are you saying maybe we re wrong? if you sit in your car and you open the radio, what do you hear? you hear a bit of beethoven, you hear a bit of bruckner, and you hear heavy metal and you hear indian ragas and you hear rap songs. it s a mix. this is our language today, the mix, whatever comes to you from the car radio. this is the musical language of the present generation. if a symphony orchestra only provides a small segment of that, it will not survive. it has to open the repertoire into many directions, and this is what we try to do step by step. for example, we have a group in our orchestra who play baroque music on original instruments. we have another group who play transylvanian folk music,
home. let s finish with something else, a little bit of beauty. in kyiv today, with the russians trying to advance into that city, the musicians of kyiv s classic symphony orchestra decided to play. 20 members gathered in kyiv s independent square to sound ukraine s national anthem and beethoven s ode to joy. their conductor called the concert a call for peace. our thanks to richard engel and his team for getting us that
as just one of the best known pieces of music in the world, everybody really thinks of it as completely timeless, that as long as there is human civilisation, there will be beethoven, there will be bach, there will be mozart. are you saying maybe we re wrong? if you sit in your car and you open the radio, what do you hear? you hear a bit of beethoven, you hear a bit of bruckner, and you hear heavy metal and you hear indian ragas and you hear rap songs. it s a mix. this is our language today, the mix, whatever comes to you from the car radio. this is the musical language of the present generation. if a symphony orchestra only provides a small segment of that, it will not survive. it has to open the repertoire into many directions, and this is what we try
baritone, vlad bovsky. from ukraine, his family still there. he tells his he s finding new strength and solidarity in that song. it was so hard to not cry, because i understand that it s, like, the whole world with us. they support us. i want to say thank you and i really appreciate everyone. reporter: in between performances, facetiming with his mother back in ukraine, telling her americans are with us. then, beethoven s ode to joy. a performance for the people of ukraine. with vlad and the people of ukraine. good night.
bolivia with european funding to help found the orchestra since then he s returned regularly as a soloist and mentor. his enthusiasm there has been infectious whether it s 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 isn t out quite yet but will be in a couple of days that s because i ve got a copy because i ve got the man himself with me his name broke welcome to the program you recorded these offices in baldwin beethoven s 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