A 1st visit to the continent of the music they study i love the way. European people just. Heard from. Various theyre very serious about the music and the beauty of music African Music is. Played its. Rhythm with Classical Music is like you have to be in control of the piece the experience presses your motions even more when youre playing and when youre playing a slow piece. You said for no reason or whatever. And then you play this little piece and slopes. So that it really brings out that frustration. For me. Before the concert its rehearsals. The group also plays and sings south african pieces. Concert is dedicated to their
countrys triumph over apartheid. So. On a visit to south africa the oldest could go on a book alani takes us to his home at the edge of the town of freedom for. He started playing his instrument just 4 years ago thanks to teachers from the groups Outreach Program who regularly visit his community. Now the 16 year old practices his instrument 4 hours a day. He liv
Due to lung cancer. Hi there and a warm welcome to our arts and culture news and before we start with a fantastic news ical project from south africa lets have a quick look at what else is coming up on todays program. Its flower time in the belgian capital brussels and the city hall at the center. And if you bend it like beckham well youre sure to like the latest film from british director chad out blinded by the light blends a u. K. Coming of age story with the music. Well it was in 1998 that Peter Guy And American Double Bass Player who had moved to
south africa started the Ball Toby Last String project it began with 18 kids from the black townships around. And since then hundreds of children from disadvantaged backgrounds have learned to play a String Instrument Well Today the orchestra travels the world and we took in their performance at the right angle festival in western germany. Far away from home south africas bunch of String Orchestra plays a piece of music called the nelson.
a lot of money that comes from donations from here in europe now the concert that we saw in the report was dedicated to nelson mandela who of course led south africa out of apartheid back in 1904 with this program or a program like this have been possible without him well the sort of answer is probably not apartheid regime really did the bare minimum to provide education for black students certainly they didn t have programs teaching people to played cello . of course the kids in this program that we re seeing were born after apartheid ended in 1904 they re part of the so-called born free generation and the south africa they re coming and unfortunately is not the rainbow nation that nelson mandela spoke of it s still very unequal a lot of racial segregation the economic elites the people whose kids are the majority of those learning to play these instruments are still white so there s a lot of work to be done programs like this are part of the solution but there are unfortunately still
fees about $60.00 euros a year which is a lot of money for some of them and there s also a lot of money that comes from donations from here in europe now the concert that we saw in the report was dedicated to nelson mandela who of course led south africa out of apartheid back in 1994 with this program or a program like this have been possible without him well the sort of answer is probably not the apartheid regime really did the bare minimum to provide education for black students certainly they didn t have programs teaching people to played cello of course the kids in this program that we re seeing were born after apartheid ended in 1904 they re part of the so-called born free generation and the south africa they re coming and syria unfortunately is not the rainbow nation that nelson mandela spoke of it s still very unequal a lot of racial segregation the economic elites the people whose kids are the majority of those learning to play these instruments are still white so there s a lot