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,
la plus universelle,
dialecte ou langue.
à un enfant en Chine
to a child in South Africa.
à un enfant en Afrique du Sud.
between those two children,
entre ces deux enfants,
truths from that melody.
de cette mélodie.
music has this universality,
la musique a cette universalité,
to each and every one of us,
chacun d'entre nous,
of holding up a mirror to us
face à un miroir
ou de ce qu'on est.
cette force universelle,
let's call them orchestras --
appelons-les orchestres —
of the community.
de la communauté.
forward to the future --
observons ce qui se passera dans 50 ans.
to go in the other direction for a minute,
une minute d'aller dans l'autre sens,
50 years into the past,
at all the great orchestras
les grands orchestres
trouver dans ces orchestres ?
en 2011,
every orchestra on the planet
de la planète
between the sexes.
entre les sexes.
say, "Totally logical."
« Tout à fait logique. »
of the community?
de la population ?
grands orchestres du monde ?
in the great orchestras of our world?
en tant que chef d'orchestre,
around the world all the time,
orchestres partout dans le monde,
les doigts d'une seule main
musicians I've encountered
que j'ai vus
aren't millions upon millions
des millions et des millions
of disability around the world.
partout dans le monde.
that creates a space for them
qui leur offre un espace
with other great musicians?
d'autres grands musiciens ?
comme vous l'aurez deviné,
as you can probably tell,
a personal root to it.
est d'origine personnelle.
was born with cerebral palsy.
est née avec une paralysie cérébrale.
her glorious existence,
sa superbe existence,
a fully paid-up member
membre à part entière
disabled community.
communauté des personnes handicapées.
les Jeux paralympiques
at the Paralympics
an incredible model that is.
c'est un modèle incroyable.
comes to London next year,
seront à Londres l'année prochaine,
person anywhere on the planet
n'importe où dans le monde
in the validity of disabled sportspeople.
des sportifs handicapés.
where the hell is music in all this?
où diable est la musique dans tout ça ?
les fans de sport parmi vous,
who are sports fans,
universal than sport.
que le sport.
Where is their voice?
Où est leur voix ?
stages in forming what will be
de la formation de ce qui sera
national disabled orchestra.
britannique de personnes handicapées.
the British Paraorchestra,
le Paraorchestre Britannique,
on London next year
tourné vers Londres l'année prochaine
Jeux paralympiques,
that is represented there,
« Voici notre paraorchestre,
a multiplicity of paraorchestras
une multiplicité de paraorchestres
très spécial pour moi
that the first four members
les quatre premiers membres
of which the number will grow and grow.
dont le nombre augmentera de plus en plus.
could even be as big as 50 musicians.
cela atteigne 50 musiciens.
a little sonic adventure,
une petite aventure sonore,
whimsy, if you like,
en quelque sorte,
the ink is still wet,
l'encre n'a pas encore séché,
is never a fixed thing.
n'est jamais définie.
to share with you,
of British people.
dans notre culture.
la musique folklorique peut nous apprendre
folk music can tell you an awful lot
from which it originates.
dont elle provient.
are quietly melancholic.
nous sommes silencieusement mélancoliques.
brilliantly in "Twelfth Night,"
dans « La Nuit des rois »,
une cadence qui va decrescendo.
is chock-full of "dying fall."
est remplie de nuances sur decrescendo.
decrescendo...
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
and gentlemen, the chorus --
et messieurs, le refrain
da da da da, dying fall ...
da da da da, decrescendo...
de Viagra mélodique, mesdames, messieurs.
in our culture, ladies and gentlemen.
at the starting gates with this project.
au commencement de ce projet.
the global community
de la communauté internationale
can be full steam ahead
à plein régime
that you can help us,
d'une quelconque façon,
contactez-nous.
me enormous pride, pleasure and joy
avec grande fierté, plaisir et joie
with a short improvisation
une courte improvisation
tune, "Greensleeves,"
les plus mélancoliques, « Greensleeves »,
of the British Paraorchestra.
du Paraorchestre Britannique.
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