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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement II plays]

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-[Larry] "Joy."

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"Let millions be embraced."

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"A kiss for the whole world."

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What are these words?

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What do they mean?

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This declaration that
caught the imagination

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of a young
idealistic Beethoven.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement II continues]

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-[Larry] Words that he waited
a lifetime to set to music.

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In his ninth and
final symphony,

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the first symphony in
history that used text.

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[singers warming up]

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-[Larry] "All people
become brothers

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beneath thy gentle wing."

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Why?

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Why were these words
so important to Beethoven

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that had led him to alter
the course of music?

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[cheering]

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement II playing]

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-[Larry] Did he really believe

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that humankind
was harmonious?

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Or that one day we
might achieve harmony?

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That we would embrace
one another in light,

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in love, and at peace?

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement II playing]

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-[Larry] This is a film
in which we set out

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to feature nine subjects,

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who somehow
embody Beethoven,

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his ninth symphony,

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and the ideals
that inspired him.

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What resulted is not the film
that I had expected to make.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement II continues]

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[explosion]

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I plays]

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-[Woman] Damn,
they are over our heads!

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-[Man] They fly
right over the houses!

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Sons of bitches!

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-[Volodymyr Zelensky]
All of us are here,

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protecting our independence
and our country.

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And it will continue
to be this way.

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Glory to our defenders,
glory to the heroes.

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Glory to Ukraine.

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-[Everyone] Glory to Ukraine.

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[helicopters whirring]

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-[Man] The first day,
when the war started,

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it was a huge shock.

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[missiles whooshing]

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-[Man 2] Everything changes
when you feel the blast wave

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for the first time.

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[fire crackling]

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-[Woman] I think it's the
heaviest year in my life.

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[explosion]

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[men shouting]

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-[Man 2] I saw
dead people,

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screams, black smoke, fire.

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-[Woman 2] I left Ukraine,

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I had to start
my life from zero.

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[rockets whooshing]

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-[Man 3] Rockets in the night.

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Not one rocket,
few rockets came.

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And they were flying
just above my house.

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And that sound is terrifying.

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When you hear it,
and then you hear explosion,

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and you understand that
next one can be yours.

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[instruments tuning]

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-[Keri-Lynn] I started
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra

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because I was very angry,
and screaming, and crying,

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and outraged at
the start of the invasion.

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And I needed to do something
that would defend Ukraine,

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and its people, and fate,
on the cultural front.

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It was the idea I had to
find the group of musicians

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who are fleeing their
country desperately,

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who had no more voice.

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-[Keri-Lynn] Thank you.

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Number five please.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I playing]

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-[Keri-Lynn] Late.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I continues]

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I continues]

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-[Man 4] We are
playing together,

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music of Beethoven,

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that cries, and screaming
about the freedom.

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So that's amazing for me.

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I feel so grateful.

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-[Man 5] It's not only music,
we are here for the message.

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Listen us, listen us,
we are working together,

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we will do
something fantastic.

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And we want to now play.

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-[Woman] At that moment,

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of this hard moment
for our country,

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it was a moment
of salvation, you know,

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for me to be there
between my people.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I continues]

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-[Keri-Lynn] There's
a lot of work to do,

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because it's
obviously a group

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that has never played together.

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And so, having to come
and make a harmonious group.

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We already have the desire,

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we have the passion
to be the very best,

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but it requires
a lot of work.

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There is hope, there is hope.

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Who would have ever thought
that out of all this misery,

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and oppression, and horror,

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that something so beautiful
could be realized from it?

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I continues]

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-[Larry] Beethoven
was entirely deaf

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by the time he wrote
his Ninth Symphony.

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But maybe this limitation
somehow liberated him.

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Out of the silence
and unhindered,

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he could imagine sounds

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that no composer had
ever imagined before.

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[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I continues]

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-[Gabriela] My name is
Gabriela Lena Frank.

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I am a composer and a pianist.

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I'm also the director of the

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Gabriela Lena Frank
Creative Academy of Music.

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So I was fitted
with my hearing aids

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when I was about
five years old.

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And my father, he would read
to me while holding me close,

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and I remember his body
vibrating with the stories,

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and then my brother started
taking piano lessons.

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And I used to
sit near the piano,

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and I could feel it
just ringing to life.

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And I started playing piano
before I got my hearing aids.

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-[Gabriela] So that's
the first piece

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I ever learned of Beethoven.

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That's the little Ecossaise.

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And then after that, I learned
the First Piano Sonata.

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[Plays Beethoven
Piano Sonata 1]

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-[Gabriela] I remember that
first day when I got fitted,

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and they put the
hearing aids in,

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and the first thing I
heard was the air just went--

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[blows]

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And it just came to life,
there was a sound to the room.

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And the technician
said "Hi, Gabriela."

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and it was something I had
never experienced before.

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And then I remember
going to the piano,

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and it had this life that I
had never experienced before.

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-[Gabriela] You see
some of the hallmarks

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of Beethoven already.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] I think
Beethoven's music,

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if he hadn't lost his hearing,
would be very different.

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And the oscillating,
of course,

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when you're doing
something like this...

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[plays two alternating notes]

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-[Gabriela] The piano's
starting to ring back at you,

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and the more you do it...

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] I still feel it,
I still feel it,

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I still feel it,
I still feel it.

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-[Gabriela] The things
that we know him for,

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the relentless energy
of his music,

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the oscillating
piano patterns,

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the exploration of
the outer registers,

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the pitches, the contrast.

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The way he
played with silence,

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you know, that's very
important to his music.

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I don't think he would have
been as attracted natively

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to that if it weren't
for his hearing loss.

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[Plays Beethoven's
Sonata Pathetique]

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-[Gabriela] Pathetique
Sonata was 1798,

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and I'm very sure
that by this point

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he was experiencing
hearing loss.

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Even if he wasn't
completely aware,

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because hearing
loss creeps up on you.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] So he had
his hands opening up.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] That just grows,
and by the time we get to 1804,

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we get to the Waldstein.

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[Plays Beethoven's Waldstein]

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-[Gabriela] It's just
pure rhythm,

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it's just pure energy.

00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:08.720
Nothing else happening.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] There couldn't
be more difference.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] And look at
the distance between that.

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] So if I were to
take out my hearing aids...

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[continues playing]

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-[Gabriela] Now I'm on
a modern instrument,

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but with my pedal,
which he has marked here,

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the piano, I can still
feel the piano ringing.

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I can't hear it,
but it's still alive.

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-[Gabriela] He was
exaggerating all of that,

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and that was revolutionary
for piano composition.

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And it took a deaf person to
come along and revolutionize

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piano compositions, and he
would go on to influence

00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:04.000
hearing composers for
generations after him,

00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:06.480
and I think it's
a deaf aesthetic.

00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.080
[Beethoven's String
Quartet No. 9 plays]

00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.520
-[Larry] In his youth,
Beethoven devoured

00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:15.480
the writings of the new school

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of the Enlightenment
philosophers.

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These progressive thinkers
were hoping to lift humankind

00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.320
from the greed of aristocracy,
and the corruption of politics.

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[String Quartet
No. 9 continues]

00:10:29.640 --> 00:10:32.520
-[Larry] They rejected
repressive religious dogma.

00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:37.560
Some even daring to question
whether there was a God at all.

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But of all the
Enlightenment writers,

00:10:42.520 --> 00:10:44.240
it was the
German poet Schiller

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who moved Beethoven the most,
with his poem Ode to Joy.

00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.520
[String Quartet
No. 9 continues]

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-[Rebecca] The ideals
of the Enlightenment

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were permeating European
society, German society,

00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:05.600
in the 18th century.

00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.680
And I mean it was cool,
it was sexy,

00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:09.680
it was fantastic.

00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.080
You know, all the cool kids
were Enlightenment thinkers.

00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:17.480
Beethoven would have been
well aware of what was flying.

00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.400
I think we come
into this world,

00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.640
and we want to know
three big things, all of us.

00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:27.800
Where are we?

00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.040
What's the nature
of this world?

00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.800
That's the first question,
second question,

00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:34.960
what's our relationship to it?

00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:36.520
Does it care about us?

00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:39.120
Is it hostile to us?

00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:40.720
Are we made of the
same stuff of the world?

00:11:40.760 --> 00:11:43.040
Or are we something
more Godlike?

00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.520
And the third question is,

00:11:45.560 --> 00:11:47.640
what are we supposed to do

00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:51.360
with this short time
that we have in this life?

00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:56.720
To deal with those
three questions,

00:11:56.760 --> 00:12:02.560
banishing fantasies, what
we'd like the answers to be.

00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:06.040
But to actually look
to the world itself,

00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.200
evidence from the world.

00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.960
To answer those questions,

00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.320
I think that's what the
Enlightenment was.

00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:21.960
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata No. 8 plays]

00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.400
-[Benjamin] Charles Schultz
loved classical music.

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Beethoven, though, of course
held a special place for him.

00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.440
Schroeder's introduced
very early into Peanuts,

00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.960
in within the first year
or so, about 1951.

00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.520
And in fact, he's only
about the second character

00:12:55.560 --> 00:12:57.320
to be introduced
after the beginning.

00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.040
So he's one of the very oldest
characters in the strip.

00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.320
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata No. 8 continues]

00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.560
-[Benjamin] It's not
too long after when he adds

00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.960
the idea of having Schroeder
sit down at a toy piano,

00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:10.840
and play Beethoven.

00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:13.800
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata No. 8 continues]

00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:16.280
-[Charles] I was thumbing
through a music book one day,

00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.000
and I just thought it
would be interesting

00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.240
to show a complicated
musical score

00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.480
in such a simple thing
as a comic strip.

00:13:23.520 --> 00:13:29.680
So I chose Schroeder,
who was just a tiny baby

00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:31.440
in the strip at that time,

00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.720
to be the one who would
be playing the toy piano,

00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.200
and it worked so well
that it became one of the most

00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.360
important themes that has
ever been in the strip.

00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.960
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata No. 8 continues]

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-[Jean] Sparky, my husband,
that's what everyone called him.

