Two or three young aspiring musicians. Dont do it a little Bit. If you do it, do it with conviction. Yes. Again. Preparing them for auditions to become a member in our orchestra. The one thing that sets us apart from others, i think, is our history. The sound of the Vienna Philharmonic is special because of all our great composers who shaped our sounds. We had members who played in the first performance of beethovens ninth symphony conducted by beethoven. So these people brought the knowledge how beethoven wanted his music to be played into our orchestras. Now this happens from beethoven now this happens from beethoven to brahms, bruckner, to brahms, bruckner, mahler, richard strauss, mahler, richard strauss, our collective memory. John williams. John williams. And i think that shaped and i think that shaped our collective memory. Today we have three of our academists here to get a masterclass. Two violinists, one flute player. Our academy is a Training Programme for young musicians to
In the lebanese capital, beirut. These are the latest pictures we can bring you showing a large explosion following one of those strikes. Earlier on saturday, the israeli military had issued orders to residents of specific buildings in southern beirut to evacuate. We don t yet know what was hit in the strikes but israeli forces have bombed areas reported to be hezbollah strongholds. They have also clashed with hezbollah fighters in lebanon s southern border region. The israeli military says it has killed 440 hezbollah fighters since the start of the ground invasion. Meanwhile, hezbollah has fired rockets into northern israel, with reports that residential buildings were hit. Also on saturday, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed iran s missile attack on his country earlier this week saying, israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to these attacks, and we will do so. Shortly after that blast took place in beirut, i spoke to our correspondent t
continue across eastern parts of scotland in the north east of england and those temperatures only around 10 13. sophie. thanks, darren. newsnightjust getting newsnight just getting under way newsnightjust getting under way but now it s time for the news where you are. good night. wars have laws. as a proscribed terror group, hamas isn t following them. is israel? after a second attack on the jabalia refugee camp, mark s here to look at whether israel s aerial bombardment could breach international humanitarian law. also tonight, medecins sans frontieres are here. they ve been working in gaza for around 15 years and have 300 workers on the ground. plus, uk academics demand more freedom to express their opinions on social media when it comes to events unfolding in the middle east. we ll discuss the row between the science secretary and uk research and innovation, the body responsible for funding scientific research. and this. classic music plays. the orchestra whose musicians
yeah, good evening. i think so. i think projects like ours, the west eastern divan orchestra orchestra, the academy in berlin, these projects are extremely important, especially in a situation of crisis like this one. we see a lot of polarisation, a lot of division around. almost we are the only ones that promote this idea of cooperation and mutual understanding that i think is very important. marion millican i wonder if you can describe how music like this and this orchestra brings people from different backgrounds together. the orchestra started after daniel and my late orchestra started after daniel and my late husband edward discovered, became my late husband edward discovered, became good friends and they broke barriers became good friends and they broke barriers and they extended it to their barriers and they extended it to their people. and daniel made an orchestra their people. and daniel made an orchestra out of it. the idea of the orchestra orchestra out
Giving vr a good kicking. And, going up . Err, sideways. This month marks the 25th Anniversary of the Self Checkout. The first one was installed in new york on august five, 1992, in price chopper. So, what does its inventor, doctor howard schneider, remember of it all . I hadnt gone shopping much, so i went to the supermarket near my house with a stopwatch, and i started looking at people checking out, and my stopwatch went click, click it was a mechanical one. And, you know, i said well, what a great environment. This is so messy. Good luck with any machine doing it. And i said, this would be a great problem to solve. And then i started building a machine in my garage. I actually spent every cent i had on parts and i got the first machines built. See, i love self service checkouts, but then im a control freak, but i do believe they save you time. Until they go wrong, at which point they become a right pain in the bagging area. The technology in the machines now is less than it was 25