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.
çalabilirsiniz.
between those two children,
farklılıklara rağmen,
truths from that melody.
çağrıştıracaktır.
music has this universality,
üzerine konuşalım,
to each and every one of us,
of holding up a mirror to us
anlatan bir şey.
let's call them orchestras --
orkestralar diyelim biz onlara --
of the community.
var olan durum kesinlikle bu değil.
forward to the future --
atacağız --
to go in the other direction for a minute,
rica edeceğim,
50 years into the past,
geri dönelim,
at all the great orchestras
orkestralarına --
every orchestra on the planet
yeryüzündeki her orkestra
between the sexes.
bir dengeye sahip.
say, "Totally logical."
dediğinizi duyar gibiyim.
of the community?
ne durumda?
in the great orchestras of our world?
edildiklerini düşünüyor muyuz?
around the world all the time,
orkestralarla çalıştım,
musicians I've encountered
aren't millions upon millions
müzisyen arasında,
of disability around the world.
that creates a space for them
bilgi alışverişi yapabilecekleri,
with other great musicians?
as you can probably tell,
küçük bir şeyin peşinde,
a personal root to it.
olabilir.
was born with cerebral palsy.
doğuştan beyin felçliydi.
her glorious existence,
hâlâ hayatta.
a fully paid-up member
engelli topluluğunun,
disabled community.
at the Paralympics
izlerken ve bunun
an incredible model that is.
düşünürken buldum.
comes to London next year,
Londra'ya geldiğinde,
person anywhere on the planet
engelli sporculuğun varlığına inanmayan,
in the validity of disabled sportspeople.
where the hell is music in all this?
bu kadar şey arasında müzik nerede?
who are sports fans,
söylemeliyim ki,
universal than sport.
Where is their voice?
Seslerini kim duyuracak?
stages in forming what will be
ulusal engelli orkestrası olacak
national disabled orchestra.
the British Paraorchestra,
on London next year
Londra'da olacak,
that is represented there,
a multiplicity of paraorchestras
ve boyutlarda
that the first four members
of which the number will grow and grow.
müzisyen.
could even be as big as 50 musicians.
50 kişilik bir müzisyen grubuna dönüşür.
a little sonic adventure,
whimsy, if you like,
the ink is still wet,
is never a fixed thing.
sabit bir şey olamaz.
to share with you,
bir şey yaptık,
of British people.
folk music can tell you an awful lot
halk müziği size, bir ülkenin kültürel
from which it originates.
pek çok harika şey anlatabilir.
are quietly melancholic.
karamsar insanlarız.
brilliantly in "Twelfth Night,"
zekice ortaya koyduğu gibi,
is chock-full of "dying fall."
"ölümcül çöküş" ile dolu.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
na na nee, na ah ah ah ah.
and gentlemen, the chorus --
baylar, hep beraber --
da da da da, dying fall ...
da da da da, dying fall ...
in our culture, ladies and gentlemen.
melodik Viyagra'ya ihtiyacımız var.
at the starting gates with this project.
the global community
ihtiyacımız var
can be full steam ahead
that you can help us,
bir yol varsa,
me enormous pride, pleasure and joy
büyük gurur ve zevk aldığım,
with a short improvisation
tune, "Greensleeves,"
of the British Paraorchestra.
karşınızda.
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