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Wechat: CS1_SOLAIRE99 Whatsapp: +66634622578 7 00:04:37,458 --> 00:04:38,874 Mr. Ma maintains balance 8 00:04:38,875 --> 00:04:40,834 between engagement and solos... 9 00:04:44,875 --> 00:04:46,999 He recorded more than 90 albums, 10 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,834 including more than 17 Grammy Award Winners. 11 00:04:53,834 --> 00:04:55,834 ... study at Juilliard School... 12 00:04:59,417 --> 00:05:01,041 I didn't go in there... 13 00:05:03,208 --> 00:05:05,457 ... Presidential Committee on Arts and Humanities. 14 00:05:05,458 --> 00:05:07,374 After Mr. Ma's words tonight, 15 00:05:07,375 --> 00:05:09,708 we will have the opportunity to ask questions... 16 00:05:12,667 --> 00:05:16,583 So without further ado, please welcome Yo-Yo Ma 17 00:05:23,542 --> 00:05:24,708 Hi there 18 00:05:26,750 --> 00:05:27,834 Hi. 19 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:33,290 I will start with this. There are old jokes. 20 00:05:33,291 --> 00:05:37,749 A six-year-old boy tells his father, 21 00:05:37,750 --> 00:05:41,583 "When I grow up, I want to be a musician." 22 00:05:42,834 --> 00:05:44,499 And the father saw his son, 23 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,082 shaking his head sadly, and saying, 24 00:05:47,083 --> 00:05:48,833 "Sorry, kid, 25 00:05:48,834 --> 00:05:50,417 You can't do both." 26 00:06:05,959 --> 00:06:07,165 I thought when I was a kid, 27 00:06:07,166 --> 00:06:09,417 many things just happened. 28 00:06:10,834 --> 00:06:13,124 We came this year 29 00:06:13,125 --> 00:06:16,165 a seven year old boy, 30 00:06:16,166 --> 00:06:19,791 With the name Yo-Yo Ma, 31 00:06:19,792 --> 00:06:23,958 a Chinese cellist plays ancient French music 32 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:28,750 for new Americans compatriots 33 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:33,624 Being good at something can bring you really far 34 00:06:33,625 --> 00:06:35,499 for a long period of time, 35 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:36,624 and doesn't need much 36 00:06:36,625 --> 00:06:38,290 introspection right? 37 00:06:38,291 --> 00:06:40,624 Because... you are good at it 38 00:06:40,625 --> 00:06:41,792 and everyone says that to you. 39 00:06:50,375 --> 00:06:53,499 I would think that someone who has mastered his art So early in life, so complete, 40 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:55,958 will have that problem most wunderkinders have, 41 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:59,040 that is, how are you doing keep your interest 42 00:06:59,041 --> 00:07:02,792 That is part of my problem. When do you grow with something, 43 00:07:05,750 --> 00:07:09,582 You kind of don't make choices. 44 00:07:09,583 --> 00:07:12,333 I have never committed to be a musician 45 00:07:20,375 --> 00:07:24,874 46 00:07:24,875 --> 00:07:28,749 Do you know? I just did it I fell into it. 47 00:07:28,750 --> 00:07:31,332 I am interested in many things, but... 48 00:07:31,333 --> 00:07:35,707 I'm not so chasing after all that 49 00:07:35,708 --> 00:07:39,040 ♪ ♪ 50 00:07:39,041 --> 00:07:41,207 Leon Kirchner's words he when he was young, 51 00:07:41,208 --> 00:07:42,582 "You are a phenomenal musician, 52 00:07:42,583 --> 00:07:43,958 but not yet find your voice." 53 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:47,457 ♪ ♪ 54 00:07:47,458 --> 00:07:50,374 And this idea is stuck in my father's mind 55 00:07:50,375 --> 00:07:52,749 "What does that mean? How do you do it?" 56 00:07:52,750 --> 00:07:57,082 ♪ ♪ 57 00:07:57,083 --> 00:07:59,208 I think he started looking for answers 58 00:08:27,417 --> 00:08:31,040 I always try find out at a certain level 59 00:08:31,041 --> 00:08:34,082 who I am and how I fit in the world, 60 00:08:34,083 --> 00:08:36,541 which I think is something 61 00:08:36,542 --> 00:08:39,750 I shared with seven billion other people 62 00:08:41,667 --> 00:08:43,917 ♪ ♪ 63 00:08:49,125 --> 00:08:52,375 ♪ ♪ 64 00:08:55,792 --> 00:08:57,416 I called my mother in Damascus 65 00:08:57,417 --> 00:08:58,874 before... before you entered 66 00:08:58,875 --> 00:09:00,707 And he's like, "Oh, Kinan, Are you cleaning the place?" 67 00:09:00,708 --> 00:09:03,374 I'm like, "Yes, ma'am, it's okay." 68 00:09:03,375 --> 00:09:05,124 - He wants to make sure... - Mother is always mother. 69 00:09:05,125 --> 00:09:07,040 No, he wants to make sure that the CD isn't here, 70 00:09:07,041 --> 00:09:09,666 because, you know, they're there and, You know, it's like, "Is everything neat?" 71 00:09:09,667 --> 00:09:12,207 I said, "Yes, I have tried my best. This will be fine." 72 00:09:12,208 --> 00:09:13,959 ♪ ♪ So... 73 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,457 I mean, growing up in Damascus is very great. 74 00:09:22,458 --> 00:09:26,125 Just now, you know, a lot of friends and family. 75 00:09:29,166 --> 00:09:31,249 I don't think of myself as a fair person, 76 00:09:31,250 --> 00:09:33,291 You know, packing things and left, actually. 77 00:09:36,125 --> 00:09:39,458 I mean, I still have a little apartment back in Damascus 78 00:09:41,208 --> 00:09:44,291 And my parents are still there. 79 00:09:47,667 --> 00:09:49,834 I really miss him. I miss him 80 00:09:51,333 --> 00:09:54,457 Now I'm thinking a lot of like, "What is home? 81 00:09:54,458 --> 00:09:57,833 " Is that your friend? Is that where your family is? 82 00:09:57,834 --> 00:10:00,040 "What is the place? where are you raised 83 00:10:00,041 --> 00:10:02,874 or is that a place y... where do you want to die? 84 00:10:02,875 --> 00:10:04,624 I mean, you know, all... all these questions, 85 00:10:04,625 --> 00:10:06,290 and I think now I Be aware of that 86 00:10:06,291 --> 00:10:08,958 This is basically a place where you feel like contributing 87 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:10,458 without having to justify it. 88 00:10:11,875 --> 00:10:13,082 And this is your coffee, 89 00:10:13,083 --> 00:10:15,666 anyone who wants me small Arabic coffee 90 00:10:15,667 --> 00:10:20,542 ♪ ♪ 91 00:10:29,458 --> 00:10:34,208 I mean, since I left Syria, many things have changed. ♪ ♪ 92 00:10:37,333 --> 00:10:40,999 93 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,290 There are always fights in each of us 94 00:10:44,291 --> 00:10:48,874 between trusting strength of human spirit 95 00:10:48,875 --> 00:10:52,417 and fear of strength from human spirit. 96 00:10:57,834 --> 00:11:01,457 ♪ ♪ 97 00:11:01,458 --> 00:11:03,000 March 2011... 98 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:05,875 when Syrians revolution starts... 99 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:11,290 I find myself experiencing emotional which, so far, 100 00:11:11,291 --> 00:11:14,749 is more complex than... 101 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:16,666 from what I can express with my music 102 00:11:16,667 --> 00:11:19,124 So the music falls short, 103 00:11:19,125 --> 00:11:22,583 and I find myself not able to write any music ♪ ♪ 104 00:11:23,834 --> 00:11:27,416 Like, can a piece of music stop the bullet? 105 00:11:27,417 --> 00:11:29,999 Can it feed someone who is hungry? Of course not. 106 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,417 You question its role art at all. 107 00:11:34,458 --> 00:11:36,125 When I was a Harvard student, 108 00:11:52,708 --> 00:11:55,124 Leonard Bernstein comes to visit. 109 00:11:55,125 --> 00:11:59,290 110 00:11:59,291 --> 00:12:01,958 In his lecture, he is looking for 111 00:12:01,959 --> 00:12:04,332 for universal music language 112 00:12:04,333 --> 00:12:08,082 The idea jammed with me since then. 113 00:12:08,083 --> 00:12:12,124 What is the relevance? this musical linguistics? 114 00:12:12,125 --> 00:12:14,207 Can we bring us to an answer 115 00:12:14,208 --> 00:12:18,332 from Charles Ives & apos; unanswered question, "Where's music?" 