Charles Hazlewood + British Paraorchestra: The debut of the British Paraorchestra
The British Paraorchestra is the first orchestra for world-class musicians of disability Full bioCharles Hazlewood - Conductor
Charles Hazlewood dusts off and invigorates classical music, adding a youthful energy and modern twists to centuries-old masterworks. At TEDGlobal, he conducts the Scottish Ensemble. Full bio
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language that we have,
que tenemos,
para un niño en China
to a child in South Africa.
para un niño en Sudáfrica.
between those two children,
entre esos dos niños,
truths from that melody.
verdades de esa melodía.
music has this universality,
la música tiene esta universalidad,
to each and every one of us,
y cada uno de nosotros,
of holding up a mirror to us
de sostenernos un espejo
let's call them orchestras --
de músicos, llamémoslos orquestas,
of the community.
de la diversidad de la comunidad.
forward to the future --
hemos estado esperando el futuro,
to go in the other direction for a minute,
en la otra dirección por un minuto,
50 years into the past,
50 años en el pasado,
at all the great orchestras
a todas las grandes orquestas
every orchestra on the planet
between the sexes.
y saludable entre los sexos.
say, "Totally logical."
"Totalmente lógico".
of the community?
de la comunidad?
in the great orchestras of our world?
en las grandes orquestas de nuestro mundo?
puedo decirles que
around the world all the time,
de todo el mundo todo el tiempo,
con los dedos de la mano
musicians I've encountered
con los que me he encontrado
aren't millions upon millions
no haya millones y millones
of disability around the world.
dotados con discapacidad en todo el mundo.
that creates a space for them
que crea un espacio para ellos
with other great musicians?
con otros grandes músicos?
as you can probably tell,
como podrán deducir,
a personal root to it.
was born with cerebral palsy.
la más joven nació con parálisis cerebral.
her glorious existence,
y a través de su gloriosa existencia,
a fully paid-up member
en un miembro completamente agradecido
disabled community.
maravillosa comunidad de discapacitados.
at the Paralympics
los Juegos Paralímpicos
an incredible model that is.
cinco décadas, de hecho,
comes to London next year,
a Londres el próximo año,
person anywhere on the planet
en ninguna parte del planeta
in the validity of disabled sportspeople.
de los deportistas discapacitados.
en la que estar!
where the hell is music in all this?
está la música en todo esto?
who are sports fans,
fanáticos de los deportes,
universal than sport.
mucho más universal que el deporte.
Where is their voice?
¿Dónde está su voz?
stages in forming what will be
en los inicios para formar lo que será
national disabled orchestra.
de discapacitados de Gran Bretaña.
the British Paraorchestra,
on London next year
en Londres el próximo año
en los Juegos Paralímpicos,
that is represented there,
representados allí,
"Aquí está nuestra paraorquesta,
a multiplicity of paraorchestras
una multiplicidad de paraorquestas
that the first four members
que los primeros cuatro miembros
of which the number will grow and grow.
de los que su número crecerá y crecerá.
could even be as big as 50 musicians.
al final incluso tenga 50 músicos.
una pequeña aventura sónica,
a little sonic adventure,
whimsy, if you like,
de improvisación, si quieren,
la tinta todavía está húmeda,
the ink is still wet,
is never a fixed thing.
nunca es algo fijo.
to share with you,
compartir con Uds.,
of British people.
por los británicos.
en nuestra cultura.
folk music can tell you an awful lot
la música folk puede decir muchísimo
from which it originates.
del país de donde proviene.
are quietly melancholic.
somos calladamente melancólicos.
brilliantly in "Twelfth Night,"
tan brillantemente en "Twelfth Night"
"una caída moribunda".
is chock-full of "dying fall."
está repleta de "cayendo muerta".
cayendo muerta.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
and gentlemen, the chorus --
damas y caballeros, el estribillo:
da da da da, dying fall ...
cayendo muerta...
melódico en nuestra cultura
in our culture, ladies and gentlemen.
at the starting gates with this project.
de salida con este proyecto.
the global community
necesitamos la comunidad global
can be full steam ahead
pueda estar a toda marcha
that you can help us,
de que puedan ayudarnos,
pónganse en contacto.
me enormous pride, pleasure and joy
tengo el orgullo, placer y alegría
with a short improvisation
tune, "Greensleeves,"
más melancólica, "Greensleeves"
of the British Paraorchestra.
de la Paraorquesta Británica.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
British Paraorchestra - Contemporary music ensembleThe British Paraorchestra is the first orchestra for world-class musicians of disability
Why you should listen
Charles Hazlewood is a conductor founded the British Parorchestra to give musicians of disability a platform to collaborate and perform.
Credits for the debut British Paraorchestra performance: Dhanoday Srivastava (Baluji), James Risdon, Clarence Adoo, Lyn Levett. Alison Roberts tell a few of their stories in her Evening Standard piece on the Paraorchestra:
Clarence Adoo, for example, who used to play trumpet with Courtney Pine, suffered a devastating car accident in 1995 and is now paralysed from the shoulders down. He plays music on a laptop, using a specially designed blow tube as a computer mouse. Adoo says he'd rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.
Lyn Levett has severe cerebral palsy and can only communicate by pressing an iPad with her nose, yet makes the "most dizzyingly brilliant electronic music", says Hazlewood. Levett herself, through her iPad, tells us that when she's creating music, it feels as though she's in a cockpit, flying a plane. Sitar player and composer Baluji Shrivastav has been blind since the age of eight months, and Lloyd Coleman is both deaf and sight-impaired. All four make their living solely from music.
British Paraorchestra | Speaker | TED.com
Charles Hazlewood - Conductor
Charles Hazlewood dusts off and invigorates classical music, adding a youthful energy and modern twists to centuries-old masterworks. At TEDGlobal, he conducts the Scottish Ensemble.
Why you should listen
Charles Hazlewood's fresh presentations of classical music shake up the traditional settings of the form -- in one performance he’ll engage in a conversation with the audience, while in another he’ll blend film or sculpture into a piece -- but his goal is always the same: exposing the deep, always-modern joy of the classics. He's a familiar face on British TV, notably in the 2009 series The Birth of British Music on BBC2. He conducts the BBC Orchestras and guest-conducts orchestras around the world.
Together with Mark Dornford-May, he founded a lyric-theatre company in South Africa called Dimpho Di Kopane (which means "combined talents") after auditioning in the townships and villages of South Africa. Of the 40 members, only three had professional training. They debuted with Bizet's Carmen, which was later transposed into a movie version called U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, spoken and sung in Xhosa, that was honored at the Berlin Flim Festival. He regularly involves children in his projects and curates his own music festival, Play the Field, on his farm in Somerset. His latest project: the ParaOrchestra.
He says: "I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' -- if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart."
Charles Hazlewood | Speaker | TED.com