Now when he was just a little boy. A box sweet for a cello moved to tears so his mom very wisely sent him to a cello teacher now hes one of the worlds top soloists and has before with old the major orchestras to great acclaim and hes even cofounded an entire Symphony Orchestra in bolivia. Beethoven in cochabamba bolivia. Within just a few years of its birth you were cast off yet im only got to believe you has become one of the countrys top orchestras cofounded by german cellist leo not. Live in violinist me. It was on a South American Tour in Two Thousand And Twelve that edge and both met salazar and other young bolivian musicians and i was struck by their passionate playing but also by their limited funds. Just months later engine was back in
bolivia with european funding to help found the orchestra since then hes returned regularly as a soloist and mentor. His enthusiasm there has been infectious whether its for contemporary composers or for Beethoven Sonata is he recorded for his new album coming out next month. And hot off the press i have a copy of the album which isnt out quite yet but will be in a couple of days thats because ive got a copy because ive got the man himself with me his name broke welcome to the program you recorded these offices in baldwin beethovens birthplace was there a special reason for that. Well it was it was a coincidence that asked us to do it but. It was nice to be so close to where he
was born and we visited his house and we shot three trailers over the city as well for the album and it was great to be so so close to where where he was born and to visit his birthplace and its the i think its four hundred i dont know how many hundred Six Hundred Fifty a Two Hundred Fifty. Just now i want to talk about this extraordinary orchestra bolivia what is so special about it in that you give you devote a loss of your time to it why is that its. Because i met musicians for really burning for for their own development burning to have music in their country in a place where there was nothing to support that and not even any suggestion that they could make a living that way it wasnt like somebody said young people should make music lets lets invest but they were just we want this. We dont all we have is the passion in our hearts and and whatever we can find online to listen to music we can
print but there was no structure there was no system in place and i just thought if i dont do something who will and its amazing how quickly it develops and i mean young people today it must be hard to get them not perhaps in bolivia but to Classical Music is everything is sort of its going to be two seconds loam has not made for Classical Music you need a bit of patience so thats the thing theres so much. Initiative to get young people to like Classical Music and there that was the it was the opposite they already found in their heart the love for the music that is was in anybody to help them improve or out some you know work with them and bring them to the next level and so it was a very different kind of work i had to do i didnt have to explain to them the meaning of the meaning of now i have choices is a professional volley in the set to be wants cellos play too loud is there any truth well if you if you ask my pianists i would say greenoak record of this is hell agree with you. Not that they play. But we have
a kind of an Inferiority Complex about being not as loud as the violin especially when were compared with the violin we feel we have to kind. Now you have also recently become a conductor and youve worked under the worlds great conductors on the Battle Of The Worlds Greats and doctor so whats it been like having to have an maybe fifty musicians as opposed to one yourself i mean it must be a very different discipline its a great feeling its great facing the musicians not having the behind you when you play because as a soloist of the chelas especially you dont see almost anybody and even. If you turn your your projection is always towards the audience and as a conductor your. Face is playing at you people playing towards you through you and the audience is behind you so its a completely different kind of communication with musicians and its a very very nice feeling well be bold in the future. Then good luck with that i just bow to say the cd but this is this is it is available on
cd but this is a wonderful vinyl copy and good luck with everything you do going to look after those musicians in bolivia thanks. Time now for some food for thought yes Its That Man Again our europe correspondent whos got his mixing bowl out this week to give us the Lowdown On French Politics and French Culture and at the same time baking a humble baguette what would the e. U. Be without its. Biggest members doing without some pain the eiffel tower the thirty five all workweek and labor strikes the french still see themselves as. And they may have a point when it comes to white bread. The baguette is undeniably. The longest president my car hopes to be the new master
chef. In europes kitchen hes no man of half baked ideas he has a recipe for the entire you he wants a common euro zone budget a new Finance Minister a european harmony share Defense Budget a European Secret Service academy an e. U. Wide Asylum Agency where you can eventually. Be fined by french law the pick at it and its your its made from just four ingredients. Water. And plain flour. The water should be nuked warm just like the tap at reception his ideas have gotten from other European Countries not to mention some of his own citizens. With so much resistance at home my course looking to his neighbors especially germany swapping recipes
a treaty for an even closer friendship with Anglo American all sixteen pages all on paper a piece of cake isnt it. To reform a whole continent you need an iron grip. But this recipe requires a soft touch dont need the bread just mix the ingredients and transfer the dough to a lightly or bowl. Ready to bake. Know the dough best to rise first for. One hour stretch and fold it in the process like this. And then leave it in the fridge for forty eight. For the french back at the famous thirty five week is. Only. Symbolic. Now for the part that really requires a steady hand the shaping of the pickets. Dont apply too much pressure just like
with your e. U. Partners. Oh and if. I recall you yeah i did finally score the butt gets short and sweet man oh its like bringing the french budget back in line with the rules set by the e. U. And long cuts. Right. In the neck when you can just score one or two but gets when it comes to slashing the budget france has its work cut out. For it all can the president take the heat stick the dough in the oven for twenty minutes at Two Hundred Fifty degrees celsius. And. Get by the way my call once you go to recognize the park get as
a world cultural treasure. Fitting tribute to love conde nast young. And old instructions for how to make the humble by getting all the other. Is on our website at the w. Dot com slash culture now heres a bit of up cycling for you if you dont know what to do with their old denim jeans you could get them turned into you just have to give them to british artist in barry who makes collages. Out of to any my hear you cry i think these will surprise you. This gigantic pile of jeans is artist in barrys Color Palette barry has at least two thousand pairs of jeans here in his london studio and he needs them all hes constantly searching for just the right
shade of blue so now i can artists. Micks. Basically going to go find. A walk around. An hour free hours just fine but right pace. Berries large format photo realistic works look like drawings from a distance but up close you see that there are intricate denim collages. Once barry locates the right shade he cuts the fabric to just the right shape and size and fixes it in place with a special ed piece of. Piece by piece the picture grows to many layers to make it almost three dimensional. Theories of earliest collages were portraits of one Nine Hundred Fifty s. Actors who transforms denims image i want to make these portraits of his people made of what it is today. And it wasnt seen as
a high fashion. These days barrys inspiration comes from the city he lives in london. Hes even devoted an entire series to the laundromats he says are the hearts of many communities here its sad to see so many closing down so i want to document quite a few in london. You can take several weeks to create a collage like this one. Also creates huge Denim Installations in galleries around the world would sell for Tens Of Thousands of your arms but he also exhibits in other spaces like at Selfridges Department store. He wants his art like jeans to be for every. Extraordinary pictures obvious love to see them up close but thats it for this edition of office and culture up more of course on the website and all of facebook at v. W. Culture thanks for watching and well be back of the same time tomorrow i hope you join as until the. Enter the Conflict Zone confronting the powerful my guest this week here in thailand is martin helm a Deputy Leader of the conservative peoples Hockey Office tony despite calling for blacks to leave the country few insists fuz not a racist when you see that most good w. Will support by pressing on the fields we dont want to be faced in the stone for this conflict so folks can be certain it doubly. Triply. I was here when i arrived here i slept with six people in a room as a ninth in america it was hard i was fair. I even got white hair. That language no not this keeps me and they go but meekly to entrust the
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