116 00:12:18,333 --> 00:12:20,625 And even if it finally can... 117 00:12:21,834 --> 00:12:22,958 is that important? 118 00:12:22,959 --> 00:12:26,541 Fuck, the government is destroyed, 119 00:12:26,542 --> 00:12:29,417 and we look for music. 120 00:12:35,375 --> 00:12:37,666 From 35 years I'm married, 121 00:12:37,667 --> 00:12:42,667 I've gone for 22 of those years, going traveling. 122 00:12:45,583 --> 00:12:47,791 I used to throw up before each trip, 123 00:12:47,792 --> 00:12:51,999 You know, only... I will do it feel very uncomfortable and anxious, 124 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,582 and like, you know... 125 00:12:54,583 --> 00:12:56,834 It's like I will be very paralyzed. 126 00:13:00,333 --> 00:13:02,166 What is my role 127 00:13:04,417 --> 00:13:09,333 I'd better find a good reason to say, "Why do I do this?" 128 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:16,166 ♪ ♪ 129 00:13:18,208 --> 00:13:20,125 ♪ ♪ 130 00:13:22,291 --> 00:13:24,999 ♪ ♪ 131 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,750 ♪ ♪ 132 00:13:43,750 --> 00:13:45,040 Play... play songs 133 00:13:45,041 --> 00:13:46,834 Which song? Um... 134 00:13:48,667 --> 00:13:51,458 playing... "Iron Man." 135 00:13:58,875 --> 00:13:59,958 Let's be alone. 136 00:13:59,959 --> 00:14:03,250 My interest is kind of jumping out of the box... 137 00:14:04,750 --> 00:14:09,917 ... not only limit myself as a Musician or pipe player from China. 138 00:14:11,291 --> 00:14:13,708 Yes! 139 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:17,958 Yes! Woo-woo-woo-woo! 140 00:14:17,959 --> 00:14:19,290 Thank you, thank you. 141 00:14:19,291 --> 00:14:21,917 Hey wait. What are you doing? This... 142 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:26,416 I mean, Wu Man isn't supposed to be here 143 00:14:26,417 --> 00:14:28,833 He should be a music professor, right, 144 00:14:28,834 --> 00:14:31,250 at the Conservatory Center or somewhere in China. 145 00:14:56,208 --> 00:14:58,625 I remember 1966, 146 00:14:59,625 --> 00:15:01,458 start the Cultural Revolution. 147 00:15:04,458 --> 00:15:08,625 And actually my parents asked me to learn music... 148 00:15:09,458 --> 00:15:12,417 to escape the situation. 149 00:15:14,458 --> 00:15:19,791 Wu Man is in the first place student class 150 00:15:19,792 --> 00:15:24,833 Conservatory that goes back 151 00:15:24,834 --> 00:15:27,207 after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 152 00:15:27,208 --> 00:15:30,333 and he became an last night sensation 153 00:15:41,417 --> 00:15:44,667 We don't have information about western culture Right after the revolution... 154 00:15:48,125 --> 00:15:50,625 all of them destroyed, culturally, 155 00:15:51,959 --> 00:15:54,541 so we, I think, stand on the ruins, 156 00:15:54,542 --> 00:15:59,624 dreaming, "what's the next music?" 157 00:15:59,625 --> 00:16:04,333 Oh! They are surprised to open. 158 00:16:13,583 --> 00:16:16,542 Everything is very different. 159 00:16:21,375 --> 00:16:23,417 Isaac Stern gives a master class here, 160 00:16:27,583 --> 00:16:30,207 here at this stage 161 00:16:30,208 --> 00:16:33,333 This is like opening another idea. 162 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,916 This opens the door for me. 163 00:16:42,917 --> 00:16:45,541 164 00:16:45,542 --> 00:16:50,250 "American orchestra, that... is very interesting." 165 00:16:52,125 --> 00:16:56,165 I want to see what happens outside of China ♪ ♪ 166 00:16:56,166 --> 00:16:59,041 In the 80s, 167 00:17:05,667 --> 00:17:06,958 when I was asked in an interview 168 00:17:06,959 --> 00:17:09,541 about what next I the project might be... 169 00:17:09,542 --> 00:17:13,457 What's next for you 170 00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:14,750 I'm looking for something, anything, 171 00:17:16,250 --> 00:17:19,124 I say that I always... 172 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:22,165 I say, "I am always so fascinated by"... guess what... 173 00:17:22,166 --> 00:17:26,666 Bushmen from Kalahari Desert. 174 00:17:26,667 --> 00:17:29,959 Yes. 175 00:17:33,166 --> 00:17:34,250 ♪ ♪ 176 00:17:36,917 --> 00:17:39,249 I think he left because he wants... 177 00:17:39,250 --> 00:17:41,166 He wants to put some dirt in his bones 178 00:17:42,291 --> 00:17:44,791 He wants to get it down to the ground 179 00:17:44,792 --> 00:17:48,582 He wants something will change radically 180 00:17:48,583 --> 00:17:52,666 how to think about things. 181 00:17:52,667 --> 00:17:55,166 ♪ ♪ 182 00:17:56,583 --> 00:17:58,125 Shoot. 183 00:18:00,834 --> 00:18:02,249 184 00:18:02,250 --> 00:18:03,874 Where is "F"? 185 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:06,207 That's it. 186 00:18:06,208 --> 00:18:08,624 I will tell you one thing who lives with me 187 00:18:08,625 --> 00:18:11,499 which actually becomes the event 188 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:13,667 which opens all of this. 189 00:18:15,250 --> 00:18:17,542 They do trance dance... 190 00:18:20,834 --> 00:18:23,375 ... and I was invited to participate. 191 00:18:25,417 --> 00:18:26,833 They experience trance, 192 00:18:26,834 --> 00:18:30,041 and then they lay their hands people who need healing 193 00:18:33,583 --> 00:18:37,208 I ask women why they do their trans rituals... 194 00:18:39,291 --> 00:18:42,833 and they say The most obvious reason 195 00:18:42,834 --> 00:18:48,374 for music, for culture, for medicine, for religion. 196 00:18:48,375 --> 00:18:50,750 They say, "Because This gives us meaning." 197 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,207 So one day, I sat together Yo-Yo at the cafe 198 00:19:01,208 --> 00:19:02,749 and we are talking about 199 00:19:02,750 --> 00:19:04,333 where creativity comes from... 200 00:19:06,917 --> 00:19:09,083 ... from where new ideas come from. 201 00:19:10,542 --> 00:19:13,541 So he drew... on a napkin in the bar, 202 00:19:13,542 --> 00:19:15,499 He draws a circle intersecting. 203 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,791 And he said... then he was shaded crossing and said, 204 00:19:18,792 --> 00:19:20,499 "This, you know... this is culture, 205 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:23,457 " This is another culture, and at the intersection, 206 00:19:23,458 --> 00:19:25,833 That's where new will all appear. " 207 00:19:25,834 --> 00:19:29,125 ♪ ♪ 208 00:19:33,125 --> 00:19:34,916 The Silk Road Project 209 00:19:34,917 --> 00:19:36,916 we started as an idea... 210 00:19:36,917 --> 00:19:39,749 a group of musicians gathered 211 00:19:39,750 --> 00:19:41,959 and saw what might happen... 212 00:19:42,917 --> 00:19:44,416 You know, when a stranger meet. 213 00:19:44,417 --> 00:19:46,792 ♪ ♪ 214 00:19:50,583 --> 00:19:55,082 We go and explore from Venice to Istanbul, 215 00:19:55,083 --> 00:19:58,207 Central Asia, Mongolia, and China 216 00:19:58,208 --> 00:20:00,249 looking for extraordinary talent 217 00:20:00,250 --> 00:20:03,583 It's like Manhattan Music project. We invite around 60 218 00:20:04,417 --> 00:20:06,624 players and composers from land on the Silk Road, 219 00:20:06,625 --> 00:20:09,332 220 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:11,834 Meet in a kind of workshop. 221 00:20:13,125 --> 00:20:15,083 No one knows will happen. 222 00:20:16,458 --> 00:20:20,290 "Did Yo Yo leave? track or something? 223 00:20:20,291 --> 00:20:23,165 What... what is he? drink?" You know 224 00:20:23,166 --> 00:20:25,791 ♪ ♪ 225 00:20:25,792 --> 00:20:30,458 We gather in summer 2000 in Massachusetts. 226 00:20:34,458 --> 00:20:35,874 Frankly... 