the figure? >> rounding up, it's 1.6 million, but it's just under that. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning