he convinced hundreds to come to palestine and the orchestra was called the palestine symphony orchestra. they came to form with their guest conductor. i inherited that orchestra. there were austrians, poles, czech, et cetera. then they retired and in the '70s and'80s came the immigration soviet union. we didn't engage in just because it came from moscow, they had to pass a very difficult audition. we didn't know who they were because they were behind a curtain. >> you still do that to today, play audition behind a curtain? >> that's right, each one has won an audition. >> will there come a day when one of these students will sit behind a curtain and successfully become a curtain and become part of the orchestra? >> it is my dream that an israeli arab will sit among israeli jews and be an orchestra. i have a program in the north of israel in the cities of sharam and nazareth, where we have 250 kids studying israeli music, with members of the israel philharmonic. and we have wonderful charitable donors who support this program. and in th in the tel aviv, proge have seven or eight arab stu

there's no propaganda, we go on the tour as a world class orchestra. make music. >> this maestro seeks to make a profound impact on humanity. and he is not shy about the efforts, starting with his own ensemble. >> it is my dream that an israeli arab will sit amongst israeli jews and make music. >> why is it so meaningful? >> there are over 1 million israeli arabs living within today's boundaries of israel. and they should be included as one of us. >> you sympathise with the palestinians and are opposed to the settlements. >> i'm opposed to the settlements. i don't want to make a big discussion out of it, but settlements to the future of both palestine and israel are counterproductive. there are fanatics on both sides. it's not just the israeli palestine conflict that he's passionate about. >> he has led orchestras in the region of kashmir. >> there's something about you and conflict that draws each other. what is that. >> we must never stop using our art to help people, bring people together. in sarajevo the war was going on, and we played a concert in

the most challenging of all. string orchestraork. 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 francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. ♪ >> thank you for coming to the talent dance performance and talent show. [ applause ] >> today's performance and talent show. ♪ >> public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. >> you were awesome. >>> i'm nicole and lindse

as with the israelis too. >> you have conducted orchestras in sarajevo and kashmir. there seems to be conflict that draws one another, what is that? >> we plus not stop use our art to help people, bring people together. the sarajevo, we played a concert in the bombed courtyard of an islam ick library. one of the first things that the sesh serbs bombed was the courtyard of book. no public could be allowed it was only for television. but we did the rehearsals in the non-bombed theater. where three or four times it was full and the sarajevo public came to listen. it was my lifelong dream to have muslims and hindus, come and listen together. i didn't change history from the end of that concert but they sat together and heard beethoven and tc hykofsky. >> india is very important to you. i wonder if you could describe your path from india to israel, i know it's a very long story. >> no, i'm still an indian with my pas passport. i studied in berlin. i got a call that a very venerable conductor eugene ormandy was ill. they had nobody, i had just cond

the most challenging of all. string orchestrasolo 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 francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts he

msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. 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;

he is the conductor of the orchestra. all the cues come from the principal musician, and the person who is playing the improvisation. he plays what we call a break or ausical cue, and that will sound different depending on whatever style they're playing. we hear the cue-- it's an established rhythm-- and once we hear it, we know to start our step. you have to follow their feet, you know, how their hands move, and if the dancer gotta move like that, you got to make sure you got the connection and the language-- the language you have to do from all her movement from her body, you have to go together. maybe you can go "baaaaadaaaadum, baaaaadaaaadum." (sharriff) there is a direct relationship-- we like to say a marriage-- between the music and the dance. the musicians actually control the tempo. mandiani is a social dance which means that it's not ceremonial or ritualistic. i like to say that mandiani is like doing our street dance-- you know when we're just "hey," that's what we do here to self entertain, or to have a house

the most challenging of all. string orchestraork. 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.