227 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:38,124 I'm afraid to die. 228 00:20:38,125 --> 00:20:40,667 ♪ ♪ 229 00:20:42,792 --> 00:20:44,500 Yo-Yo Ma of course, 230 00:20:45,708 --> 00:20:46,958 golden child 231 00:20:46,959 --> 00:20:48,249 He can touch anything and do anything, 232 00:20:48,250 --> 00:20:50,458 and everything... everything thinks it's good 233 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,165 But you can't expect 234 00:20:56,166 --> 00:21:00,958 someone from Africa or Chinese takes in... 235 00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:04,541 in the ins and outs of culture That is not their own. 236 00:21:04,542 --> 00:21:07,000 ♪ ♪ 237 00:21:08,458 --> 00:21:10,165 Many people think that... 238 00:21:10,166 --> 00:21:13,582 What we do is impure. 239 00:21:13,583 --> 00:21:16,457 This, uh... what's the name? 240 00:21:16,458 --> 00:21:18,332 Cultural tourism 241 00:21:18,333 --> 00:21:21,500 ♪ ♪ let's go Yes. 242 00:21:50,542 --> 00:21:53,708 ♪ ♪ 243 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,208 Beautiful. 244 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,207 This is a basic rhythm. 245 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:05,791 I mean, not the accent. 246 00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:08,040 Try... dut-dut, ba-ba-ba-ba. 247 00:22:08,041 --> 00:22:10,208 Ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba... 248 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:17,999 Kayhan, he is like that Famous figure in Iran, 249 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,041 and he is here very early 250 00:22:25,208 --> 00:22:26,582 That's amazing. Ah. 251 00:22:26,583 --> 00:22:28,582 So the nails come back and so right? 252 00:22:28,583 --> 00:22:31,083 Yes. Right, left, two rights. Doing it... 253 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:33,291 Oh 254 00:22:34,542 --> 00:22:36,917 ♪ ♪ Yes. 255 00:23:06,792 --> 00:23:08,917 ♪ ♪ 256 00:23:17,291 --> 00:23:21,499 My goal is to represent my culture 257 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,416 and its contribution 258 00:23:24,417 --> 00:23:26,958 that this culture is very old 259 00:23:26,959 --> 00:23:28,457 made for human life. 260 00:23:28,458 --> 00:23:31,166 ♪ ♪ 261 00:23:34,917 --> 00:23:38,416 If you come back, you know, at the beginning of the 20th century, 262 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:42,874 every Eastern culture that is so fascinated with the West... 263 00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:46,040 You know, technology, cars, 264 00:23:46,041 --> 00:23:47,625 and music of course. 265 00:23:49,667 --> 00:23:52,124 My instrument, kamancheh, 266 00:23:52,125 --> 00:23:55,958 it's not taught 267 00:23:55,959 --> 00:23:59,791 And I'm very lucky, because I have for professional music very early, 268 00:23:59,792 --> 00:24:03,041 so I have the opportunity to work with older generations. 269 00:24:05,583 --> 00:24:08,290 Kayhan, he brought you closer to horse 270 00:24:08,291 --> 00:24:10,457 or to a cow or to ... to the source, 271 00:24:10,458 --> 00:24:12,290 You know, that you forgot. 272 00:24:12,291 --> 00:24:14,999 ♪ ♪ 273 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,165 But Kayhan has a very tragic life 274 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:22,707 ♪ ♪ 275 00:24:22,708 --> 00:24:25,874 Revolution. 276 00:24:25,875 --> 00:24:27,208 Chaos. 277 00:24:29,458 --> 00:24:33,417 You realize that your life is not will be the same again 278 00:24:36,917 --> 00:24:38,542 I am 17 years old 279 00:24:39,542 --> 00:24:42,333 My parents decide that I have to go. 280 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:48,707 I just walk... walk, you know, get out... 281 00:24:48,708 --> 00:24:50,375 leave the country like that 282 00:24:53,041 --> 00:24:55,040 I... I work little by little 283 00:24:55,041 --> 00:24:58,000 in each country, type of agricultural work 284 00:24:59,708 --> 00:25:03,875 Turkey for nine months, and then Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy. 285 00:25:05,583 --> 00:25:07,582 Yes, I have a small backpack... 286 00:25:07,583 --> 00:25:09,875 and, um... I have kamancheh. 287 00:25:11,625 --> 00:25:13,457 That's all. Yes. 288 00:25:13,458 --> 00:25:16,750 ♪ ♪ 289 00:25:34,750 --> 00:25:36,083 When I go... 290 00:25:37,208 --> 00:25:40,583 meet many different world musicians... 291 00:25:41,417 --> 00:25:43,625 That was very interesting to me. 292 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,457 I always want to do something outside my culture 293 00:25:49,458 --> 00:25:50,791 I think that is... 294 00:25:50,792 --> 00:25:53,792 a very important change point in my career 295 00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:02,124 How are you doing, Kayhan? 296 00:26:02,125 --> 00:26:05,791 Uh, alright. We certainly need more practice time 297 00:26:05,792 --> 00:26:09,207 But... um, they are very good musicians, 298 00:26:09,208 --> 00:26:11,833 and they are many Better than yesterday, 299 00:26:11,834 --> 00:26:14,041 be... there is hope 300 00:26:16,083 --> 00:26:18,792 ♪ ♪ 301 00:26:26,625 --> 00:26:28,874 Tanglewood Workshop fantastic, 302 00:26:28,875 --> 00:26:32,207 because we don't speak of course the English is perfect 303 00:26:32,208 --> 00:26:34,332 or perfect or Persian perfect Chinese, 304 00:26:34,333 --> 00:26:38,207 but we speak perfectly music language 305 00:26:38,208 --> 00:26:42,166 ♪ ♪ 306 00:26:44,625 --> 00:26:46,791 Some projects, you know, 307 00:26:46,792 --> 00:26:49,124 In the end, is very beautiful. 308 00:26:49,125 --> 00:26:51,625 That is a great thing, but it's finished 309 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,249 This one... is different. 310 00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:58,834 ♪ ♪ 311 00:27:21,166 --> 00:27:23,332 You make a connection. 312 00:27:23,333 --> 00:27:24,707 You make a cultural relationship. 313 00:27:24,708 --> 00:27:28,040 You make connections for other humans. 314 00:27:28,041 --> 00:27:30,124 That is very valuable. 315 00:27:30,125 --> 00:27:31,791 We are faced with this decision, 316 00:27:31,792 --> 00:27:34,416 "Should we continue or this?" 317 00:27:34,417 --> 00:27:38,499 And we are very careful to try not only to say it 318 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:41,667 we must continue because we want it 319 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:44,874 Goodbye 320 00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:46,750 What is the reason? 321 00:27:50,250 --> 00:27:52,290 ... understandable So, of course, 322 00:27:52,291 --> 00:27:54,791 The main concern is human loss. 323 00:27:54,792 --> 00:27:56,249 I mean, do you know that there are 324 00:27:56,250 --> 00:27:57,416 many people in the building? 325 00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:58,791 Oh! One more just hit! 326 00:27:58,792 --> 00:28:00,624 Something else just hit. Very large plane 327 00:28:00,625 --> 00:28:02,332 just fly straight above my building, 328 00:28:02,333 --> 00:28:04,082 and there are already other collisions 329 00:28:04,083 --> 00:28:06,165 - can you see it? I can see it on this shot. - Yes. Gosh... 330 00:28:06,166 --> 00:28:08,541 Ellio Something else just... that looks more like 747. 331 00:28:08,542 --> 00:28:10,416 We only saw a plane around the building. 332 00:28:10,417 --> 00:28:13,291 ♪ ♪ 333 00:28:16,083 --> 00:28:22,708 I was in the hotel room at nine 11 o'clock in the morning. 334 00:28:27,250 --> 00:28:28,624 My wife calls me and says, 335 00:28:28,625 --> 00:28:32,458 "Turn on the television. Something is happening." 336 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:37,249 I see a large plane, like a jet, 337 00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:40,792 immediately go straight towards the World Trade Center... 