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,
limbaj pe care îl avem,
decât orice dialect sau limbă.
unui copil din China
to a child in South Africa.
unui copil din Africa de Sud.
between those two children,
dintre cei doi copii,
truths from that melody.
aceleași adevăruri din acea melodie.
music has this universality,
muzica are această universalitate,
to each and every one of us,
of holding up a mirror to us
să țină o oglindă îndreptată spre noi
let's call them orchestras --
să le numim orchestre -
of the community.
fiecare aspect al comunității.
forward to the future --
am privit nerăbdători viitorul -
to go in the other direction for a minute,
să mergeți un pic în cealaltă direcție,
50 years into the past,
50 de ani în trecut,
at all the great orchestras
every orchestra on the planet
between the sexes.
fantastic și sănătos între sexe.
say, "Totally logical."
„Perfect logic.”
of the community?
al comunității?
in the great orchestras of our world?
în marile orchestre ale lumii noastre?
around the world all the time,
din toată lumea tot timpul,
musicians I've encountered
aren't millions upon millions
milioane și milioane
of disability around the world.
extraordinar de talentați în lume.
that creates a space for them
care creează un spațiu pentru ei
with other great musicians?
cu alți mari muzicieni?
as you can probably tell,
cum probabil ați observat,
a personal root to it.
are o rădăcină personală.
was born with cerebral palsy.
s-a născut cu paralizie cerebrală.
her glorious existence,
și în glorioasa ei existență,
a fully paid-up member
membru cu drepturi depline
disabled community.
comunități a invalizilor.
at the Paralympics
an incredible model that is.
comes to London next year,
de la Londra de anul viitor,
person anywhere on the planet
nicăieri pe planetă
in the validity of disabled sportspeople.
sportivilor invalizi.
where the hell is music in all this?
unde naiba este muzica în toate astea?
who are sports fans,
fani ai sporturilor,
universal than sport.
decât sportul.
Where is their voice?
Unde este vocea lor?
stages in forming what will be
suntem la începuturile formării
national disabled orchestra.
a invalizilor.
the British Paraorchestra,
on London next year
that is represented there,
„Aceasta este paraorchestra noastră.
a multiplicity of paraorchestras
mai multe paraorchestre
that the first four members
când primii noștri patru membri
of which the number will grow and grow.
al căror număr va continua să crească.
could even be as big as 50 musicians.
să ajungă chiar la 50 de muzicieni.
a little sonic adventure,
whimsy, if you like,
the ink is still wet,
încă nu s-a uscat cerneala,
is never a fixed thing.
nu e niciodată fixă.
to share with you,
of British people.
în cultura noastră.
folk music can tell you an awful lot
muzica folk vă poate spune foarte mult
from which it originates.
al țării din care provine.
are quietly melancholic.
liniștitor de melancolici.
brilliantly in "Twelfth Night,"
în „A douăsprezecea noapte,”
is chock-full of "dying fall."
este plină de „cadență descendentă”.
cadență descendentă.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
na na ni, na ah ah ah ah.
and gentlemen, the chorus --
doamnelor și domnilor, corul -
da da da da, dying fall ...
da da da, cadență descendentă...
in our culture, ladies and gentlemen.
melodică, doamnelor și domnilor.
at the starting gates with this project.
acestui proiect.
the global community
de comunitatea globală,
can be full steam ahead
să poată fi funcțională
that you can help us,
în vreun fel,
me enormous pride, pleasure and joy
am enorma mândrie, plăcere și bucurie,
with a short improvisation
tune, "Greensleeves,"
„Greensleeves,”
of the British Paraorchestra.
ai Paraorchestrei britanice.
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