00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.320
One of his best friends
was Shermie.

00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.320
Shermie's mother
was a music teacher,

00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.760
and Shermie had to practice.

00:13:56.800 --> 00:14:02.480
So Sparky would have heard
Beethoven as a young boy.

00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.880
And I think that those
things stick in your head.

00:14:05.880 --> 00:14:09.880
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata 8 continues]

00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:14.000
-[Benjamin] He would use music
as a way to access emotions,

00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:16.520
and he would put on music,
and he would say,

00:14:16.560 --> 00:14:18.920
you know, it helps me
feel what I need to feel.

00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.480
Because he would
pour his feelings

00:14:20.520 --> 00:14:22.760
into the strip as he's drawing.

00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.520
Charles Schultz did
describe the drawing

00:14:26.560 --> 00:14:28.280
of the real music notes

00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:32.120
as pretty tedious
work for a cartoonist.

00:14:32.160 --> 00:14:34.640
And I think it was
wanting to get it right.

00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:37.680
As he did the best he could,

00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.720
for someone who
couldn't read music,

00:14:39.760 --> 00:14:42.200
to copy it faithfully
into the strip.

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[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata 8 continues]

00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.120
-[Larry] Charles
M. Schultz' Peanuts

00:14:49.160 --> 00:14:51.520
was the most
syndicated comic strip.

00:14:51.560 --> 00:14:54.040
in the world for 50 years.

00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:59.200
It appeared in over 1700
newspapers in 21 languages.

00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.680
And it was read by more
than 350 million people.

00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:08.440
Schultz, via young Schroder,

00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.120
transmitted his love of
Beethoven to the world.

00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:15.720
[Piano Sonata 8 ends]

00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:26.920
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata 3 plays]

00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.480
-[Steve] My name's
Steve Pinker,

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I am a Professor of Psychology
at Harvard University.

00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.440
And I'm interested in
all aspects of language,

00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:36.280
mind, and human nature.

00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:40.680
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata 3 continues]

00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.080
-[Steve] One of the great
gifts of being a scientific

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psychologist is that every
aspect of life becomes

00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:49.120
so much more interesting,

00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:51.120
because you not
only experience it,

00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.120
but you can step back and
ponder why you're having

00:15:55.160 --> 00:15:56.840
the experience you're having.

00:15:56.880 --> 00:15:57.960
[camera shutter clicks]

00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.920
[Beethoven's Piano
Sonata 3 continues]

00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.320
-[Steve] My own
passion for photography

00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.520
isn't just that it's a hobby,

00:16:06.560 --> 00:16:10.120
but it also ties into my
interest in visual cognition.

00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:12.560
How we see and make
sense of the world,

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how we perceive depth
and color and shape and form.

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And also human aesthetics.

00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:23.760
Why do certain landscapes
look appealing in real life?

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Why do they
sometimes look appealing

00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.320
when you squish them into 2D
and put them in a frame?

00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.960
Why to certain faces
and bodies

00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:35.000
and animals and
objects please us?

00:16:37.400 --> 00:16:40.080
So, as I indulge
in photography,

00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.720
I'm also doing a
bit of psychology,

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tapping my own intuitions
as to what is pleasing,

00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:49.560
and probing myself
as to why that should be.

00:16:53.040 --> 00:16:55.520
I chose the title
Enlightenment Now for my book,

00:16:55.520 --> 00:16:57.040
which made the
case for reason,

00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.400
science, humanism,
and progress,

00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.320
because I was calling for
more Enlightenment ideals now,

00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.360
for a reminder and
avowal of those ideas.

00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.920
The Enlightenment
wasn't an official movement,

00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.440
it doesn't have a creed.

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It doesn't have a starting date
and ending date.

00:17:13.600 --> 00:17:16.440
So it's a loose
connection of related ideals.

00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:20.880
I think of it as the idea that
we ought to use knowledge

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to improve human wellbeing.

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I don't think we live in a
world that's governed

00:17:27.520 --> 00:17:29.160
by Enlightenment values.

00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.280
There's still an awful
lot of autocracy,

00:17:31.320 --> 00:17:33.600
there's a lot of
religious dogma.

00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.880
There's a lot of
authoritarian populism.

00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.520
[chanting]

00:17:39.560 --> 00:17:43.200
-[Steve] So it's a call
for more enlightenment now.

00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.400
[Piano Sonata 3 ends]

00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.880
-[Larry] Beethoven was
the rock star of his day.

00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.880
Everyone recognized
him in the street.

00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.840
And everyone eagerly
anticipated his next work,

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and how it would push
music into the future.

00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.840
[Beethoven's
Symphony 9 plays]

00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:09.560
-[Larry] Monika Brodka
has been called

00:18:09.560 --> 00:18:12.360
the Beethoven of Polish Rock.

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It's not just because of
her immense popularity,

00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:18.640
but because her celebrity

00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.360
has allowed her the
freedom to push boundaries,

00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:24.080
and pursue her own
uncompromising vision.

00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.320
Just as Beethoven did
with his 9th Symphony.

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Beethoven wanted his music
to awaken all of humanity.

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-[Monika] My idea of an artist

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is to make people
question themselves,

00:18:41.040 --> 00:18:42.600
their life, their feelings.

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Is to be a rebel, a bit.

00:18:47.320 --> 00:18:48.160
[Sadza by Brodka]

00:18:48.360 --> 00:18:49.960
♪ You're rolling me
like a joint ♪

00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.840
♪ You're like a
bastard and a father ♪

00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.040
♪ Soot settles

00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:03.960
♪ Eyes glow

00:19:08.040 --> 00:19:09.720
-[Monika] I absolutely
think that music

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can change the world.

00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.240
You can change people's
mood with music.

00:19:15.280 --> 00:19:19.040
So if you can control
people's emotions,

00:19:19.080 --> 00:19:23.960
you can actually,
you rule the world.

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[laughing]

00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:29.120
♪ Now you have something
to start a fire with ♪

00:19:30.840 --> 00:19:37.680
[various instruments playing]

00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.920
-[Monika] I come
from a musical family,

00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.160
related to folk, Polish music,
south of Poland,

00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:45.720
from the mountain area.

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[alphorn blowing]

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-[Monika] I was sent
to a music school,

00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:54.280
not to actually
play classical pieces,

00:19:54.320 --> 00:19:56.200
to learn how to play violin,

00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.120
and to later play in
my father's band

00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.440
as a violin player,
you know,

00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.280
some mountain songs.

00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:07.120
So there was already a
straight plan for me

00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.120
when I was a child,

00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.240
that he really wanted me
to play in the band.

00:20:12.280 --> 00:20:16.800
And I didn't feel attached
to this culture so much,

00:20:16.840 --> 00:20:21.520
I wanted to get rid of
it and be a pop singer,

00:20:21.560 --> 00:20:25.400
and you know,
sing very famous songs

00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:27.440
that are played by the radio,

00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.640
but somehow I couldn't
escape my past.

00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.720
[Beethoven's Symphony 9
Ode to Joy playing]

00:20:34.760 --> 00:20:37.120
-[Larry] The melody of
Beethoven's Ode to Joy,

00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.640
the fourth movement
of his Ninth Symphony,

00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:42.080
was unlike anything
he had ever written.

00:20:42.080 --> 00:20:45.360
He was trying to create a folk
melody that sounded like it

00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.080
had been sung
through the ages,

00:20:47.120 --> 00:20:49.520
something anyone could sing.

00:20:49.560 --> 00:20:52.920
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:54.240
-[Larry] For Beethoven,

00:20:54.280 --> 00:20:57.760
folk music represented
the music of the people.

00:20:57.760 --> 00:21:00.280
The music that was
the most universal,

00:21:00.320 --> 00:21:02.240
and the most sublime.

00:21:02.280 --> 00:21:07.440
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:14.680
♪ All humanity are brothers
Beneath thy gentle wing ♪

00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:19.440
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:25.600
-[Monika] I was surprised how
joyfully naive this piece is,

00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.200
like in the lyrics part.

00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:32.320
There's a lot of rhymes, a
lot of words rhyme together,

00:21:32.360 --> 00:21:38.120
and it sounds very naive
but beautiful, as well.

00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.640
♪ Whoever has created

00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:42.960
♪ Lasting friendship
in thy house ♪

00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:46.320
♪ Or has won elated
A true and loving spouse ♪

00:21:46.360 --> 00:21:49.520
♪ All of those who
embrace one soul ♪

00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:52.320
♪ May join our
song of praise ♪

00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:55.120
♪ Those who can't
No longer whole ♪

00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:58.680
♪ Begone and
change thy ways ♪

00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:04.360
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:22:04.360 --> 00:22:07.560
-[Monika] It was amazing
to watch you conducting,

00:22:07.600 --> 00:22:11.160
like, you're so powerful even
though I saw your back only.

00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.160
-[Keri-Lynn] Well it takes
a bit of power to conduct

00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.280
Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

00:22:15.320 --> 00:22:16.840
-[Monika] Absolutely,
and I'm shocked,

00:22:16.840 --> 00:22:19.240
because, you know,
I perform like this,

00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:20.680
and you perform like this.

00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:21.880
[laughing]

00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.680
But you know, looking
just, you as a figure,

00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:27.920
you know,
looking at your back,

00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:32.600
it's just so much charisma
and so much power.

00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:34.000
Impressive.

00:22:34.040 --> 00:22:35.960
It's my first time ever here!

00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:36.960
-[Keri-Lynn] On the podium.

00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.920
-[Monika] Probably
the last moment

00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:41.800
where I ever stand here.

00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:51.160
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.280
[feet shuffle]

00:23:05.280 --> 00:23:12.200
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement I plays]

00:23:22.320 --> 00:23:24.440
-[Craig] December 25th, 1989,

00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:28.880
Bernstein conducting
Beethoven's 9th.

00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:31.720
It was one of those moments
that you know you you will

00:23:31.760 --> 00:23:33.920
only experience
once in your life.

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:37.240
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:23:37.280 --> 00:23:38.520
-[Craig] And for Lenny,

00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:40.840
it was almost the
culmination of his life.