338 00:28:43,125 --> 00:28:45,958 ♪ ♪ 339 00:28:45,959 --> 00:28:47,333 That's not real. 340 00:28:49,250 --> 00:28:51,583 You know, the nation is shaken up. 341 00:28:55,792 --> 00:28:59,624 And I have a lot of from the time to think 342 00:28:59,625 --> 00:29:03,583 ♪ ♪ 343 00:29:08,959 --> 00:29:13,207 We really wonder, in the face of xenophobia, 344 00:29:13,208 --> 00:29:16,000 Maybe it's not maybe doing this again 345 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:24,666 Everyone, in faces a disaster, 346 00:29:24,667 --> 00:29:28,374 reexamines who they are are in their destination 347 00:29:28,375 --> 00:29:31,999 ♪ ♪ 348 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,791 We are a group that has so many different elements. 349 00:29:35,792 --> 00:29:39,500 We can just be groups of enemies, in essence. 350 00:29:41,166 --> 00:29:42,791 And I think we all kind of know that, 351 00:29:42,792 --> 00:29:45,125 You know, we have the responsibility to... 352 00:29:47,125 --> 00:29:48,458 to work harder 353 00:29:51,917 --> 00:29:56,207 This piece is called "Quartet to the end of time," 354 00:29:56,208 --> 00:30:00,874 and it was written by a composer named Olivier Messiaen. 355 00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:05,749 He wrote this when he was a prisoner of war during World War II. 356 00:30:05,750 --> 00:30:09,875 ♪ ♪ 357 00:30:23,834 --> 00:30:25,917 How did Messiaen do that? 358 00:30:27,667 --> 00:30:30,707 How do you express it? Extraordinary sadness 359 00:30:30,708 --> 00:30:34,040 or eternity and love? 360 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:37,999 ♪ ♪ 361 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,374 You add a little vibrato, 362 00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:42,916 and you suddenly feel so you take a shower 363 00:30:42,917 --> 00:30:46,708 and covered by warmth from intense light 364 00:30:50,041 --> 00:30:52,874 Love is mythic, 365 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:56,250 eternal love, and unconditional. 366 00:31:00,250 --> 00:31:02,416 This is a paradox. 367 00:31:02,417 --> 00:31:04,707 By trying to kill human spirit, 368 00:31:04,708 --> 00:31:07,124 answers from human spirits 369 00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:09,457 is revenge with beauty. 370 00:31:09,458 --> 00:31:12,417 ♪ ♪ 371 00:31:23,458 --> 00:31:25,834 Culture doesn't end. 372 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,290 This is not a business matter where, in conclusion 373 00:31:29,291 --> 00:31:31,624 from a business deal, ... it's finished 374 00:31:31,625 --> 00:31:33,374 You know, no election cycle 375 00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:38,791 This... is about keeping things alive and growing, 376 00:31:38,792 --> 00:31:40,541 and so we decide to continue, and... 377 00:31:40,542 --> 00:31:43,124 and then that's when all of our problem starts 378 00:31:43,125 --> 00:31:46,250 ♪ ♪ 379 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,791 Cristina is one of those people 380 00:32:09,792 --> 00:32:13,833 we are lucky meet through Osvaldo. 381 00:32:13,834 --> 00:32:17,958 He said, "Guys, you have to work with Cristina 382 00:32:17,959 --> 00:32:19,874 He's great." 383 00:32:19,875 --> 00:32:24,666 He brings... something... 384 00:32:24,667 --> 00:32:29,291 so sensual, so... understated. 385 00:32:30,542 --> 00:32:31,874 He must be here, 386 00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:33,791 because he carries something it is important to... 387 00:32:33,792 --> 00:32:37,125 for universal souls and I... and it's gone 388 00:32:45,750 --> 00:32:49,750 There is something very primitive about gaita sounds 389 00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:54,834 For me, it's like hearing my father speaks 390 00:33:12,917 --> 00:33:14,999 In my generation came, 391 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,833 It's like you have two choices, 392 00:33:16,834 --> 00:33:18,874 playing soccer or playing bagpipes, 393 00:33:18,875 --> 00:33:20,374 if you were born in Galicia 394 00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:21,624 ♪ ♪ 395 00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:23,791 Ah! Man: Ah! 396 00:33:23,792 --> 00:33:25,583 What Oh! 397 00:33:27,834 --> 00:33:30,083 ♪ ♪ 398 00:33:41,959 --> 00:33:44,916 If I ask you to do it think about Spain 399 00:33:44,917 --> 00:33:46,791 and think about what it is 400 00:33:46,792 --> 00:33:49,499 that first music comes to your mind... 401 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:53,207 ♪ ♪ 402 00:33:53,208 --> 00:33:55,625 Galicia doesn't have it has something to do with it 403 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:05,332 Galicia is in the northwest Spanish corner, 404 00:34:05,333 --> 00:34:07,791 and geographically, 405 00:34:07,792 --> 00:34:09,834 it's always sort of isolated 406 00:34:11,166 --> 00:34:14,165 It has its own language, own culture, 407 00:34:14,166 --> 00:34:18,249 and if you shrink everything is only one sound, 408 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:21,125 the sound of bagpipe is Galicia sound. 409 00:34:35,959 --> 00:34:37,667 That's part of Spain... 410 00:34:39,667 --> 00:34:44,959 rich in culture and economically poor 411 00:34:48,291 --> 00:34:51,749 Cristina is very aware from what his friends and family through Galicia. 412 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:56,667 I know exactly what tradition means 413 00:34:58,417 --> 00:35:00,249 for the older generation. 414 00:35:00,250 --> 00:35:01,708 But I'm very happy about everything 415 00:35:05,875 --> 00:35:07,749 that happens in tense now 416 00:35:07,750 --> 00:35:10,500 It's like something explosive. 417 00:35:26,667 --> 00:35:29,083 He takes the tool to the extreme 418 00:35:30,583 --> 00:35:32,707 that people can't even think 419 00:35:32,708 --> 00:35:35,834 He is Jimi Hendrix from gaita 420 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,750 But, you know, I don't think everyone likes Jimi Hendrix. 421 00:35:42,625 --> 00:35:46,207 ♪ ♪ 422 00:35:46,208 --> 00:35:50,374 When you play a musical instrument it really represents 423 00:35:50,375 --> 00:35:53,040 your country or you world region, 424 00:35:53,041 --> 00:35:56,416 425 00:35:56,417 --> 00:35:59,041 that has implications. 426 00:36:02,708 --> 00:36:08,374 The first bad review I got came from the type of person 427 00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:13,040 who really wants to preserve pure, traditional Galician music, 428 00:36:13,041 --> 00:36:17,291 and some of them aren't too good for me 429 00:36:18,542 --> 00:36:21,082 I'm 18 years old 430 00:36:21,083 --> 00:36:24,749 I don't think of anything else other political meaning 431 00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:26,332 I just played bagpipes. 432 00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:29,749 ♪ ♪ 433 00:36:29,750 --> 00:36:32,040 One day I woke up and I saw myself 434 00:36:32,041 --> 00:36:34,457 do that for the rest of my life, 435 00:36:34,458 --> 00:36:37,000 and I don't like that feeling. 436 00:36:38,291 --> 00:36:43,207 I decided to put it all live far and away 437 00:36:43,208 --> 00:36:45,250 I don't even carry my bagpipe. 438 00:37:13,417 --> 00:37:14,833 I mean, I moved to New York around 10 days before 9/11 happened 439 00:37:14,834 --> 00:37:17,625 And do I say it's easy? 440 00:37:18,917 --> 00:37:20,457 It's not easy, because all stereotypes come. 441 00:37:20,458 --> 00:37:23,457 442 00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:26,582 And, you know, you are right judged by your appearance, 443 00:37:26,583 --> 00:37:28,667 and I have a big beard at that time ♪ ♪ 444 00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:33,500 I was born in Paris. 445 00:37:40,792 --> 00:37:42,625 We moved to New York, 446 00:37:44,125 --> 00:37:46,707 and I don't have anything To do that, 447 00:37:46,708 --> 00:37:48,457 except fair things change around... 