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i took the munich opera orchestra who gave up two weeks of their vacation and their pay to go and play in kashmir which is probably a little bit of a dangerous area. the government of kashmir was traffic in organizing the concert. the german embassiy was very instrumental in getting money together from germany. my friends in india helped and we played bethoven and tchaikovsky for an hour and-a-half and i feel there was peace. hindus and muslims in kashmir have been living in a state of crises for over 50 years. >> rose: where are you on wagner in terms of other than respect him as a great musician. >> in israel? i think we should play it. but i think we should wait. there are still people. >> rose: wait. >> yes. there are still people with numbers on their arms. we don't want to insult them because music transport them back to the time of terror. and this we cannot argue emotionally. and wagner does take them back. al then they might not have heard it in their camps. some of them are still survivors of the camps. >> rose: what else do you want to do now that you have all of this. >> i

we go on the tour as a world class orchestra. >> this maestro seeks to make is profound impact on man. he is not shy about the efforts, starting with his own ensemble. >> it is my dream that an israeli arab would sit amongst israeli jews and make music. >> why is it so meaningful. >> there are over one million israeli arabs living within today's boundaries of israel. they should be included as one of us >> you sympathise with the palestinians and are opposed to the settlements. >> i'm opposed to the settlements. i don't want to make is a discussion. but i think settlements to the future of palestine and israel are counterproductive. there are fanatics on both sides. >> it's not just the palestine-israel conflict. he led tours to sarajevo and kaz mish. >> there's something about you and conflict that draws each other. what is that? >> we must never stop using our art to help people, to bring people together. in sarajevo it was in the war, "94 the boston war was still going, and we played a concert in the bombed courtyard. one of t

>> i have a concert with the bnf philharmonic on the 16th. >> good orchestra? >> wonderful. h the israeli philharmonic on the 20th. it is wonderful to have two orchestras where you only discuss every point of view with musicians. >> anything you would do different at your life and career? which has provided you with such a remarkable life? did you wish for something you did not do? >> there is a lot of music. there are still a lot of music. i have not stopped studying. when will the studying stop? it does not stop. >> studying what composers might have met? >> new scores. new scores, of course. you can't do strauss without doing the corresponding -- you have to do so much homework. it goes with every opera you do. >> you didn't set out to be a musician. he said up to be a doctor? >> you set out to be a doctor? >> we come from an upper-middle-class parsi family. our families have professions that are decided. >> you left for music early on. >> i had a cousin in new york. i'm sorry, in vienna. my parents had enough courage to send me to vienna. it went on from there. >> and con

funding for this program was provided by the annenberg cpb/project. [orchestra plays] (male narrator) the fabric of music can be woven in many different ways. [flutes play] throughout the world people have devised fascinating methods of blending instruments and voice to produce an infinite variety of musical textures. [trio playing] texture refers to the relationship of voices and instruments in an ensemble. it's the way they're blended together into a musical whole. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] what i'd like to do now is start with the tenor section, then the alto and the soprano, and then i'll add the bass. one, two, three, and ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land... ♪ (narrator) the subject of musical texture raises a number of questions. how are the different voices or instruments in a performance put together and organized? let's add the altos, altos, tenor, and bass, ready ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land... ♪ (narrator) how many parts are there? does one voice or melody stand out? how do the various parts relate to each other? one

he is currently leading the orchestra and seven conserves including the premiere of frank zappa's 200 motels. plus his own violin consider cho -- concerto. let's listen as they play his violin concerto. ♪ tavis: you really consider yourself a composer more than a conductor. >> it started out like that. fluke.ng happened, by tavis: what do you mean by fluke? >> i was studying to be a musician, back in the 1970's, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time are not interested in our stuff. we felt that we had to have one conductor among the group to do all that, so i was chosen to be that one. this is actually something i like doing, so it started like that. but i never thought i would have an entire career as a conductor. that was not part of my plan. tavis: >> what is the joy, the difference between the joy that composing brings you and the joy that conducting brings you? >> conducting is intensely social. you work with a hundred people every day. you collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts and give them a concert. you try to inspire them, and it's actually e

orchestra. we should never underestimate that power. i took theunich opera orchestra who gave up two weeks of vacation and pay to go and play in kashmir which is probably dangerous. the government was terrific in organizing the concert. the german embassy was very instrumental in getting money together from germany. my friends in india helped. we played beethoven and tchaikovsky for an hour and a half. i feel there was peace. it is a naÏve way of talking of course. havehindus and muslims been living in a state of crisis for over 50 years. >> where are you in terms of wagner? >> i think we should play it. we should wait. there are still people with numbers on their arms. we don't want to insult them. music transports them back to the time of terror. this we cannot argue emotionally. back,gner does take them although they might not have some of in their capsmps, them are still survivors of the camps. >> what else do you want to do? wagner operastill i have not conducted. >> really? >> i have done 90% of wagner. one has not presented itself. i was go