00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:44.760
[Beethoven't 9th continues]

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:54.360
[cheering]

00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:58.040
-[Craig] It was a very
symbolic moment for him

00:23:58.040 --> 00:24:01.040
that the wall came down.

00:24:01.080 --> 00:24:03.320
Because he always wanted to

00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:05.720
break down barriers
between people.

00:24:05.760 --> 00:24:07.840
He wanted people
to live in peace.

00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.360
He wanted the walls
to be demolished.

00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:20.320
♪ Oh friends

00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:24.000
-[Craig] Of course,
Bernstein being Bernstein,

00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.320
he found some
scholarship that said

00:24:26.360 --> 00:24:28.200
the original Schiller poem

00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:30.680
had the word Freiheit,
instead of Freude.

00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:35.600
And so he went back and
changed the word Freude,

00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.640
which means "joy"
in German,

00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.240
to Freiheit,
which means "freedom".

00:24:41.280 --> 00:24:45.920
♪ Freedom Freedom

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.560
♪ Freedom beautiful
spark of divinity ♪

00:24:48.560 --> 00:24:50.160
♪ daughter of Elysium

00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:53.120
-[Keri-Lynn] He changed
Freude, joy,

00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.760
to Freiheit, freedom.

00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.920
And that was the source of
inspiration for me having

00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:04.760
the idea to sing the
Ode to Joy here in Warsaw,

00:25:04.800 --> 00:25:08.440
and in Berlin, in the
Ukrainian language.

00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:14.080
♪ Oh friends

00:25:14.120 --> 00:25:17.680
♪ Not these sounds

00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.360
-[Keri-Lynn] When you have the
words sung in the language of

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:23.680
this country that is
suffering so much,

00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:26.680
it's all the more powerful.

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:33.000
And we are
changing Freude to Slava,

00:25:33.040 --> 00:25:36.120
because that is glory, and
represents the bravery of this

00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:39.280
incredible nation
and its people.

00:25:39.320 --> 00:25:43.040
♪ Glory beautiful
spark of divinity ♪

00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:46.800
♪ Daughter of Elysium

00:25:46.840 --> 00:25:49.320
♪ Fire-inspired affinity

00:25:49.320 --> 00:25:53.600
♪ To thy radiant
shrine we come ♪

00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.960
♪ Pure magic frees all others

00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.440
♪ Restrained unable to sing

00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:07.440
♪ All humanity are brothers
Beneath thy gentle wing ♪

00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.280
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:26:11.800 --> 00:26:13.160
-[Man] Ok hold
that right here,

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.840
just like that, right?

00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:14.480
-[Larry] Too far.

00:26:14.520 --> 00:26:16.280
-[Man] Too far, ok.

00:26:16.280 --> 00:26:17.960
-[Larry] Go back, no no.

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.680
I would still have it
on the other side

00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:21.160
of that wooden thing.

00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.000
And, yeah that's ok.

00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:25.960
-[Man] I like the fact
it looks like it's...

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:27.000
I think it's fine.

00:26:27.560 --> 00:26:29.400
-[Larry] My name
is Larry Weinstein.

00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:31.960
I actually am the
director of this film.

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.800
And that's what I
do, I make films.

00:26:34.800 --> 00:26:37.200
Mostly about music,
sometimes about war.

00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:42.480
[Beethoven's
Moonlight Sonata plays]

00:26:42.520 --> 00:26:43.920
-[Larry] While
making this film,

00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.920
and you know, a lot of
this film is about war,

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.480
and about the Ukraine war.

00:26:50.520 --> 00:26:52.320
And in the midst of this,

00:26:52.360 --> 00:26:56.720
there's been the
Israeli-Hamas conflict.

00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:02.560
[shouting]

00:27:04.280 --> 00:27:12.440
-[Larry] And yeah, my
sister lived in a Kibbutz,

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:18.160
which was very
very close to Gaza.

00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:24.680
She and her husband were out
for a walk just before the

00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:29.800
missiles went off, and the
Hamas people were on the way

00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:32.120
to her Kibbutz to,

00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:35.600
I guess to kill people
and to take hostages.

00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:38.400
[gunshots]

00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:39.880
-[Larry] And they
encountered my sister,

00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:41.680
and her husband Gadi,

00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:44.040
my sister Judih and
her husband Gadi first.

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:49.320
[distant explosions]

00:27:49.560 --> 00:27:54.680
-[Larry] I saw this text that
Judih had sent to her children

00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:58.080
that there are missiles
being fired overhead,

00:27:58.120 --> 00:28:01.720
and that Judih and Gadi are
facedown in the field

00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:03.760
with missiles over their heads.

00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:08.120
Somebody from the
Kibbutz phoned her,

00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.840
and said "Judih,
you're out in the fields,

00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:12.400
come back to the Kibbutz

00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.040
because you can
be in the safe room."

00:28:14.080 --> 00:28:17.440
And Judih said
"We've been shot.

00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:21.640
My Gadi has been shot,
and he's severely injured."

00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.560
"Severely wounded", I
think was the words.

00:28:23.600 --> 00:28:26.000
and she said, "I've
been wounded too,

00:28:26.040 --> 00:28:28.680
but it's not so serious.

00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.000
So please get
someone to get us."

00:28:31.040 --> 00:28:34.160
Like a medic from the Kibbutz,
they were close to the Kibbutz,

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.200
not knowing the terrorists

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:39.720
were on their way
to the Kibbutz.

00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:42.000
Because the terrorists
came in right away.

00:28:42.040 --> 00:28:45.280
And they started shooting
people and killing them,

00:28:45.320 --> 00:28:47.080
and taking some away,

00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:49.400
kidnapping them
probably to be hostages.

00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:51.000
They were burning their houses

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.520
so that people would
run out from the smoke,

00:28:53.560 --> 00:28:56.360
and then they would shoot
them or abduct them.

00:28:57.360 --> 00:29:00.280
The fact is we don't know
where they are right now.

00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:02.680
We don't know where they are.

00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:07.240
Maybe Judih is
there as a hostage,

00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:10.000
because they
can't find her body.

00:29:10.040 --> 00:29:11.840
And that's kind
of encouraging.

00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:13.760
Oh, they can't find her body.

00:29:13.800 --> 00:29:17.360
But I have to tell you, the
idea of Judih being taken away

00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:21.560
abducted, and being a hostage,

00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:24.600
at the time that the
Hamas people were saying

00:29:24.600 --> 00:29:25.840
we're going to take
our hostages,

00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:28.040
we're going to execute
them one by one,

00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:29.640
that was happening
the same day.

00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:34.160
And we're going to broadcast
those executions to the world.

00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:38.760
This is what they were saying.

00:29:38.800 --> 00:29:41.720
I don't know what to hope for.

00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:49.840
[Gabriela's Pachamama
Meets an Ode plays]

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:07.520
-[Gabriela] As a little
child over the years,

00:30:07.560 --> 00:30:10.240
I grew up hearing
a lot of Peruvian

00:30:10.280 --> 00:30:12.440
music in the household.

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:16.520
I was seeing Peruvians
and Ecuador musicians,

00:30:16.520 --> 00:30:18.640
and Bolivia musicians.

00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.040
With these instruments,
panpipes as tall as I was,

00:30:22.080 --> 00:30:23.960
and quenacho flutes,
and zamponas,

00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.120
and charango guitars.

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.720
And they looked
like my mother.

00:30:26.760 --> 00:30:27.920
They didn't look Mexicano,

00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:29.720
which is the dominant
Latin culture,

00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:31.200
Central American culture.

00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:32.640
They looked Andean,

00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:35.520
and it just informed
my own music making.

00:30:35.560 --> 00:30:38.840
That I was the music I was most
interested in exploring.

00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:42.520
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:44.640
-[Gabriela] The Philadelphia
Orchestra had a project

00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.720
in which they wanted
composers to comment

00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:49.760
on the Beethoven symphonies.

00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:52.920
This was an opportunity
I knew to react

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.360
to Beethoven's Ode to Joy
in an unusual way.

00:30:56.360 --> 00:31:00.360
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.280
-[Gabriela] Pachamama is one
of the most important deities

00:31:05.320 --> 00:31:07.160
of Peruvian mythology

00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.560
and pre-Columbian
Peruvian mythology.

00:31:09.600 --> 00:31:11.560
Pachamama is Mother Earth.

00:31:11.600 --> 00:31:15.240
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.720
-[Gabriela] I love this picture
of him in the upper left corner,

00:31:36.760 --> 00:31:37.800
and there's a lot
of pictures of him

00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:39.560
walking in nature.

00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:42.040
And he would do this
to calm his spirit,

00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:44.240
because he was very political.

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.880
He was really observant
of his society at the time.

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.680
If Beethoven were alive today,

00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.960
I think he would have
been an environmentalist.

00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.440
I think he would have
been a political protester.

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:58.120
I think that he would
have been very invested

00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.360
in the issues of
the climate crisis.

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.360
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:06.160
-[Larry] Beethoven struggled
to understand his place

00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.840
in the natural world,

00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:12.840
how it affected his
life and his art.

00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:15.680
He felt that by transcending
human suffering,

00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:18.080
by communing with nature,

00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:22.520
he might discover
meaning and inspiration.

00:32:22.560 --> 00:32:24.640
-[Man] The flowers
and some fruit--

00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.120
-[Gabriela] I had never
heard of Boondall.

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.120
And when I met my husband,

00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:32.720
he took me to this area on
some of our explorations

00:32:32.760 --> 00:32:36.000
as a dating couple.

00:32:36.040 --> 00:32:38.200
And we made a leap

00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.600
and we bought
a property here in 2015.

00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:46.440
And in the fall of 2017,
the fires started.

00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.640
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.320
-[Gabriela] In 2017,
the Tubbs fire torched

00:32:55.360 --> 00:32:57.720
the Coffey Neighborhood
in Santa Rosa,

00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:01.920
and my husband's family
was evacuated in Napa.

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:05.840
2019, the evacuations hit the
coastline for the first time,

00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.560
2020 millions of
acres were burned

00:33:08.560 --> 00:33:10.960
in dry lightning strikes.

