Welcome to explorations in music a production of k l w in cooperation with San Francisco Performances the Alexander string quartet and Dr Robert Greenberg I m your host David Latulippe. This season we peel back the layers of Dmitri Shostakovich. Today a look at the fabric that makes Russia Russia. While Peter the Great imposed elements of European culture in Russia the spiritual and cultural fabric of the people remained untouched as a result we have Russia which is neither Europe or Asia but a very special very peculiar part of the world. Dr Robert Greenberg holds a Ph d. In music composition from the University of California at Berkeley and since 1989 has been San Francisco Performances music historian in residence he has performed taught and lectured extensively in North America and Europe. The Alexander string quartet is among the world s premier ensembles maintaining a busy international touring in teaching schedule and recording for their own label foghorn classics. Dmitri Shost
Who are trying to fix some of the world s most difficult problems but today we re actually meeting a cartoon character that s being used in Mexico to try to help children who ve suffered from abuse and neglect and violence so we ve been able to Mexico how does this all work so this is a animated cartoon character which is operated by a psychologist so the child sits in a room and talks to the character on the screen actually being observed by a psychologist who is trying to get to the bottom of their deep that problems Ok and the children actually think that they re talking directly to a to a cartoony and so they think it s being controlled by someone but they think that having this private conversation will meet the cartoon and the people who came up with it on World x. That s coming up after the b.b.c. News Hello I m Gerri Smith with the b.b.c. News the Israeli government has decided to remove controversial metal detectors from a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem the Temple Mount or