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,
to a child in South Africa.
criança na África do Sul.
between those two children,
truths from that melody.
das mesmas verdades da canção.
music has this universality,
ter essa universalidade,
to each and every one of us,
com cada um de nós,
of holding up a mirror to us
na frente de um espelho
let's call them orchestras --
chamemos de orquestras,
of the community.
cada aspecto da comunidade.
forward to the future --
para o futuro, para daqui a 50 anos.
to go in the other direction for a minute,
de direção por um minuto,
no início dos anos 60, mais exatamente.
50 years into the past,
at all the great orchestras
do mundo daquela época, um retrato,
que tocavam nessas orquestras?
every orchestra on the planet
entre os gêneros.
between the sexes.
say, "Totally logical."
of the community?
in the great orchestras of our world?
nas grandes orquestras do mundo?
around the world all the time,
pelo mundo, o tempo todo,
musicians I've encountered
aren't millions upon millions
que não há milhões e milhões
of disability around the world.
de deficiência pelo mundo à fora.
that creates a space for them
que proporciona um espaço a eles,
with other great musicians?
com outros grandes músicos?
as you can probably tell,
estou numa pequena missão.
a personal root to it.
nasceu com paralisia cerebral.
was born with cerebral palsy.
her glorious existence,
e, mediante sua existência gloriosa,
a fully paid-up member
um membro inteiramente remunerado
disabled community.
dos portadores de deficiências.
at the Paralympics
penso como esse modelo é magnífico.
an incredible model that is.
comes to London next year,
do ano que vem, em Londres,
person anywhere on the planet
pessoa inteligente neste planeta,
in the validity of disabled sportspeople.
dos atletas deficientes.
where the hell is music in all this?
onde entra a música nisso tudo?
who are sports fans,
universal than sport.
universal do que o esporte.
Where is their voice?
stages in forming what will be
no início do que será,
national disabled orchestra.
de portadores de deficiência.
the British Paraorchestra,
on London next year
em Londres no próximo ano,
that is represented there,
nossa paraorquestra.
a multiplicity of paraorchestras
várias paraorquestras,
that the first four members
que os quatro primeiros membros
of which the number will grow and grow.
que vão se multiplicar mais e mais.
could even be as big as 50 musicians.
poderá ter até 50 músicos.
a little sonic adventure,
uma pequena aventura sonora,
whimsy, if you like,
improvisado, se quiserem,
the ink is still wet,
ainda em formação.
nunca é uma coisa fixa.
is never a fixed thing.
to share with you,
of British people.
folk music can tell you an awful lot
música folclórica pode dizer muita coisa,
from which it originates.
de seu país de origem.
are quietly melancholic.
brilliantly in "Twelfth Night,"
brilhantemente em "Noite de Reis",
is chock-full of "dying fall."
é repleta de "quedas".
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
na na ni, na ah ah ah ah ♪
and gentlemen, the chorus --
senhoras e senhores, e o coro:
da da da da, dying fall ...
em nossa cultura, senhoras e senhores.
in our culture, ladies and gentlemen.
no início deste projeto.
at the starting gates with this project.
e da comunidade global,
the global community
can be full steam ahead
esteja à todo vapor
that you can help us,
podem nos ajudar,
me enormous pride, pleasure and joy
orgulho, prazer e alegria de apresentar
with a short improvisation
mais melancólica, "Greensleeves,"
tune, "Greensleeves,"
of the British Paraorchestra.
da British Paraorchuestra.
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