448 00:37:48,458 --> 00:37:50,791 as seen, smell, taste 449 00:37:50,792 --> 00:37:55,208 And that's confusing. 450 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:58,208 Many friends say, "Why? Are you going to America? 451 00:38:00,625 --> 00:38:03,416 You are crazy." And... I am crazy. 452 00:38:03,417 --> 00:38:07,667 Can not speak English. 453 00:38:09,166 --> 00:38:10,833 No one knows what a pipe is. 454 00:38:10,834 --> 00:38:12,874 ♪ ♪ 455 00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:15,875 The first thing I learned 456 00:38:19,375 --> 00:38:21,416 is my experience as a kamancheh player 457 00:38:21,417 --> 00:38:24,999 will not count as anything 458 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,457 That is zero. 459 00:38:27,458 --> 00:38:29,208 ♪ ♪ 460 00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:37,541 461 00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:41,500 When you put yourself in a different context... 462 00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:49,499 ... then you have to do it Stretch yourself, 463 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:53,708 because no one knows the pipe or kamancheh or gaita. 464 00:38:55,542 --> 00:38:56,916 I work in a restaurant. 465 00:38:56,917 --> 00:38:58,750 I drive a taxi. 466 00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:01,040 But I want to learn, 467 00:39:01,041 --> 00:39:04,166 I want to learn and become a better musician. 468 00:39:06,708 --> 00:39:11,290 Play in Chinatown with... local musicians, 469 00:39:11,291 --> 00:39:14,417 You know, factories workers, taxi drivers 470 00:39:15,834 --> 00:39:18,750 That's the only the way I save it 471 00:39:26,375 --> 00:39:28,124 Good things are in New York, 472 00:39:28,125 --> 00:39:30,666 everyone comes from different places, 473 00:39:30,667 --> 00:39:32,750 and we all carry our roots. 474 00:39:33,917 --> 00:39:36,750 The roots are rooted here again. 475 00:39:50,375 --> 00:39:52,250 Obviously, America is very different. 476 00:39:55,291 --> 00:40:00,250 But I'm more interested in actually... in appreciating differences... 477 00:40:01,625 --> 00:40:03,165 what you have that I don't have 478 00:40:03,166 --> 00:40:04,958 That's not what I want bring from you, 479 00:40:04,959 --> 00:40:07,208 no, but I want to learn from it, no? 480 00:40:17,125 --> 00:40:18,999 I remember a press conference 481 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,541 which is the first time that we rise as a group 482 00:40:21,542 --> 00:40:22,666 to talk about what we do 483 00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:24,457 in front of the camera, in front of the press 484 00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,999 And they ask questions 485 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,833 along the line, you know, 486 00:40:29,834 --> 00:40:31,874 "It's like what you use this traditional music, 487 00:40:31,875 --> 00:40:35,165 " You mix it together, and you are diluting, 488 00:40:35,166 --> 00:40:36,666 You know, this tradition. " 489 00:40:36,667 --> 00:40:40,416 Nick, do you want to go? Uh, sure. 490 00:40:40,417 --> 00:40:42,457 I'm just horrified. creative cauldron 491 00:40:42,458 --> 00:40:43,791 Uh... 492 00:40:43,792 --> 00:40:45,791 493 00:40:45,792 --> 00:40:49,040 494 00:40:49,041 --> 00:40:50,457 495 00:40:50,458 --> 00:40:52,833 We don't have it, really, to stand on top. 496 00:40:52,834 --> 00:40:55,500 Thank you everyone, for being here 497 00:40:56,458 --> 00:40:58,249 I will go to the bathroom. 498 00:40:58,250 --> 00:41:01,874 To try to describe what we are trying to do, 499 00:41:01,875 --> 00:41:05,165 what this means and all these ... is a nightmare 500 00:41:05,166 --> 00:41:06,707 ♪ ♪ 501 00:41:06,708 --> 00:41:09,374 I know that whatever we do, 502 00:41:09,375 --> 00:41:12,124 there will be opponents from all sides 503 00:41:12,125 --> 00:41:15,040 Kinan and Wu Man, 504 00:41:15,041 --> 00:41:16,958 are you... you're ready Kinan: Yep. 505 00:41:16,959 --> 00:41:18,999 Ready. ♪ ♪ 506 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,708 Yes, criticism is painful. 507 00:41:24,375 --> 00:41:27,416 But actually you have to have confidence 508 00:41:27,417 --> 00:41:32,541 in authenticity and the power of your idea 509 00:41:32,542 --> 00:41:37,332 And I say, "Wow, let's take a chance." 510 00:41:37,333 --> 00:41:40,750 ♪ ♪ 511 00:41:53,583 --> 00:41:56,875 ♪ ♪ 512 00:42:14,291 --> 00:42:16,959 ♪ ♪ 513 00:43:22,333 --> 00:43:24,833 Phew! 514 00:43:24,834 --> 00:43:26,332 What are the views 515 00:43:26,333 --> 00:43:29,290 This project, that adds your voice 516 00:43:29,291 --> 00:43:31,416 I think this is what it is Interesting about this trip, 517 00:43:31,417 --> 00:43:33,165 ♪ ♪ You look for you voice, you know 518 00:43:33,166 --> 00:43:34,332 Sometimes you think you found it, 519 00:43:34,333 --> 00:43:37,207 and then once you have the , it changes again. 520 00:43:37,208 --> 00:43:40,500 ♪ ♪ 521 00:43:59,917 --> 00:44:02,708 Oh look, look, look. They play badminton. 522 00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:05,040 Oh yeah, let's see this. 523 00:44:05,041 --> 00:44:06,708 This... I like this 524 00:44:08,542 --> 00:44:10,374 Wow. 525 00:44:10,375 --> 00:44:14,542 - see - Wow. 526 00:44:16,041 --> 00:44:18,583 Oh Whoa! 527 00:44:21,834 --> 00:44:24,040 That's great. It was great. 528 00:44:24,041 --> 00:44:26,583 ♪ ♪ 529 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:39,249 Mmm. 530 00:44:39,250 --> 00:44:41,457 Mmm! 531 00:44:41,458 --> 00:44:44,291 ♪ ♪ 532 00:46:29,166 --> 00:46:33,625 ♪ ♪ 533 00:46:36,625 --> 00:46:39,208 ♪ ♪ 534 00:46:44,166 --> 00:46:48,917 ♪ ♪ 535 00:46:52,375 --> 00:46:55,874 This is very, very important to me 536 00:46:55,875 --> 00:46:57,207 to go and live in Iran, 537 00:46:57,208 --> 00:47:01,624 because of what happened after the revolution... 538 00:47:01,625 --> 00:47:05,666 all the better the teacher moved. 539 00:47:05,667 --> 00:47:08,707 ♪ ♪ 540 00:47:08,708 --> 00:47:13,083 I returned in 2002 to Teach Persian music 541 00:47:24,083 --> 00:47:26,250 ♪ ♪ 542 00:47:54,458 --> 00:47:56,290 Uh huh. 543 00:47:56,291 --> 00:47:58,458 ♪ ♪ 544 00:48:01,959 --> 00:48:04,958 I think living with tragedy for years 545 00:48:04,959 --> 00:48:07,625 and alone is really, very tough 546 00:48:11,333 --> 00:48:13,458 So when he moved back to Iran... 547 00:48:14,875 --> 00:48:17,959 he starts teaching, meets Zohreh... 548 00:48:18,834 --> 00:48:20,458 and that changes his life. 549 00:48:44,291 --> 00:48:46,250 ♪ ♪ 550 00:48:54,583 --> 00:48:57,375 ♪ ♪ 551 00:49:07,875 --> 00:49:09,874 It's very dangerous. 552 00:49:09,875 --> 00:49:11,499 Iranian government 553 00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:12,541 really makes them... 554 00:49:12,542 --> 00:49:16,040 their eyes... on artists like Kayhan 555 00:49:16,041 --> 00:49:17,833 and other musicians are quite popular 556 00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:21,707 They are warned that they cannot join 557 00:49:21,708 --> 00:49:24,749 in a conversation about what happened in Iran ♪ ♪ 558 00:49:24,750 --> 00:49:27,249 559 00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:30,333 One thing I can't do is accept violence. 560 00:49:33,375 --> 00:49:36,332 I've been blatant, I'm active, 561 00:49:36,333 --> 00:49:39,040 You know, to try to help that. 562 00:49:39,041 --> 00:49:40,207 ♪ ♪ 563 00:49:40,208 --> 00:49:44,207 Did something happen? for you personally? 564 00:49:44,208 --> 00:49:47,374 Yes, but, you know, I... I don't want to talk, 565 00:49:47,375 --> 00:49:49,208 You know, for cameras about that. 566 00:49:52,458 --> 00:49:55,541 I can choose to be part of the community or not and-and... and it's not a very idealistic society 567 00:49:55,542 --> 00:50:00,916 for me to be part of... 568 00:50:00,917 --> 00:50:02,542 so I have to go 569 00:50:04,875 --> 00:50:06,208 But... Zohreh stayed. 