00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.760
Even the smaller fires
that were happening,

00:33:12.760 --> 00:33:15.320
a neighbor of ours
died two houses

00:33:15.360 --> 00:33:16.880
down the street from us.

00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:21.120
[Pachamama
Meets an Ode continues]

00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.680
-[Gabriela] When were
the seeds of the crisis,

00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:25.000
planted even?

00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:27.080
And to really understand how
we got to this mess that we're

00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:29.240
in today, you got to
go back centuries.

00:33:29.280 --> 00:33:31.280
And once you start going
down that rabbit hole,

00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:34.200
you realize that this
began with colonization.

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:36.000
-[Gabriela] Beethoven lived
during the time when Europe,

00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:38.840
he's from Germany, was
able to become very wealthy

00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:40.320
because they colonized.

00:33:40.320 --> 00:33:42.800
They colonized other parts of
the world that we sometimes

00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:44.240
call the Global South.

00:33:44.280 --> 00:33:47.520
So Latin America,
and Asia, and Africa.

00:33:47.560 --> 00:33:50.120
-[Gabriela] Europe was
able to enrich itself,

00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:51.920
but it came at the expense.

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:56.040
And we went into this mode
of thinking about endless

00:33:56.080 --> 00:33:57.840
economic growth,
and over- consumption.

00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:00.840
My God, this goes back years.

00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.760
-[Gabriela] Now, it's not that
he was responsible for this.

00:34:03.800 --> 00:34:08.120
But in his era, we planted the
seeds for the climate crisis

00:34:08.160 --> 00:34:09.080
that we have now.

00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:10.320
I think he would be horrified.

00:34:10.560 --> 00:34:13.320
-[Gabriela] The Ode to Joy
was happening as the seeds for

00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:14.680
this crisis were planted.

00:34:14.720 --> 00:34:16.360
What would
Beethoven think about that,

00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.920
if he could come to life
and see what has happened?

00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:20.360
I think the words
to the Ode to Joy

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.320
would mean something
different to him.

00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:25.280
[in Ukrainian]
♪ Glory glory

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.280
♪ Glory glory

00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:30.000
♪ Glory beautiful
spark of divinity ♪

00:34:30.040 --> 00:34:32.920
♪ Daughter of Elysium

00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.880
♪ Fire-inspired affinity

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.400
♪ To thy radiant
shrine we come ♪

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:42.120
♪ Pure magic frees all others

00:34:42.160 --> 00:34:45.400
♪ Restrained unable to sing

00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:51.520
♪ All humanity are brothers
beneath thy gentle wing ♪

00:34:51.560 --> 00:34:53.840
-[Gabriela] Brotherhood
is a big concept,

00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:55.920
it means can you get
over your own biases

00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:58.560
about certain cultures,
and groups of people?

00:34:58.600 --> 00:35:00.640
We need a moment
to take that in,

00:35:00.680 --> 00:35:03.440
you have to rewire everything
you've ever been taught.

00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:06.640
And I think the crisis has
been really hard for people to

00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:08.040
get their minds around.

00:35:08.080 --> 00:35:10.080
How do I go on with my
day to day existence?

00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:12.120
♪ Whoever has created

00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:15.520
♪ Lasting friendship
in thy house ♪

00:35:15.520 --> 00:35:21.920
♪ Or has won elated
A true and loving spouse ♪

00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.760
♪ All of those
who embrace one soul ♪

00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:27.880
♪ May join our
song of praise ♪

00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.680
♪ Those who can't
no longer whole ♪

00:35:30.720 --> 00:35:34.640
♪ Begone and
change thy ways ♪

00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.440
-[Steve] One question
that you could ask about the

00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:41.640
Enlightenment is that
the ideas sound perfectly

00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:44.280
congenial and
plausible, you know,

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.800
reason, science, and humanism.

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.400
But could it possibly work?

00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:52.720
You can embrace
any ideas you want.

00:35:52.720 --> 00:35:55.240
The question is
will they actually make

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:56.920
the world a better place?

00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:00.480
And 250 years later, I think
we can say that they have.

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.920
We live more than twice
as long as people did

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:06.840
in the 18th century, on average.

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.320
Life expectancy at
birth was maybe 30-35.

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:12.840
At the time that
Beethoven wrote,

00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:15.560
probably 90% of the world
lived in what we would today

00:36:15.600 --> 00:36:17.080
call extreme poverty.

00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:19.160
Now it's less than 9%.

00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:23.280
In Beethoven's time, war
between great powers was a

00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.960
constant, they're
just always fighting.

00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:30.680
And now we consider a war to
be something extraordinary,

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:32.960
anomalous, something
that you try to end

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:34.520
as soon as possible.

00:36:34.560 --> 00:36:37.520
In Beethoven's time, there
was slavery throughout the

00:36:37.560 --> 00:36:39.800
Americas, and in many
parts of the world.

00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:45.400
Now, slavery is
illegal everywhere on Earth.

00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.080
In Beethoven's time, probably
a third of children died

00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:52.480
before they
reached adolescence.

00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:54.280
Now, at least in
developed countries,

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.640
the rate of child mortality is
a third of a percentage point.

00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:02.520
A large percentage of
women died in childbirth.

00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:05.680
Now, that is a rare tragedy.

00:37:07.160 --> 00:37:09.520
-[Barack Obama] If you had to
choose any moment in history

00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:16.960
in which to be born, and you
didn't know in advance whether

00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:19.200
you were going to
be male or female,

00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:21.600
what country you
are going to be from,

00:37:21.640 --> 00:37:26.960
what your status was,
you'd choose right now,

00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.480
because the world has
never been healthier,

00:37:29.520 --> 00:37:32.760
or wealthier, or
better educated,

00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:35.880
or, in many
ways, more tolerant,

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.880
or less violent
than it is today.

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.360
-[Steve] We have
made the world better.

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:43.680
Hard to appreciate, because
we're so aware of all the

00:37:43.720 --> 00:37:45.400
things that go wrong.

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.240
And basically the news is a
machine for delivering to your

00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:54.600
screen, or doorstep, all the
worst things that happened in

00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:56.800
the last few hours.

00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:59.040
It's a highly
non-random sample.

00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:02.240
When things go well,
as they so often do,

00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.040
when someone
dies in their 80s,

00:38:04.080 --> 00:38:09.840
when someone doesn't starve,
when a city isn't destroyed by

00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:11.960
a war, we don't call it news.

00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:15.000
But it really
ought to be news,

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.520
and because the well-being
of our lives depends on it.

00:38:21.640 --> 00:38:23.880
-[Man] So going through
this, and at the same time,

00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:27.040
making a film on Beethoven
must be a real challenge.

00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:29.760
-[Larry] Yeah,
it's a challenge.

00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.080
Like functioning through
the day is a challenge,

00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:33.320
of course.

00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:36.880
And because I'm
working with the RCMP,

00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:40.000
and because I'm working
with people from the Canadian

00:38:40.040 --> 00:38:42.520
government, and because
they're connecting to the

00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:45.720
Israeli government, and
because my family is dealing

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.000
with the FBI, I'm getting
calls about "where's your

00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:52.280
sister's house
exactly, on the Kibbutz?

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.080
Please communicate to Israel.

00:38:54.120 --> 00:38:56.320
Please talk to us in Ottawa."

00:38:56.360 --> 00:39:01.000
And I'm also trying to
communicate to my nephew and

00:39:01.040 --> 00:39:03.040
niece in Israel
and in Singapore--

00:39:03.080 --> 00:39:04.400
-[Larry] Should
we go somewhere?

00:39:04.520 --> 00:39:07.120
-[Larry] And, you know, I'm
having to tell people that I

00:39:07.160 --> 00:39:10.320
was avoiding telling,
and I start crying.

00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:12.120
[laughing]

00:39:12.120 --> 00:39:13.920
It's like this
ridiculous thing.

00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:17.840
And it's like, breathless,
and I'm exhausted.

00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:19.440
I'm exhausted.

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.880
And then I can't sleep
because I'm afraid if I sleep

00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:24.000
I'm going to miss news.

00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.040
So that's what's
been happening.

00:39:26.080 --> 00:39:27.320
That didn't answer
your question, though.

00:39:27.680 --> 00:39:29.400
-[Ali] Oh, shit
it's happening.

00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:30.440
-[Larry] Oh, shit.

00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:32.160
Okay, the call's happening
and we don't have our--

00:39:32.200 --> 00:39:33.800
-[Ali] Are you ready?

00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:35.280
-[Larry] Almost.

00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.160
Just a second.

00:39:37.200 --> 00:39:38.160
-[Woman] Hi Ali.

00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:39.280
-[Ali] Hi.

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:40.960
-[Woman] We're just
waiting for clearance,

00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:43.680
so in the mean time I'm
going to call the Minister,

00:39:43.720 --> 00:39:45.000
and get her on the line.

00:39:45.040 --> 00:39:45.920
-[Ali] Ok great.

00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:50.880
-[Larry] For weeks now, we've
been told that Melanie Joly,

00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:54.680
the Minister of Global Affairs
Canada wanted to talk to us,

00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:56.200
that we were a priority.

00:39:56.240 --> 00:39:57.480
-[Larry] The
call's happening now.

00:39:57.520 --> 00:39:59.560
In fact, they're
already calling.

00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:02.080
-[Larry] And I'm a little bit
cynical about politicians

00:40:02.120 --> 00:40:03.640
in these situations.

00:40:03.640 --> 00:40:05.640
But maybe they have
some information.

00:40:05.640 --> 00:40:07.200
All we want is information.

00:40:07.240 --> 00:40:09.120
We don't want
shoulders to cry on,

00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:10.520
which keeps happening.

00:40:10.560 --> 00:40:12.160
We don't even want
social services.

00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.240
Ali's still on
hold, she's saying.

00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:19.320
It's sort of like our first
chance to talk to someone

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.720
who has any power at all.

00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.640
Whether that's true, that
they have power or not.

00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:27.000
[phone beeps]

00:40:27.040 --> 00:40:27.640
-[Melanie] Hello.

