i would go even further, the danger is not that an orchestra becomes a museum, the danger is that an orchestra dies out like the dinosaur. really? yes, because they must reform, they must go with the age, they must recognise what the new generations need. and the danger is that orchestras play a limited repertoire the last maybe 200 years, the music of the last 200 years. now what will happen in 500 years, will we still listen to those 200 years? i don t think so. don t you, really? no, i think we have to reform. the idea that you mentioned earlier, playing beethoven s ninth, i mean, to take 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.
really? yes, because they must reform, they must go with the age, they must recognise what the new generations need. and the danger is that orchestras play a limited repertoire the last maybe 200 years, the music of the last 200 years. now what will happen in 500 years, will we still listen to those 200 years? i don t think so. don t you, really? no, i think we have to reform. the idea that you mentioned earlier, playing beethoven s ninth, i mean, to take 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
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
because despite all we have seen, he said the worst could be yet to come. translation: the massacre l in our city of bucha is only one, unfortunately, only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for the past 41 days. there are many more cities, similar places where the world has yet to learn the full truth. a member of the parliament. do you think president zelensky s words will actually make a difference? i do hope so. i hope that the world both realise that we have to be on the right side of history and history is being made today. it is notjust history is being made today. it is not just a war history is being made today. it is notjust a war between russia and ukraine, it is the war of russia against the whole of human civilisation. they are committing notjust civilisation. they are committing
or decrease, but what we re fighting here is where they occur will change, so some areas in particular, higher latitudes, including new york and boston and even western europe, will experience relatively more hurricanes than the tropics. the oint hurricanes than the tropics. the point being. hurricanes than the tropics. the point being, these are places that are in some cases for the densely populated, so you are by definition talking about more people being impacted? talking about more people being imacted? ~ , ., , impacted? absolutely, and it is worth saying impacted? absolutely, and it is worth saying we impacted? absolutely, and it is worth saying we believe - impacted? absolutely, and it is worth saying we believe that i worth saying we believe that hurricanes have not existed over this wide range of latitudes at any point in the last 3 million years, which is certainly beyond human civilisation, so regions that have not experienced hurricanes at all and have not developed