go and check out the orchestra in virginia. e. >> i am going. . >> you can come and stay at my house and it is the high yet house. >> bye, everybody. tonight. stay with fox news channel. i'm off tomorrow night. here's huck bee. >>> the barack obama administration pushes for military budget cuts. will our shrinking military be ready to fight off future attacks? >>> and harry reid says obamacare nightmare stories are made up lies. >> there are plenty of horror stories being told. those tales turned out to be just that, tales. >> trying telling that to a woman who lost coverage for our cancer medication. >>> plus arizona's governor vetoes the state's religious freedom bill. >> i sincerely believe that senate bill 1062 has

and his section is making from all the other sounds in the orchestra. >> exactly. >> so the red is the group of kids who have had music experience. and between year one and year two the perception in noise is a straight line up? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: and the black line represents the control group that started music in year two. their comprehension of meaning in a noisy environment goes up only then. after they started music. >> and the kids who've now had two years of musical experience are continuing to make gains. music education is an important investment in teaching a child all kinds of skills. >> reporter: dr. krause is still analyzing data. but she says preliminary findings suggest music may enhance the neurological development of kids in the harmony program who had been behind in school. >> you can document that kids who have had musical education now have nervous systems that respond more accurately and precisely to meaningful elements in language. >> in science, i have very low grades. once i started music, being able to practice and concentrating, my science grades have go

political proposition what did they took a trip to the city was safe to say did you get to bed the orchestra patiently for the top of that but at the beach. the doctor to pack light of the decade but the two of the that entire period of delay should deal with it. what a lot of time that we are that it doesn't thicken as it comes in school for two of the few that i get to the top of the times. or did he die. try it but we understand the teachings of the security of the plants and outside of the great and it's not yet that is how it turned to respond to that of the performance or is it with the abode of grace. mr elkington very much to be a day. business news now uncertainty over the situation in ukraine is leaning on traders' minds historic homes for them to make the tourney. the crises in crimea lift its market a german stock market pretty much pre show on the backs which we covet the beach at the end that trait is awarded administration that sanctions would be very harmful for the german economy but even much more. five the economy in russia i am standing she has had in stock market in mosc

when the earthquake struck the homes of some orchestra members were damaged or destroyed. but this indie philharmonic steel plated schools and evacuation centers in the devastated region soon after the disaster. how the teams are people we have a close relationship with us. i had to do something. we only wanted to share music with sam and hopefully give them strength. with that. a day colts. nice to not to put on police wanted to express my gratitude to hand. and when i think about it since music is powerful stuff i was in the finn music itself will to give her the message. and steve people karina so. can it be. music lovers feel the concert hall on the day of the benefit concert to hear sue and i performed with this indie film. movie. most cash flows to her. and into the hearts of the us the eye i didn't think to myself. we must not forget about the disaster. i think musical helpers on review. i'm very thankful that he held his concert in st. i also wanted to put a lot going on to music i believe is what people want from me. i want to keep cool can i say these benefit conc

. ♪ at a charity concert in warsaw, the orchestra is playing to raise money for poland's crisis. ♪ poland's ukrainian government are singing the same tune, russia cannot again be allowed to dominate eastern europe. >> translator: we hope that the efforts of the international community will lead to the peaceful solution of the conflict in ukraine but we need to be read for the darkest of scenarios in ukraine part of which is now taking place and treat the annexation as one of the scenarios. >>> evidence of a time when poland was under soviet control is not hard to find here. this is a controversial monument for polish people and buried here are the remains of 21,000 of the soviet troops who died liberating poland of the nazis at the end of the second world war but not leaving poland until 1993 and there are very few polish who would ever want to see russians return and 72% of the polls think the current situation is a threat to security and discussed on street corners and these people are too young to remember it but know their history. >> translator: the situation in ukraine develops and we

the concert is a big orchestra. me on the drums. and the started out as this movie over our head.backdrop. then i started to make the movie. i cut the 2 1/2 hours down to 90 minutes. started to drink the kool-aid. started to realize the movie itself is something else. i mean it is much bigger than charlton heston movie. it cost $4 million. >> which in that money back then is, at least, $8 million. >> yeah. >> that's probably like, what $25 billion. >> $25 billion. >> quick with arithmetic. >> $25 billion. why do i listen to you? it is expressive. they have to be. >> it's silent. i can go crazy. i have this great music. then they have a sound effect. and battle scene. the sword fight. ♪ ♪ and then you see the movie. it's clank, clank, clank. what's going on? this movie is a silent movie. which means it belongs to me. >> it is yours. >> i'm on my drums. ain't no singing going on. ain't no dialogue going on. i got a 90-piece orchestra and my drums. we are going to make something happen. >> will this move out from virginia? >> yeah, yeah. >> go places. >> i got a little carried away.