00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:28.240
-[Ali] Hi.

00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:29.000
-[Larry] Hello.

00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:29.960
-[Ali] Dad, can you hear her?

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.920
-[Larry] Yes, I can hear.

00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:32.800
-[Melanie] Hi Larry.

00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:35.240
-[Larry] Hello, is
this Madame Joly?

00:40:35.240 --> 00:40:36.040
-[Ali] That's Melanie Joly.

00:40:36.080 --> 00:40:37.320
-[Larry] Oh hello, hi.

00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.240
-[Melanie] Here's the
information we have,

00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:45.880
regarding your sister, Larry,
and your aunt, Ali.

00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.040
We are considering her
as a missing person.

00:40:49.080 --> 00:40:52.760
I can't provide you any
confirmation that she's

00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.440
part of the hostages or not.

00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:57.680
I don't have that information.

00:40:57.720 --> 00:41:00.160
So there are 200 hostages,

00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:02.840
there are
negotiations happening.

00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:07.360
What we know also is that,
and that's for you privately,

00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.080
it's not for
public conception,

00:41:09.120 --> 00:41:12.360
but we know that
Hamas has hostages.

00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.040
But we know that there are

00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:17.840
other groups
that have hostages.

00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:18.880
-[Larry] Oh.

00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.840
-[Melanie] So that's
the issue also.

00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.440
The different hostages
are not necessarily

00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:26.400
with all the same group.

00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:27.840
-[Ali] And obviously
we have hope

00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:29.440
that she might still be alive.

00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.600
But it's so confusing.

00:41:31.640 --> 00:41:35.640
-[Larry] What can Canada do,
what do you think can be done?

00:41:35.680 --> 00:41:40.320
-[Melanie] Well, my concern
is definitely of course

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:41.520
the release of hostages,

00:41:41.560 --> 00:41:43.720
and Canadians
getting out of Gaza.

00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.320
I'm concerned about
the escalation also.

00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:47.520
I'm really concerned about it.

00:41:47.560 --> 00:41:48.120
-[Larry] Yeah.

00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:49.560
-[Ali] It just feels...

00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:54.320
It just feels like obviously
the roots of all of this is

00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:57.080
islamophobia,
and anti-semitism,

00:41:57.120 --> 00:41:59.720
and the complication of
that part of the world,

00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:03.160
it like goes on forever, it's
not just since October 7th,

00:42:03.160 --> 00:42:06.640
but Netanyahu, and what
he stood for before this,

00:42:06.680 --> 00:42:08.560
but certainly what
he's doing right now,

00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:15.840
I've never, in my entire life,
felt like I had to be afraid

00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:21.600
because I was a Jewish person,
or feel worried that I was

00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:23.000
in danger because of that.

00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:24.600
And for the first
time in my life,

00:42:24.640 --> 00:42:27.400
it feels as if we've
just gone back in time.

00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:32.200
And I guess I just wonder,
what is the firmest stand that

00:42:32.240 --> 00:42:34.320
Canada can take with Israel?

00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.440
Like can you actually
denounce their actions,

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.440
and let Israel know that
they're essentially fucking

00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:43.000
things up for everyone
all around the world,

00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:44.760
and causing death and pain

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.320
and suffering all around
the world right now?

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.240
-[Melanie] Mhmm.

00:42:49.240 --> 00:42:56.600
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:03.040
-[Man] Beethoven is struggle,
the struggle for peace,

00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:04.760
for fulfillment of spirit.

00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:09.680
For serenity and
triumphant joy.

00:43:09.720 --> 00:43:13.560
He achieved it in his music.

00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:16.080
Somehow it must
be possible for us

00:43:16.120 --> 00:43:19.800
to learn from his
music by hearing it.

00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:21.200
Though not hearing it,

00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:24.040
but listening to it
with all our power

00:43:24.040 --> 00:43:26.480
of attention
and concentration.

00:43:26.520 --> 00:43:31.280
Then, perhaps, we can grow
into something worthy of being

00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:33.720
called the human race.

00:43:34.120 --> 00:43:39.480
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:43:48.680 --> 00:43:49.920
-[Larry] Bernstein hated that

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.120
the Berlin Wall
had ever existed,

00:43:53.160 --> 00:43:55.160
that humankind
could somehow

00:43:55.200 --> 00:43:58.160
be divided by barriers.

00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:01.120
And now there was
so much joyousness.

00:44:01.160 --> 00:44:03.880
People could see what
the possibilities were.

00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.120
Even though Bernstein
was very ill,

00:44:08.160 --> 00:44:10.520
and had only a
few months to live,

00:44:10.560 --> 00:44:12.920
he pushed
himself to his limit.

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.920
Because it seemed that
this was the beginning

00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.160
of a greater humanity.

00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:19.600
That this was going
to be a better planet.

00:44:19.640 --> 00:44:26.120
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:44:28.200 --> 00:44:30.000
-[Steve] Really is
overcome with a feeling.

00:44:30.040 --> 00:44:31.880
-[Rebecca] Oh yeah.

00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:35.720
To live this music
your whole life,

00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.280
and know your end is near.

00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:41.440
-[Steve] Had he been diagnosed
at that point, did he know?

00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:42.520
-[Rebecca] Oh yeah.

00:44:42.520 --> 00:44:43.320
-[Steve] So he's doing this,

00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:46.120
knowing that his
days are numbered?

00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:47.720
-[Rebecca] Yeah.

00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:54.240
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:44:55.560 --> 00:44:58.160
-[Craig] We were all very
concerned about his health

00:44:58.200 --> 00:45:00.000
at that time in his life.

00:45:00.040 --> 00:45:02.120
I was in the hall
for the concert.

00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:07.320
I came running down to be
here when he came offstage.

00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.480
[clapping]

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.960
-[Craig] And he leaned
against the consort here,

00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:17.800
because he was completely
spent and exhausted.

00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:21.280
There's a famous photo of us,
me looking up at him,

00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:22.960
and him looking down.

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.760
And you can see how
spent and exhausted he is.

00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:29.280
And that's little me here.

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:30.400
This is me.

00:45:30.680 --> 00:45:36.320
And I'm actually in awe of
what had just taken place.

00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:42.680
-[Leonard] I am living through
a historical moment

00:45:42.720 --> 00:45:50.600
and the most
unforgettable Christmas day

00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:53.440
in my long, long, long life.

00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:59.320
[clapping]

00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:04.000
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:06.600
-[Craig] And then
after the concert,

00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:08.720
it was time to go
back to the west.

00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:11.440
And Lenny, we were in
the car and he says,

00:46:11.480 --> 00:46:15.680
I really want to go and
touch the Berlin Wall.

00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:19.520
[banging]

00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:26.160
-[Franz] My parents asked me

00:46:26.200 --> 00:46:27.680
whether we want
to go to the wall

00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:29.880
and to chop some pieces out.

00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:31.680
So I took my ski goggles,

00:46:31.720 --> 00:46:34.080
which I bought a couple of
years ago in Czechoslovakia.

00:46:34.120 --> 00:46:35.800
And we went to the wall

00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.680
and start chopping
pieces out of the wall,

00:46:37.720 --> 00:46:39.400
and as we did
a couple of days before.

00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:43.080
And suddenly there was
a lady standing next to us

00:46:43.120 --> 00:46:44.280
and saying look,

00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:46.440
there's a guy coming that
looks like Leonard Bernstein,

00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:47.680
and Bernstein
was coming and said

00:46:47.720 --> 00:46:49.280
"I am Leonard Bernstein".

00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.680
-[Craig] There was a young
boy by the name of Franz,

00:46:54.720 --> 00:46:58.520
and he was holding
a hammer and chisel,

00:46:58.560 --> 00:47:00.120
and they recognize Bernstein,

00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:01.520
they had just been at home

00:47:01.520 --> 00:47:03.800
watching the
concert on television.

00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:05.400
-[Franz] Leonard
then was asking,

00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:07.320
"Can you chop out
a piece of the wall?"

00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.400
And my father handed over the
hammer and the chizel

00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.720
and the said
"Selbst is der mann",

00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:11.720
which means something like

00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:13.560
"There's nothing more
than do it yourself".

00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.160
He got the chisel
and he got the hammer

00:47:16.200 --> 00:47:17.240
and then he's like starting

00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.200
chopping the pieces
out of the wall.

00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.360
-[Franz] That's the
hammer and that the chisel

00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:25.760
Bernstein was using.

00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:27.360
-[Craig] Yeah.

00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.280
-[Franz] My father still
kept it in the cellar.

00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:31.280
-[Craid] Looks great.

00:47:31.520 --> 00:47:32.480
-[Franz] It wasn't used
in the last 35 years.

00:47:32.520 --> 00:47:34.840
[laughing]

00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.360
-[Craig] It was
a time of just joy.

00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:42.160
People were very joyful.

00:47:43.720 --> 00:47:44.800
-[Franz] And at this time,

00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.280
Leonard Bernstein
I think was excited

00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:49.480
by bringing people together,

00:47:49.520 --> 00:47:51.920
to see also a
chance for Europe,

00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:53.480
potentially even beyond,

00:47:53.520 --> 00:47:55.600
that this continent
and the world is

00:47:55.640 --> 00:47:56.880
coming closer
to each other,

00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.720
and that this Western-Eastern
part will fall down,

00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:03.000
and will people will live
definitely with each other.

00:48:03.040 --> 00:48:07.120
In freedom,
but also with more joy.

00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:11.480
[music fades]

00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:21.880
[Bethoven's
String Quartet 3 plays]

00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:45.400
-[Woman] We're in
Santa Rosa, California, and--

00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:48.680
-[Girl] There's a
statue of Snoopy and...

00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:50.800
-[Woman] Charlie Brown.

00:48:53.240 --> 00:48:58.840
The creator lived here,
and yeah, there's a museum,

00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.960
and there's an
ice skating rink.

00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.080
-[Man] Yeah, he was
a big part of Santa Rosa,

00:49:05.080 --> 00:49:09.440
I mean, I always read
the comic strips, always.