570 00:50:09,375 --> 00:50:12,750 I have not returned five years now, yeah 571 00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:23,250 You know, I miss him, 572 00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:33,916 and I miss my homeland, 573 00:50:33,917 --> 00:50:35,999 and I always want to go back and stay there 574 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,250 575 00:50:40,917 --> 00:50:43,083 I have not been able to do it so far 576 00:50:44,834 --> 00:50:46,958 But I think that... it will happen. 577 00:50:46,959 --> 00:50:49,458 ♪ ♪ 578 00:50:54,125 --> 00:50:56,290 Yes, I think I missed one. 579 00:50:56,291 --> 00:50:57,959 Okay, alright, alright. 580 00:50:59,959 --> 00:51:03,457 Good. I like to ask you something I want a very free rhythm 581 00:51:03,458 --> 00:51:09,082 and almost nothing. 582 00:51:09,083 --> 00:51:10,916 It's kind of intimate and atmosphere and... 583 00:51:10,917 --> 00:51:15,541 So, how are you doing? 584 00:51:15,542 --> 00:51:17,791 ♪ ♪ 585 00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:21,667 This can go... Can do something there 586 00:51:34,667 --> 00:51:37,667 Good. Something like that. 587 00:51:52,917 --> 00:51:54,749 Birds of Mongolia wings fluttering 588 00:51:54,750 --> 00:51:58,249 And if you want to do it... 589 00:51:58,250 --> 00:51:59,457 You know, it can be a breeze right? I see... 590 00:51:59,458 --> 00:52:02,959 - Is that okay? Yes. - Lets do it. 591 00:52:04,959 --> 00:52:07,332 So it should sound like a giant horse farting Do you know? As... 592 00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:09,457 593 00:52:09,458 --> 00:52:13,624 594 00:52:13,625 --> 00:52:15,583 Back to top. 595 00:52:32,417 --> 00:52:36,875 In America, the first few years are very difficult But the music circle and the music the community is very small 596 00:52:42,750 --> 00:52:46,375 So when you are interested, 597 00:52:47,750 --> 00:52:49,707 You go looking for something, 598 00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:51,582 and surely, is there or there 599 00:52:51,583 --> 00:52:54,416 if you notice 600 00:52:54,417 --> 00:52:56,082 ♪ ♪ 601 00:52:56,083 --> 00:52:59,875 My instrument, no one knows. 602 00:53:01,959 --> 00:53:04,666 And I remember one day, I got a call 603 00:53:04,667 --> 00:53:09,374 "How can this string quartet? want to work with me?" 604 00:53:09,375 --> 00:53:12,374 ♪ ♪ 605 00:53:12,375 --> 00:53:17,417 He is a total rock star. 606 00:53:19,750 --> 00:53:21,416 He starts playing with So many different people. 607 00:53:21,417 --> 00:53:25,417 It's like, "I need a pipe player!" "Call Wu man." 608 00:53:26,917 --> 00:53:30,250 ♪ ♪ 609 00:53:39,750 --> 00:53:42,792 In America, people think you are Chinese 610 00:53:54,250 --> 00:53:57,000 You play chinese instruments and from China. 611 00:53:58,083 --> 00:54:01,457 612 00:54:01,458 --> 00:54:02,916 But when I return to China, 613 00:54:02,917 --> 00:54:04,625 they say, "Oh, you're American." 614 00:54:06,041 --> 00:54:09,291 ♪ ♪ 615 00:54:13,542 --> 00:54:17,333 "You... You don't know China today." 616 00:54:29,375 --> 00:54:31,582 When you leave home, your country, 617 00:54:31,583 --> 00:54:37,290 and you have this photo that in your mind 618 00:54:37,291 --> 00:54:41,500 When I come back, there is nothing right that image is in my mind 619 00:54:44,959 --> 00:54:46,332 Everything changes. 620 00:54:46,333 --> 00:54:49,707 People even speak differently. 621 00:54:49,708 --> 00:54:55,332 ♪ ♪ 622 00:54:55,333 --> 00:54:57,374 I think the challenge is in Galicia right now 623 00:54:57,375 --> 00:55:00,874 The same challenges that exist around the world, 624 00:55:00,875 --> 00:55:03,958 who are guarding Your roots live. 625 00:55:03,959 --> 00:55:07,583 ♪ ♪ 626 00:55:14,959 --> 00:55:17,833 There are no traditions that exist today 627 00:55:17,834 --> 00:55:21,750 That is not the result of a truly successful discovery But unless tradition continues to grow... 628 00:55:24,917 --> 00:55:29,000 ... naturally become smaller and smaller. 629 00:55:30,708 --> 00:55:35,041 630 00:55:36,875 --> 00:55:39,749 That brings me back to China, 631 00:55:39,750 --> 00:55:43,791 to rediscover "What What is Chinese music?" 632 00:55:43,792 --> 00:55:47,750 ♪ ♪ 633 00:56:00,542 --> 00:56:03,625 None of us can prove it anything about how... 634 00:56:04,583 --> 00:56:07,083 a lot of the past we bring with us 635 00:56:10,458 --> 00:56:14,542 I have thought about this is, in the mind of Yo-Yo... 636 00:56:16,375 --> 00:56:19,583 investigation into his own past. 637 00:56:24,125 --> 00:56:27,374 My father was born in 1911... 638 00:56:27,375 --> 00:56:32,959 and he left China when he was 25 to go to France to study. 639 00:56:36,583 --> 00:56:40,874 And he wrote about it the combination of Chinese music 640 00:56:40,875 --> 00:56:45,667 It might sound like a Frenchman the technique of composing 641 00:56:47,291 --> 00:56:51,707 Isn't that weird, years later... 642 00:56:51,708 --> 00:56:54,624 the apple doesn't fall that is far from the tree? 643 00:56:54,625 --> 00:56:58,792 ♪ ♪ 644 00:57:14,333 --> 00:57:19,500 ♪ ♪ 645 00:57:36,250 --> 00:57:37,333 Yo-Yo! 646 00:57:38,583 --> 00:57:42,666 Yo-Yo 647 00:57:42,667 --> 00:57:43,750 Yo-Yo 648 00:57:47,208 --> 00:57:51,040 That's Yo-Yo, the dog. 649 00:57:51,041 --> 00:57:52,375 Okay, let's go in 650 00:58:22,667 --> 00:58:25,082 This house is for me. 651 00:58:25,083 --> 00:58:27,791 Every birthday I since I was first, 652 00:58:27,792 --> 00:58:31,500 my first birthday, celebrated here or in this house 653 00:58:48,458 --> 00:58:51,124 ♪ ♪ 654 00:58:51,125 --> 00:58:54,916 And for us to save it life culture identity 655 00:58:54,917 --> 00:58:59,249 may be one of the most important aspects 656 00:58:59,250 --> 00:59:01,290 what does it mean to become a Galician. 657 00:59:01,291 --> 00:59:03,708 ♪ ♪ 658 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,666 During the time history, 659 00:59:09,667 --> 00:59:12,040 Many differences Civilizations have tried 660 00:59:12,041 --> 00:59:14,667 to take that identity... 661 00:59:16,333 --> 00:59:18,125 like the Roman Empire. 662 00:59:34,959 --> 00:59:36,457 ... they will lose their memories 663 00:59:36,458 --> 00:59:38,959 They... they can't remember what 664 00:59:40,041 --> 00:59:43,250 ♪ ♪ 665 01:00:27,792 --> 01:00:30,457 That is the legend behind the piece 666 01:00:30,458 --> 01:00:32,541 I write for my mother, 667 01:00:32,542 --> 01:00:35,416 that might be like four years ago 668 01:00:35,417 --> 01:00:37,417 start... to... 669 01:00:38,875 --> 01:00:40,708 lost his memory 670 01:01:21,750 --> 01:01:23,959 We want to protect what we have... 671 01:01:25,625 --> 01:01:30,207 our culture, our music... 672 01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:34,707 and we want our children keep the language alive 673 01:01:34,708 --> 01:01:39,749 ♪ ♪ 674 01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:42,875 And in order to live, You must let it grow. 675 01:01:47,708 --> 01:01:50,291 ♪ ♪ 676 01:01:55,959 --> 01:01:58,624 Many people, when they think of the Middle East, 677 01:01:58,625 --> 01:02:01,207 they think of divisions, like Sunni, Shia, 678 01:02:01,208 --> 01:02:04,791 Christians, Armenians, Kurds, Turks 679 01:02:04,792 --> 01:02:07,457 ♪ ♪ 680 01:02:07,458 --> 01:02:09,666 I don't think about Middle East like this. 681 01:02:09,667 --> 01:02:11,958 You know, I guess This is an ancient place 682 01:02:11,959 --> 01:02:15,499 where all cultures occur to exist at some point. 