thought the first time that i knew tymoshenko has been playing a somewhat nationalist card but the orchestra has seen haven't heard such radical statements coming from the week we go back to pre teens and when she was running for presidency back then she opened wide to wait in the postcard. that is to win the electorate in the west of ukraine has always been rather nationalist and anti russian to a certain extent. however this time the city that reads this committee because of a shortcut to which i should hold it in a very new level jian hao electrical issues now again a presidential candidate and i would be now the illegal boats with such and such where it took four days ago to greet and talk to me when she was treated with back pains and do some clothes told the truth of what some ornaments they were quite contradictory. she said that ukraine will fight for returning to the crimea for turning the crank the land to its cousin back into its helm until the day was a lot of ukrainian until the chocolate ukrainian blood has been at this rate i'm basically just a few sentences later she said tha

you are the conductor of the orchestra.ience, and you're it controlling. >> it is amazing. >> it has been a long road, but tina fey and amy poehler hosted the golden globes, and ellen degeneres as did the oscars. if you look at late night, chelsea handler, and that is that. is a long way to go. >> disasters playing four nights a week, monday, to decouple thursday, friday. family-friendly. tina fey edited entertainment weekly, and that was her pick for what show does he. >> fantastic. on saturday and sunday you're on the standup ring. >> it is not an easy life. >> thank you for coming. >> that is it for "street smart ." see you tomorrow. ♪ -- it is 57 parsed 46 stocks he said the day in the red, but they paired losses heading into the close. we got a disappointing report on u.s. manufacturing, 0 slow a slight slow-down. so that weighed on equities early on. here is what is happening on the treasuries markets. yields coming up only one basis point on the 10-year note. the two-year note falling a little bit with the yields goi

my name and kicking the can the money in the orchestra's season welfare payments. she and her children need to go on collecting recyclable cardboard to get by. there's no way they could afford to rent an apartment in madrid prices. if he can crack in the alley had that there are these times he held his hand and that it's easy to find some answers and he did an ok every app but couldn't. then that i get to me. municipal services one region of garbage collections in an attempt to keep down the nets and electricity supply has been hardwired by residents the power companies turn a blind eye. a wall. sunday i slept in as we set up is an extremely precarious and illegal. in wintertime when madrid uses more time the electricity is cut off him. when i'm in some. when will she uses the highest it runs out in kenya. so they're all sometimes when im without water or electricity. going away too. in some places the shanty town runs up against newly developed residential areas. for many their opinion that is in place or that has to go to the last ten years. a citizens group has

the west led the orchestra will to defend each opera being an aunt uncle one as an attack on all fronts of the same issue with nothing twenties before jumping in. nato countries will soon learn how to go to the nato countries the u states england and other conditions. the single statement that the rebel forces in syria to try to use this civil war as an instrument of regime change which it ends up with something. that just make it to the government. so there's no space between turkey and other nato countries on this so it back there was a patch of forces that were looking for a provocation. it would also wonder what was in the united states and also in europe who are increasingly worldwide who would like to see more of a the west and nato intervention inside syria. we know that the four hundred forces have been continually agitating the united states and in europe and certainly other forces in turkey that you'll be saying what. the sign on the ground trying to run a nation again serie a team and prepare to take his previous attempts to spark a full blown war but did say that but the blo

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the musical director of the israel philharmonic orchestra. he took over that job one year before the camp david accords. the renown conductor spoke to al jazeera's david shuster about israeli settlements and what he hopes musk can achieve. >> i am apposed to the settlements. i don't want to make a big discussion out of it. i'm just telling you that i think the settlements to the future of both palestine and israel are current productive. but this is for not only this government of israel, but the people who are pushing them from outside to negotiate as soon as possible. >> you also said that the palestinians bear some responsibility because there have been attacks not on the settlements but israel property. >> well, there are fanatics on both sides. i would not say the majority at all. there is a minority in israel and on the other side, too, that wants the status quo to continue. those people have to be convinced or just not paid attention to, and people who want to negotiate should just go on in a positive direction. >> is there something ca

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