00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:10.840
-[Woman 2] And his
comic strip, Peanuts,

00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:12.640
is a reflection of his life.

00:49:12.680 --> 00:49:15.440
-[Man 2] His drawings
reflected a down-to-earth

00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.600
sort of comic strip
that didn't take on

00:49:17.640 --> 00:49:19.320
worldly sort of subjects,

00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.280
but just in the simplicity
of the philosophy

00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.440
was the beauty of what
he did on a daily basis.

00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:28.120
He made you think,
but in a child-like--

00:49:28.160 --> 00:49:31.440
You could see through to
the heart fo the matter.

00:49:33.200 --> 00:49:34.720
-[Benjamin] Charles Schultz
never would have claimed

00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.520
to be a poet
or a philosopher,

00:49:37.560 --> 00:49:39.320
certainly not
anything like that.

00:49:39.799 --> 00:49:43.840
But you can't help, as someone
who really loves the strip,

00:49:43.841 --> 00:49:46.999
you can't help but feel the
poetry of some of these

00:49:47.001 --> 00:49:49.899
and to be touched by
some of these insights

00:49:51.670 --> 00:49:53.960
and, yes, even some
of the philosophy

00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:56.080
that he displays within the strip.

00:49:56.120 --> 00:50:03.000
[Bethoven's String
Quartet 3 continues]

00:50:03.200 --> 00:50:07.840
♪ O freunde

00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:11.680
-[Larry] "Joy, beautiful
spark of divinity."

00:50:11.720 --> 00:50:13.080
Spark!

00:50:13.080 --> 00:50:13.800
Sparky.

00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.400
[laughing]

00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:17.800
-[Jean] But what's Tochter?

00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:18.800
I took a year--

00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:19.920
-[Larry] Daughter.

00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:22.880
Daughter Elysium, which
means daughter of paradise,

00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.080
of utopia.

00:50:25.120 --> 00:50:27.280
It's interesting, because
it's not a Christian thing.

00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:28.720
It's just about divinity,

00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:30.800
and when Beethoven
was writing this piece,

00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.920
he was studying
Eastern religions.

00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:36.520
Like he was thinking
about mankind.

00:50:36.560 --> 00:50:38.200
Even though he
was born Catholic,

00:50:38.240 --> 00:50:40.640
he never went to churches,
he never crossed himself,

00:50:40.640 --> 00:50:42.000
he never confessed.

00:50:42.040 --> 00:50:44.920
All he was interested
in was the truth.

00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:48.400
And Beethoven said I'm
gonna write a piece of music

00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.720
that encompasses
my youthful ideals,

00:50:51.720 --> 00:50:53.920
and I'm sick, and I'm old,

00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:56.120
and he probably knew
he was going to die soon.

00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:58.920
And yet, he was going
to embrace humanity.

00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:01.120
It's very beautiful,
it was very moving,

00:51:01.160 --> 00:51:04.200
I practically cry
when I think about him,

00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:05.800
and what he was doing.

00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:06.960
And somehow when I was reading

00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.640
a lot of the Peanuts
comic strips,

00:51:09.680 --> 00:51:12.240
I feel this vulnerability
in humanity.

00:51:12.240 --> 00:51:13.560
And I start,

00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:16.080
and Charlie Brown's
crooked little smile,

00:51:16.120 --> 00:51:18.680
and I start to
feel emotion again,

00:51:18.680 --> 00:51:21.000
that I do and I hear that
piece of music by Beethoven.

00:51:21.040 --> 00:51:23.000
So I love all that.

00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:27.560
-[Lucy] You and your
stupid ol' Beethoven!

00:51:27.600 --> 00:51:29.760
By golly, I'll show you.

00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.600
[banging]

00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:33.560
-[Lucy] There!

00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:38.000
[Beethoven's 9th
Symphony playing]

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.400
-[Larry] Beethoven could
never have imagined how

00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:42.680
his music might
affect audiences,

00:51:42.720 --> 00:51:45.040
or who might
appropriate his music

00:51:45.040 --> 00:51:46.840
for their own causes.

00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:50.000
[Beethoven's 9th continues]

00:51:50.040 --> 00:51:52.680
-[Larry] The 9th was
Hitler's favorite symphony,

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:56.120
so he insisted that it
be played on his birthday.

00:51:56.160 --> 00:51:58.200
It's hard to imagine
what he thought

00:51:58.240 --> 00:52:00.440
Shiller and Beethoven meant

00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.160
when they declared that
all men are brothers.

00:52:05.080 --> 00:52:07.320
-[Gabriela] I think
Beethoven would be horrified

00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:11.600
that Hitler loved this piece.

00:52:11.640 --> 00:52:15.200
The anthem quality
of the Ode to Joy

00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:19.400
has been used
and abused over time.

00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:21.880
But I think he would also
be amazed that people

00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:23.280
as far away as China,

00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.280
the student protesters
in Tiananmen Square,

00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:27.160
were singing this.

00:52:27.200 --> 00:52:30.000
And I think he'd be amazed
at the anthem quality

00:52:30.040 --> 00:52:31.560
spoke to different languages.

00:52:31.600 --> 00:52:33.920
♪ Bela e celeste--

00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:36.680
-[Gabriela] And the fact that
has been translated so often.

00:52:36.720 --> 00:52:40.120
♪ Centelha da divindade

00:52:40.160 --> 00:52:43.200
-[Gabriela] I think he will be
amused and how it's been used

00:52:43.200 --> 00:52:45.880
in popular culture,
Die Hard, and commercials,

00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.400
and oh my goodness.

00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:49.200
-[Gabriela] I don't know if you
guys will recognize this movie,

00:52:49.240 --> 00:52:51.200
Die Hard,
which was like super,

00:52:51.240 --> 00:52:52.240
you know it?

00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:54.440
It was like super popular
in the 80s and 90s.

00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:56.640
Let's watch a little
excerpt from this.

00:52:56.680 --> 00:52:57.800
-[Man] It's gonna go!

00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:03.000
[Ode to Joy
playing over buzzing]

00:53:03.040 --> 00:53:04.200
-[Gabriela] You hear it?

00:53:04.240 --> 00:53:16.360
[Ode to Joy
playing over buzzing]

00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:18.280
-[Gabriela] It's also been
used in commercials.

00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:19.480
Let's go to the top right.

00:53:19.520 --> 00:53:20.960
[singing in the tune
of Ode to Joy]

00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.200
♪ Drink milk long life
Taste that fresh milk ♪

00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:27.800
♪ Best that Cole
has ever tasted ♪

00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:29.360
-[Gabriela] And
then this last one,

00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:30.560
if you go into YouTube,

00:53:30.600 --> 00:53:35.760
and you Google
Ode to Joy Flash Mob.

00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:39.280
For some reason, Ode to Joy
is super popular with flash mobs

00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:40.560
around the world.

00:53:40.600 --> 00:53:43.080
I think this is Spain.

00:53:43.120 --> 00:53:47.560
[more instruments join in]

00:53:53.160 --> 00:53:57.600
-[Monika] Music is and was
always the widest medium

00:53:57.640 --> 00:54:00.320
to get to people.

00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:03.680
It's an idyllic idea
to compose a piece

00:54:03.720 --> 00:54:08.800
that make people gather
and feel the solidarity,

00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:10.000
feel the connection,

00:54:10.040 --> 00:54:15.760
and to create classical
piece that has the

00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:18.760
element of a pop or rock song,

00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:21.480
that could actually be
sung in the stadiums.

00:54:21.520 --> 00:54:23.360
[Ode to Joy being sung]

00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:26.240
-[Monika] It's one of
the only classical pieces

00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:28.640
that if you ask different
people on the street,

00:54:28.680 --> 00:54:30.400
everybody knows it.

00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:32.680
So he achieved this goal.

00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.360
It's one of the only
examples in classical music

00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.480
that people know so well.

00:54:39.520 --> 00:54:42.080
[Ode to Joy continues]

00:54:42.120 --> 00:54:45.720
-[Monika] Definitely
have this pop hook.

00:54:45.720 --> 00:54:48.760
[sings Ode to Joy's tune]

00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:50.280
-[Monika] You know,
it could be a ringtone.

00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.800
[phone ringing]

00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.800
-[Monika] It's probably every
artist's dream to have

00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:03.600
such a piece in their
discography, yeah.

00:55:03.640 --> 00:55:09.840
[playing Ode to Joy]

00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.040
-[Man] I think music is
a really powerful weapon.

00:55:14.080 --> 00:55:18.520
Even during this
horrible times of war,

00:55:18.560 --> 00:55:21.760
it's about we still have hope.

00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:26.560
[continuing Ode to Joy]

00:55:26.600 --> 00:55:28.760
-[Man 2] Of course
music's changed the world.

00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:34.840
It's an instrument to express
everything we can feel.

00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:39.040
Now we are speaking to
the world without words.

00:55:39.080 --> 00:55:42.400
[speaking another language]

00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:50.480
[flute playing]

00:55:50.520 --> 00:55:55.320
[speaking another language]

00:55:55.320 --> 00:56:02.440
[piccolo playing
to a metronome]

00:56:04.640 --> 00:56:09.240
[Keri-Lynn muttering]

00:56:17.680 --> 00:56:21.120
-[Keri-Lynn] With all of the
oppression that is happening,

00:56:21.160 --> 00:56:23.080
that we thought
would never happen,

00:56:23.120 --> 00:56:27.120
the repeat Naziism,
and the Soviet Empire,

00:56:27.160 --> 00:56:29.480
it's all come back to life.

00:56:29.520 --> 00:56:31.160
And we keep
saying to each other,

00:56:31.160 --> 00:56:34.720
this is still happening,
how could this be happening?

00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:39.040
You can't eradicate evil
from the world, you know?

00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:46.000
So music is there
as a symbol of love.

00:56:46.040 --> 00:56:51.440
It's a vehicle for us to make
humanity a better place.

00:56:52.240 --> 00:56:57.760
-[Rebecca] Maybe what he was
trying to do was to move us

00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.160
with beauty, you know?

00:57:00.200 --> 00:57:05.320
His genius to create this
overwhelming aesthetic,

00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:10.800
emotional, inspiring experience
with the right message.