683 01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:17,916 - how many? - Sorry 684 01:02:17,917 --> 01:02:20,124 It's okay, it's okay. I m will only play this, huh? 685 01:02:20,125 --> 01:02:22,125 Yes? 686 01:02:24,792 --> 01:02:26,332 When we were at Juilliard, 687 01:02:26,333 --> 01:02:28,750 Kinan and me, Kinan pass. 688 01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:33,458 He makes this very moving, beautiful pieces 689 01:02:34,834 --> 01:02:36,707 And I told Kinan, I said, 690 01:02:36,708 --> 01:02:38,749 "I think I can contribute 691 01:02:38,750 --> 01:02:40,499 something in this section." 692 01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:43,166 ♪ ♪ 693 01:02:58,458 --> 01:03:01,541 We think it's very similar, 694 01:03:01,542 --> 01:03:03,999 Although he is an Arab Muslim and I am Armenian Christian. 695 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:05,332 This... it's not necessary. 696 01:03:05,333 --> 01:03:06,541 We grow without knowledge 697 01:03:06,542 --> 01:03:08,707 who are Christians, who are Muslims in Syria 698 01:03:08,708 --> 01:03:10,166 That is not necessary. 699 01:03:13,333 --> 01:03:15,332 So this place... First church, 700 01:03:15,333 --> 01:03:17,499 and then turn out to become a mosque. 701 01:03:17,500 --> 01:03:21,000 And then here, is now a museum. 702 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,500 ♪ ♪ 703 01:03:56,959 --> 01:03:59,082 No, "This is very beautiful, I don't want to cover it up." 704 01:03:59,083 --> 01:04:01,916 That's the power of art, 705 01:04:01,917 --> 01:04:05,750 any cross... limitations. 706 01:04:32,083 --> 01:04:35,249 This is the word "F". 707 01:04:35,250 --> 01:04:36,959 Fa... fun 708 01:04:43,583 --> 01:04:45,250 Whoa. 709 01:04:49,917 --> 01:04:51,541 Apparently I think My father works 710 01:04:51,542 --> 01:04:53,249 at the airport when I'm still small, 711 01:04:53,250 --> 01:04:54,791 because that's where he always goes, 712 01:04:57,250 --> 01:05:01,125 that he didn't, actually... was employed by Logan Airport. 713 01:05:03,291 --> 01:05:06,040 But he knows what's important, 714 01:05:06,041 --> 01:05:09,916 and I think he saw his obligations, 715 01:05:09,917 --> 01:05:12,749 especially when he goes to small cities, 716 01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,791 as the beginning when he landed 717 01:05:14,792 --> 01:05:18,250 and last forever When he is on the ground. 718 01:05:23,625 --> 01:05:27,374 He is there to spread feel the world 719 01:05:27,375 --> 01:05:29,249 in every conversation 720 01:05:29,250 --> 01:05:30,874 and interactions occur 721 01:05:30,875 --> 01:05:33,000 Wow. 722 01:05:34,041 --> 01:05:35,165 Good night. 723 01:05:35,166 --> 01:05:36,916 I am Yo-Yo Ma, 724 01:05:36,707 --> 01:05:40,166 and this is my brother, Kayhan Kalhor. 725 01:05:42,208 --> 01:05:43,916 Now, we're twins, 726 01:05:43,917 --> 01:05:46,375 but we separated at birth. 727 01:05:47,708 --> 01:05:52,625 But we know from DNA analysis... 728 01:05:55,083 --> 01:05:57,708 even our life choices... 729 01:05:59,959 --> 01:06:02,166 is the same. Almost, yes. 730 01:06:53,708 --> 01:06:57,165 Everyone is afraid to go 731 01:06:57,166 --> 01:06:58,959 somewhere they have never gone before 732 01:07:00,333 --> 01:07:05,082 But you build enough trust in groups, 733 01:07:05,083 --> 01:07:09,207 and sometimes can change fear into joy 734 01:07:09,208 --> 01:07:12,417 ♪ ♪ 735 01:07:55,667 --> 01:08:00,125 ♪ ♪ 736 01:08:18,041 --> 01:08:22,125 ♪ ♪ 737 01:08:31,166 --> 01:08:35,166 ♪ ♪ 738 01:08:42,500 --> 01:08:45,667 Seduce! 739 01:08:46,667 --> 01:08:48,499 Many of us in our own careers 740 01:08:48,500 --> 01:08:50,332 has developed in different directions. 741 01:08:50,333 --> 01:08:51,499 We have our own band, 742 01:08:51,500 --> 01:08:54,040 or we have our own property work here and there, 743 01:08:54,041 --> 01:08:58,124 but this is one place where you can unite... 744 01:08:58,125 --> 01:09:01,708 and play music that you... You can't play otherwise. 745 01:09:03,041 --> 01:09:05,791 That tells people like me, 746 01:09:05,792 --> 01:09:08,708 it's okay to do what I do. 747 01:09:39,125 --> 01:09:40,417 Ah. 748 01:10:16,542 --> 01:10:18,834 ♪ ♪ 749 01:11:42,125 --> 01:11:45,834 ♪ ♪ 750 01:11:50,959 --> 01:11:52,541 Music is their whole life, 751 01:11:52,542 --> 01:11:56,207 and they say that is already the 11th generation. 752 01:11:56,208 --> 01:11:58,499 So I asked them, "What around the 12th generation? 753 01:11:58,500 --> 01:12:01,165 Is there 12, 13?" 754 01:12:01,166 --> 01:12:04,124 They look at me. No answer. 755 01:12:04,125 --> 01:12:08,583 So that... for me, is really emotional 756 01:12:09,875 --> 01:12:14,375 ♪ ♪ 757 01:13:09,792 --> 01:13:11,958 I don't know who writes the script 758 01:13:11,959 --> 01:13:14,667 for a different revolution, but They all look the same... 759 01:13:15,792 --> 01:13:18,375 ... and that affects people living the same way 760 01:13:23,667 --> 01:13:25,833 The Cultural Revolution is 761 01:13:25,834 --> 01:13:28,792 darkest history Chinese time period. 762 01:13:31,417 --> 01:13:34,457 And for artists, there not creation. 763 01:13:34,458 --> 01:13:37,666 ♪ ♪ 764 01:13:37,667 --> 01:13:39,458 The party tells you what to do. 765 01:13:55,208 --> 01:13:57,165 I question the role of art. 766 01:13:57,166 --> 01:14:00,040 I question my role, like, "What am I doing?" 767 01:14:00,041 --> 01:14:02,958 ♪ ♪ 768 01:14:02,959 --> 01:14:04,499 What is my role compared to 769 01:14:04,500 --> 01:14:06,666 for someone who is on the ground, 770 01:14:06,667 --> 01:14:07,916 demonstrate peacefully 771 01:14:07,917 --> 01:14:09,958 at risk of being shot, you know 772 01:14:09,959 --> 01:14:11,792 ♪ ♪ 773 01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:21,332 If you ask me, "Do you want to go home?" 774 01:14:21,333 --> 01:14:23,040 Of course, I want to do... I want to go home, 775 01:14:23,041 --> 01:14:25,041 but under what circumstances will I go 776 01:14:26,708 --> 01:14:28,834 ♪ ♪ 777 01:14:41,542 --> 01:14:45,375 ♪ ♪ 778 01:15:03,875 --> 01:15:05,707 We are human... 779 01:15:05,708 --> 01:15:08,583 we have a tendency to control everything... 780 01:15:09,625 --> 01:15:13,541 earth, animals, you know, 781 01:15:13,542 --> 01:15:15,917 even humans around us. 782 01:15:22,041 --> 01:15:23,582 Endless. 783 01:15:23,583 --> 01:15:25,917 ♪ ♪ 784 01:15:30,625 --> 01:15:33,916 Later, when Iran-Iraq War begins, 785 01:15:33,917 --> 01:15:37,249 it's very, very hard times 786 01:15:37,250 --> 01:15:40,208 ♪ ♪ 787 01:15:45,834 --> 01:15:47,834 I lost two of my friends. 788 01:15:54,834 --> 01:15:56,458 I lost my best friend. 789 01:15:59,792 --> 01:16:03,917 And later... a missile hit our house 790 01:16:08,083 --> 01:16:10,791 I lost my whole family, 791 01:16:10,792 --> 01:16:12,917 my parents and my brother 792 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,792 I mean, you see how the world reacts to Syria No one cares, 793 01:16:29,667 --> 01:16:31,165 if I can use real language 794 01:16:31,166 --> 01:16:33,999 That's like... 795 01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:35,207 ♪ ♪ 796 01:16:35,208 --> 01:16:38,500 Just three days ago, 797 01:17:07,500 --> 01:17:09,124 people die of cold 798 01:17:09,125 --> 01:17:12,000 I mean, it's that simple. 799 01:17:13,542 --> 01:17:15,041 I mean, the fact that they try to cut off aid to... 800 01:17:21,542 --> 01:17:24,582 for refugees, because is too expensive. 801 01:17:24,583 --> 01:17:27,374 Fuck. 802 01:17:27,375 --> 01:17:28,874 803 01:17:28,875 --> 01:17:32,207 You know, it's only people don't... not bothered 804 01:17:32,208 --> 01:17:36,166 ♪ ♪ 805 01:17:51,834 --> 01:17:55,250 We are not ours political identity 806 01:17:57,917 --> 01:18:01,750 Nobody remembers who king when Beethoven lived 807 01:18:03,041 --> 01:18:05,124 But still culture, 808 01:18:05,125 --> 01:18:07,416 fixed language as a part of culture, 809 01:18:07,417 --> 01:18:09,917 music remains as part of culture. 