00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:18.240
[thunder crashing
over Ode to Joy]

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:20.040
-[Larry] Yeah, you
know, it's funny,

00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:22.960
we as filmmakers
often are like voyeurs,

00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:29.560
we watch things, and we're
not necessarily affected.

00:57:29.600 --> 00:57:32.280
My films have been
about classical music,

00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:33.560
most of them.

00:57:33.600 --> 00:57:36.280
It comes from a deep
interest in that music,

00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:40.680
and in those personalities.

00:57:40.720 --> 00:57:43.680
But I'm removed.

00:57:43.720 --> 00:57:45.680
This is different.

00:57:45.720 --> 00:57:48.080
And this idea of
changing perspective,

00:57:48.120 --> 00:57:49.760
and being immersed
in something,

00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:53.160
which directly relates to
what we're talking about,

00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:55.400
is new for me.

00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:05.680
[slow dramatic music]

00:58:05.720 --> 00:58:09.600
-[Larry] I've done a number
of films that intertwine music

00:58:09.640 --> 00:58:11.960
into extra musical things,

00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.400
some medical related
things like Ravel's Brain,

00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:16.920
about the death of Ravel.

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.440
But I did a number of things,
like where I touched upon war.

00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.640
My film on Shostakovich is
called The War Symphonies,

00:58:25.680 --> 00:58:27.920
and it has to do
with World War II,

00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:30.240
but it also has to do
with the war with Stalin.

00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:33.400
[Shostakovich
Symphony 4 playing]

00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:42.600
-[Larry] The last film
I finished was Propaganda,

00:58:42.640 --> 00:58:46.960
The Art of Selling Lies,
it was overtly about politics.

00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:49.680
[quick dramatic music]

00:58:49.720 --> 00:58:51.200
-[Larry] And then this.

00:58:51.200 --> 00:58:53.360
This, which we knew, would
have some political content,

00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:58.080
but now it's taking a turn
because of the recent events.

00:58:58.120 --> 00:59:10.600
[chanting]

00:59:13.640 --> 00:59:15.160
[cheering]

00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:21.760
[Brodka's Utrata playing]

00:59:25.080 --> 00:59:27.600
-[Monika] In my art, my work,

00:59:27.640 --> 00:59:31.240
there are some things
about religion,

00:59:31.240 --> 00:59:33.720
which are appealing for me,

00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:39.560
because in folk culture,
there is a lot of pagan fests,

00:59:39.600 --> 00:59:43.160
and a lot of
weird celebrations.

00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:46.600
[Brodka's Utrata continues]

00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:52.360
-[Monika] To have people
gathered in one cause together,

00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.640
singing together,
or praying together.

00:59:55.680 --> 01:00:00.800
It's something that
I also do in my work.

01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:05.160
♪ I've been bitten by
the data-hungry virus ♪

01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:09.200
♪ It circulates through
a system of channels ♪

01:00:09.240 --> 01:00:13.600
♪ I lost what was uploaded

01:00:13.640 --> 01:00:19.120
♪ The sudden destruction
turns your stomach ♪

01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:20.680
-[Monika] I exchange
this energy

01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:22.360
with people on concerts.

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.720
♪ The frame. The frame
is not the same ♪

01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:30.000
-[Monika] And my shows
are very much theatrical,

01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:34.000
and like, if you go to a
mass it's one big theatre,

01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:36.400
you know, you have an
altar, which is a stage,

01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:39.080
and you have
some weird smoke,

01:00:39.120 --> 01:00:41.880
and people drink
different things,

01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.480
and then they watch it,

01:00:43.520 --> 01:00:46.880
and then, you know, like,
it's a directed show,

01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:49.600
every time is the
same, you know?

01:00:49.640 --> 01:00:51.320
Jesus was a rockstar, come on.

01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:52.360
[laughing]

01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:56.240
♪ I've been bitten
by the data-hungry virus ♪

01:00:56.280 --> 01:00:59.040
[cheering]

01:00:59.080 --> 01:01:02.440
-[Monika] I mean, it's
not a cocky way to say,

01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:03.800
like, if you think about it,

01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:08.160
like, you know,
God created the world,

01:01:08.200 --> 01:01:14.560
have his own "wyznawca",
followers, yeah.

01:01:14.600 --> 01:01:16.880
I have my own followers
on Instagram as well.

01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:18.200
[laughing]

01:01:18.240 --> 01:01:20.000
And on the concerts,

01:01:20.040 --> 01:01:23.600
but this was also
a huge responsibility,

01:01:23.640 --> 01:01:25.320
you know, on the artist,

01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:29.440
to be that person
that people follow.

01:01:31.120 --> 01:01:35.480
And they respect
what we have to say,

01:01:35.520 --> 01:01:39.000
and they treat us,
somehow, as authorities.

01:01:39.040 --> 01:01:44.560
And it's also
very intimidating.

01:01:47.040 --> 01:01:48.200
[birds chirping]

01:01:48.280 --> 01:01:51.280
[Beethoven's 9th symphony
Movement I playing]

01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:54.680
-[Gabriela] I met John and
Helen Meyer about 15 years ago,

01:01:54.720 --> 01:01:57.320
and they were so excited
to meet me because John

01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:00.600
already had an idea to
work on hearing aids,

01:02:00.640 --> 01:02:03.520
specifically for musicians.

01:02:03.560 --> 01:02:07.120
And I have been privileged
for several years to be

01:02:07.160 --> 01:02:08.960
one of their test subjects.

01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:10.840
-[Man] Alright, how's that?

01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:12.320
The voice should be
a little bit more clear.

01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:13.720
-[Gabriela] But now
I'm hearing echo.

01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:14.600
Is there an echo?

01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:16.560
Not echo, I'm
hearing reverberance.

01:02:16.600 --> 01:02:18.040
-[Man] There's
reverberance in the room.

01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:19.440
-[Gabriela] It's the
first time I'm hearing it.

01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:20.680
-[Man] Ok that's very good.

01:02:20.720 --> 01:02:21.840
-[John] I can
kill the reverb--

01:02:22.080 --> 01:02:23.280
-[Gabriela] I've never
heard the reverberance before.

01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:24.080
[clap]

01:02:24.080 --> 01:02:24.960
-[John] Count it out.

01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:26.280
-[Gabriela] Yeah.

01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:28.080
I don't usually
get to hear that.

01:02:28.080 --> 01:02:30.480
-[Helen] I'm Helen Meyer,
this is John Meyer.

01:02:30.520 --> 01:02:34.680
We run a company
called Meyer Sound,

01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:38.520
and we design and manufacture
professional sound equipment.

01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:41.160
[Beethoven's 9th
movement II playing]

01:02:41.200 --> 01:02:42.280
-[Helen] When
we first started off,

01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:44.520
we were working with
the San Francisco Opera,

01:02:44.560 --> 01:02:46.200
we were working
with Frank Zappa.

01:02:46.200 --> 01:02:48.800
I mean you think ok, those are
two very different types of

01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:52.520
people, but both of them
wanted to capture music

01:02:52.560 --> 01:02:54.160
in a special way.

01:02:55.040 --> 01:02:57.400
We've worked with
the Grateful Dead,

01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.080
we've worked with Pavarotti,

01:02:59.120 --> 01:03:02.440
we've worked with so many
wonderful artists.

01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:04.520
Right now we're working
with Ed Sheeran,

01:03:04.520 --> 01:03:06.320
we're working with Metallica.

01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:10.000
[Beethoven's 9th
movement II continues]

01:03:10.040 --> 01:03:11.840
-[Helen] It's actually
the same thing

01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:14.720
what we do with Metallica,
what we do with Gabriela,

01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:18.640
it's all about giving them the
tools they need to create

01:03:18.680 --> 01:03:21.400
to be able to create everything
that they want to create,

01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:22.960
because they
all have a vision.

01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:25.760
-[John] We pick up the sound,

01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:28.800
and we have 20 millionths
of a second to do the work

01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:29.880
before we have to
release it to

01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:31.360
the ear drum, you know?

01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:35.080
So there's a lot of processing
going on in that little box,

01:03:35.080 --> 01:03:36.960
and it's running at
half a million hertz.

01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:39.200
-[Helen] The thing that
makes our device different

01:03:39.240 --> 01:03:41.920
is that it takes,
well you could describe it,

01:03:41.920 --> 01:03:43.600
but I'm not gonna let you,

01:03:43.640 --> 01:03:44.880
because it's
gonna be too long.

01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.680
Hold on, hold on,
let me say this.

01:03:47.720 --> 01:03:49.520
Our hearing device
that we are researching,

01:03:49.560 --> 01:03:53.280
it's still a research project,
that we codenamed Beethoven,

01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:55.680
is all about creating
a hearing device

01:03:55.720 --> 01:03:58.080
for musicians primarily,

01:03:58.120 --> 01:04:01.120
because musicians have
to have full dynamic range.

01:04:01.160 --> 01:04:02.880
-[Helen] Okay,
let's hear some music.

01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:03.360
-[Man] Alright.

01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:16.280
[Beethoven's 9th
movement I plays]

01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:18.760
-[John] Hearing aids
right now are mostly,

01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.760
you put them in and they
don't seal up the ear,

01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:24.240
and they just add some high
frequencies to the thing

01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:25.600
to help your speech.

01:04:25.600 --> 01:04:29.400
We basically plug,
we take total responsibility.

01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.360
We plug everything up,
it's like a super ear plug.

01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:34.600
And then we pick it up
and we reproduce it.

01:04:34.640 --> 01:04:35.800
We're completely responsible,

01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:37.360
once she wears
our hearing aid,

01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:38.320
what she's hearing.

01:04:38.560 --> 01:04:40.400
there's nothing coming
from anywhere else.

01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:41.680
-[Gabriela] Hey,
what did you just do?

01:04:41.720 --> 01:04:42.760
-[Man] I tried to fix it.

01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:43.760
Is it fixing it?

01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:44.920
-[Gabriela] It's nice.

01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:45.920
-[Man] Alright.