810 01:18:38,291 --> 01:18:42,667 Art is more about opening up yourself for possibilities. 811 01:18:44,917 --> 01:18:47,000 Possible links to expectations. 812 01:18:48,458 --> 01:18:50,083 We all need hope. 813 01:19:07,959 --> 01:19:09,958 Hey, Yo-Yo. Hai, Fred. 814 01:19:09,959 --> 01:19:12,124 Nice to meet you Nice to meet you. 815 01:19:12,125 --> 01:19:14,332 Thank you. When you play, 816 01:19:14,333 --> 01:19:17,374 I'm sure you have lots of different feelings And when you play as a child, 817 01:19:17,375 --> 01:19:19,666 have you ever played happy things or things that are sad 818 01:19:19,667 --> 01:19:22,707 or just angry things because you want to? 819 01:19:22,708 --> 01:19:24,749 820 01:19:24,750 --> 01:19:28,666 Oh, of course. One of my favorites is "The Swan," which... 821 01:19:28,667 --> 01:19:31,458 ♪ ♪ 822 01:19:41,708 --> 01:19:44,708 And you can imagine the goose... right? 823 01:20:13,583 --> 01:20:15,541 You see anyone's life, 824 01:20:15,542 --> 01:20:18,541 You can find tragedy. 825 01:20:18,542 --> 01:20:24,208 There are no good passages that are great things or things that are terrible. 826 01:20:28,041 --> 01:20:30,541 That is the space between them life and death. 827 01:20:30,542 --> 01:20:33,041 ♪ ♪ 828 01:21:02,583 --> 01:21:04,917 How do you handle fear and doubt? 829 01:21:07,083 --> 01:21:08,416 Do you dare go there? 830 01:21:08,417 --> 01:21:11,707 Can you put all yourself behind something 831 01:21:11,708 --> 01:21:16,417 and truly authentic in doing with your best ability? 832 01:21:39,708 --> 01:21:41,166 Okay then. 833 01:21:44,333 --> 01:21:48,291 This is the first time I tried it to smuggle a flute somewhere. 834 01:21:49,500 --> 01:21:51,250 It feels like smuggling flutes, actually... 835 01:21:52,583 --> 01:21:54,333 but it's smuggling for good purposes 836 01:21:55,583 --> 01:21:58,166 ♪ ♪ 837 01:22:04,875 --> 01:22:07,707 Of course it's emotional, huh. It's just emotional. 838 01:22:07,708 --> 01:22:09,667 I will teach... 839 01:22:10,667 --> 01:22:12,833 Syrian children who have... 840 01:22:12,834 --> 01:22:15,332 They leave their homes by force. 841 01:22:15,333 --> 01:22:18,500 ♪ ♪ 842 01:22:57,542 --> 01:22:59,125 I'm like them when I was a kid. 843 01:23:02,875 --> 01:23:04,916 Look, I don't have... 844 01:23:04,917 --> 01:23:06,457 a hope that I will become 845 01:23:06,458 --> 01:23:09,624 in New York do my art. 846 01:23:09,625 --> 01:23:13,249 And surely, one or two of them Children, they will succeed. 847 01:23:13,250 --> 01:23:16,124 So if we can inspire them and can help them to do this, 848 01:23:16,125 --> 01:23:19,375 they will be fair continue this... this circle. 849 01:24:25,208 --> 01:24:27,417 ♪ ♪ 850 01:24:44,083 --> 01:24:46,458 ♪ ♪ 851 01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:26,667 ♪ ♪ 852 01:25:42,708 --> 01:25:45,707 This is one of those moments again in your life, you know 853 01:25:45,708 --> 01:25:48,041 Only you realize that... 854 01:25:50,708 --> 01:25:52,874 Remember what I am doing for culture 855 01:25:52,875 --> 01:25:54,290 and for the country, you know, 856 01:25:54,291 --> 01:25:55,791 I shouldn't be treated like that. 857 01:25:55,792 --> 01:25:58,417 This is what I don't deserve. 858 01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:14,625 You know, I miss my wife. 859 01:26:17,083 --> 01:26:19,875 No problem where the base is... 860 01:26:21,041 --> 01:26:23,917 as long as we try to see each other, you know, 861 01:26:24,792 --> 01:26:27,417 as-as... as much as we can. 862 01:26:30,583 --> 01:26:34,792 ♪ ♪ 863 01:26:54,792 --> 01:26:56,834 Zohreh. 864 01:27:32,750 --> 01:27:35,290 We have a tendency not to to appreciate 865 01:27:35,291 --> 01:27:38,040 beautiful things that surround us. 866 01:27:38,041 --> 01:27:41,666 But if you realize what you have in this life 867 01:27:41,667 --> 01:27:45,165 and how valuable the breath you take, 868 01:27:45,166 --> 01:27:49,875 the water you drink, music in your life... 869 01:27:50,917 --> 01:27:53,040 and your loved ones around you, 870 01:27:53,041 --> 01:27:56,999 it's just big wealth and happiness 871 01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:58,667 who doesn't have... 872 01:27:59,667 --> 01:28:01,707 to have anything else to solve it 873 01:28:01,708 --> 01:28:03,499 This is only complete by itself. 874 01:28:03,500 --> 01:28:08,000 ♪ ♪ 875 01:28:20,375 --> 01:28:22,457 What is the purpose 876 01:28:22,458 --> 01:28:25,249 Everything I've learned about doing, 877 01:28:25,250 --> 01:28:26,874 about music, 878 01:28:26,875 --> 01:28:30,083 about what happened between notes... 879 01:28:31,125 --> 01:28:34,707 it's about making sure culture is important 880 01:28:34,708 --> 01:28:39,290 ♪ ♪ 881 01:28:39,291 --> 01:28:42,457 I don't think Yo-Yo saw himself as a cellist 882 01:28:42,458 --> 01:28:43,707 I think he sees himself 883 01:28:43,708 --> 01:28:46,124 as someone who wants to change the world, 884 01:28:46,125 --> 01:28:47,707 and he happens to have cello 885 01:28:47,708 --> 01:28:48,874 with him half time. 886 01:28:48,875 --> 01:28:51,207 ♪ ♪ 887 01:28:51,208 --> 01:28:54,916 And he wants us collaborators with scientists 888 01:28:54,917 --> 01:28:58,875 and become collaborators with historians and educators. 889 01:29:03,542 --> 01:29:07,082 I would like it very much to be contagious 890 01:29:07,083 --> 01:29:10,457 It & apos; s nice just to see that This is a new way of thinking, 891 01:29:10,458 --> 01:29:13,083 Also about music, about what people can do with 892 01:29:22,375 --> 01:29:24,040 Cultural identity, 893 01:29:24,041 --> 01:29:28,749 it really shapes you decisions all the time, 894 01:29:28,750 --> 01:29:30,874 and you can accept it 895 01:29:30,875 --> 01:29:33,041 as a good challenge or bad 896 01:29:34,875 --> 01:29:38,249 Being part of this experiment does make me understand 897 01:29:38,250 --> 01:29:42,000 what does it mean to save your identity alive 898 01:29:45,417 --> 01:29:50,624 I have a dream about having a sort of role in... 899 01:29:50,625 --> 01:29:53,791 in art in Galicia in the future. 900 01:29:53,792 --> 01:29:59,791 And for that, I... I started festival, Galician Connection. 901 01:29:59,792 --> 01:30:03,874 This is a festival where I put it together with international artists with Galicia traditional artists 902 01:30:03,875 --> 01:30:06,583 When you learn something From another culture, 903 01:30:12,792 --> 01:30:15,207 904 01:30:15,208 --> 01:30:19,125 You will grow more if so restore your own culture. 905 01:30:55,750 --> 01:30:58,207 Just imagine, if we don't have 906 01:30:58,208 --> 01:31:01,165 Silk line musicians move around, 907 01:31:01,166 --> 01:31:02,499 Chinese music scene 908 01:31:02,500 --> 01:31:06,000 or western music Different scenes. 909 01:31:08,041 --> 01:31:11,083 For me, the world is round. 910 01:31:18,834 --> 01:31:22,417 There is no east or west. This is only a globe. 911 01:31:47,917 --> 01:31:49,249 As a four-year-old child, 912 01:31:49,250 --> 01:31:54,375 what I want to do Life is to understand. 913 01:31:56,375 --> 01:31:58,624 Like T.S. Eliot said, 914 01:31:58,625 --> 01:32:01,375 "We will never stop from exploration... 915 01:32:02,333 --> 01:32:05,541 " and the end of everything from our exploration... 916 01:32:05,542 --> 01:32:09,416 "will arrive where we start... 917 01:32:09,417 --> 01:32:12,583 and know where is for the first time." 918 01:32:19,250 --> 01:32:22,916 I don't think that Silk Road Project is trying to go home. 919 01:32:22,917 --> 01:32:26,791 I think that's what he tried away, away from music, 920 01:32:26,792 --> 01:32:30,500 far from one repertoire. 921 01:32:31,875 --> 01:32:33,624 And I think through that process, 922 01:32:33,625 --> 01:32:35,667 he found himself at home again. Delivered by: www.subtitlecinema.com