01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:47.880
-[Gabriela] I have
been disheartened,

01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:50.480
even with these hearing
aids that I have now.

01:04:50.520 --> 01:04:52.720
I've been fighting the fact
that they sharpen the pitch,

01:04:52.760 --> 01:04:53.960
not perfect pitch.

01:04:54.080 --> 01:04:56.600
So I have to combat
my own native musical ability

01:04:56.600 --> 01:04:59.600
in order to avail myself
of the tool.

01:04:59.600 --> 01:05:01.080
-[John] We're not doing
any of that here.

01:05:01.120 --> 01:05:02.880
We're not doing any
pitch shifting and stuff.

01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:05.000
It's all just balancing.

01:05:05.040 --> 01:05:08.040
I mean, we have
to figure, I mean,

01:05:08.040 --> 01:05:10.080
we're trying to get
directional clues,

01:05:10.120 --> 01:05:12.520
and to get the brain to solve
that we're gonna have to

01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:15.240
give the information
very accurately to the brain

01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:16.360
for it to do that.

01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:18.160
-[Helen] It's such an
incredible opportunity

01:05:18.200 --> 01:05:20.640
to work with Gabriela,
because she is so unique.

01:05:20.680 --> 01:05:25.840
I mean, she is a brilliant,
creative composer

01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.840
who is entirely deaf,
by most standards,

01:05:29.880 --> 01:05:34.400
and yet she's able to
help us create a tool,

01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:39.040
a device that allows her
to hear things she'd never

01:05:39.080 --> 01:05:40.760
thought she'd be able to.

01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:43.040
That is extraordinary for us.

01:05:43.080 --> 01:05:44.800
-[Gabriela] It was just
a very intense moment,

01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:51.200
because everything came
to a head in a few seconds.

01:05:51.240 --> 01:05:52.360
First, I was shocked.

01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:57.480
And then I felt
a little bit of grief.

01:05:57.520 --> 01:05:59.560
I felt like this is
what I've been missing

01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:01.680
for the first four
decades of my life.

01:06:01.720 --> 01:06:02.960
And the lack of effort.

01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:04.280
I think that was
the other thing,

01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:06.880
I'm so used to putting
in effort to translate,

01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:08.600
constantly translate
and strategize.

01:06:08.600 --> 01:06:12.720
And you feel complete.

01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:14.240
I don't know, you feel
you feel complete

01:06:14.240 --> 01:06:15.880
when you have
access to the sound

01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.240
as Mother Nature
handed it to you,

01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:22.080
as a genius like
Beethoven handed it to you.

01:06:22.080 --> 01:06:25.680
And this is the closest
that I have experienced,

01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:29.680
to something where
I felt complete.

01:06:33.080 --> 01:06:35.440
-[Gabriela] He lived at a time
when he didn't have access

01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:38.280
to the technology
that we do now.

01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:42.440
He lived at a time when
people didn't look at disability

01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:45.040
with the kind of
eyes they do now.

01:06:45.080 --> 01:06:48.520
And I enjoy a life
that he couldn't.

01:06:52.440 --> 01:06:56.920
And he writes "Forgive me
when you see me draw back

01:06:56.920 --> 01:06:59.880
when I would gladly
mingle with you.

01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:02.000
My misfortune
is doubly painful,

01:07:02.040 --> 01:07:05.560
because it must lead to
my being misunderstood.

01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:08.280
For me, there can be no
interaction to society

01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:12.800
with fine intercourse,
mutual exchange of thought.

01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:15.000
I must live like an exile.

01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.040
What a humiliation when
someone stood beside me,

01:07:18.040 --> 01:07:20.640
and heard a flute
in the distance,

01:07:20.640 --> 01:07:22.640
and I heard nothing.

01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:25.640
Such incidents have brought
me to the verge of despair.

01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:27.320
With a little more,

01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:31.560
and I would have had
put an end to my life."

01:07:33.200 --> 01:07:35.320
He was just a man.

01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:39.960
He wasn't the Superman that
people have made him to be.

01:07:39.960 --> 01:07:45.280
I think his genius is the fact
that he did write this music,

01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:47.800
this malady that he speaks of

01:07:47.800 --> 01:07:50.680
influenced his music
in such a way.

01:07:50.720 --> 01:07:54.960
How can we deny the origin
of his genius in the music?

01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:56.280
And he suffered.

01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:02.400
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III plays]

01:08:11.520 --> 01:08:13.480
-[Larry] The 9th symphony,
I've listened to it a lot

01:08:13.520 --> 01:08:16.600
lately for some reason.

01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:19.160
The part that is
the most moving,

01:08:19.200 --> 01:08:21.640
without question,
is the third movement,

01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:23.960
the movement before
the Ode to Joy movement.

01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:28.440
[Beethoven's 9th
movement III continues]

01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:37.720
-[Larry] And though
I'm at least agnostic...

01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:42.120
I call myself
a devout Atheist.

01:08:42.120 --> 01:08:47.720
But I would say the
third movement is a prayer,

01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:49.560
a very good prayer.

01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:52.760
And it's very gentle
and very beautiful.

01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:56.920
[Beethoven's 9th
movement III continues]

01:09:01.080 --> 01:09:04.560
-[Larry] And that
piece of music,

01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:06.680
that third movement is,

01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:10.720
it's like it emits
out of your innards.

01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:11.920
It's like a heartbeat.

01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:13.560
It's very beautiful.

01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:16.600
That's the piece I would
play for my sister Judih.

01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:21.080
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:46.160
-[Larry] Judih's
my older sister.

01:09:46.200 --> 01:09:48.080
We have a younger
sister, Andrea,

01:09:48.120 --> 01:09:49.480
I'm in the middle.

01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:51.960
Judih was very
special growing up,

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:53.480
she was really smart.

01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.360
So she ended up being friends
with people who were older

01:09:56.400 --> 01:09:59.080
than her, because she
kept skipping grades.

01:09:59.120 --> 01:10:03.720
But because of that she had
access to music that was much

01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:05.280
more sophisticated.

01:10:05.320 --> 01:10:08.200
So she surrounded
us with that,

01:10:08.240 --> 01:10:11.000
and she was the one
that we looked up to.

01:10:11.040 --> 01:10:15.360
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:21.000
-[Larry] My father
died six years ago,

01:10:21.040 --> 01:10:23.200
and my mother
decided to stay at home.

01:10:23.240 --> 01:10:27.000
She is often very much alone.

01:10:27.040 --> 01:10:28.600
But she wants it that way.

01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:32.200
She wants to be enveloped in
the memories of that place.

01:10:32.240 --> 01:10:33.440
She's very lucid.

01:10:33.480 --> 01:10:35.880
[door creaking]

01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:40.520
-[Iris] Are you bringing
the toilet paper in,

01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:42.040
or are you going to
leave it at the car?

01:10:42.040 --> 01:10:43.720
-[Larry] She ruins the mood
by talking about toilet paper.

01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:47.080
Do you really want to be on
film talking about toilet paper?

01:10:47.080 --> 01:10:50.440
-[Larry] My mother is someone
who is a real character,

01:10:50.480 --> 01:10:51.760
she's from
Brooklyn originally,

01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:53.360
she has still a
bit of that accent.

01:10:53.400 --> 01:10:54.240
-[Iris] You didn't tell me

01:10:54.440 --> 01:10:56.200
he was gonna be
doing all this filming.

01:10:56.240 --> 01:10:57.960
-[Man] That's a
nice shot right there, wait.

01:10:58.000 --> 01:10:59.560
-[Iris] Want me
to cry or laugh?

01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:00.800
-[Man] No, no, no, no.

01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.320
-[Larry] Tell my mother
not to talk if you want.

01:11:04.360 --> 01:11:07.120
-[Iris] I can shut up.

01:11:07.160 --> 01:11:09.080
-[Larry] I went early on,

01:11:09.120 --> 01:11:10.880
and I had to tell my
mother what happened.

01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:13.400
She hadn't seen the news.

01:11:13.440 --> 01:11:16.920
And she was crying,
and she was saying

01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:18.560
"I don't know what to hope for".

01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:22.120
Like the idea that
Judih and Gadi died

01:11:22.160 --> 01:11:26.120
in a field together embracing,
they were full of love.

01:11:26.160 --> 01:11:29.120
Maybe that's the
way they should go.

01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:33.280
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:38.680
-[Iris] Here's Judih
with Larry and Andrea.

01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:42.160
Here's Larry and
Mary getting married.

01:11:42.200 --> 01:11:44.760
And Bill and me.

01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:48.440
And my daughter Judih, the one
wearing black at a wedding.

01:11:48.480 --> 01:11:49.480
[laughing]

01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:54.320
Here's Judih with her
two oldest children.

01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:56.280
-[Woman] I'm terrified.

01:11:56.280 --> 01:11:58.560
I'm terrified for
the Jewish people.

01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:01.360
I'm terrified that
hate is taking over.

01:12:01.400 --> 01:12:04.160
Honestly, like,
I don't even want to cry

01:12:04.200 --> 01:12:06.600
because my dad
dying is my biggest fear.

01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:12.000
But I feel like dying could
be better in this situation.

01:12:12.040 --> 01:12:14.480
I imagine my mom's
little tiny body,

01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:16.840
you know, when
thrown somewhere,

01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.040
with somebody torturing her.

01:12:19.040 --> 01:12:21.720
You know, along with
the other 80 people

01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.480
that I know and grew
up with, little children.

01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:29.240
-[Larry] My sister was in
Toronto visiting my mother

01:12:29.280 --> 01:12:32.440
for her 95th birthday.

01:12:32.480 --> 01:12:34.920
And Judih pulled me aside

01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:36.760
just before I took
her to the airport,

01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:38.360
so my mother
wouldn't hear,

01:12:38.360 --> 01:12:41.480
and said "there's something
in the air right now,

01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:44.960
a war is going to happen,
a really serious war".

01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:47.960
And she said "the moment
there's whisperings of war

01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:49.360
we're out of there,

01:12:49.400 --> 01:12:51.880
we're going to leave
Israel and come to Canada."

01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:55.360
It's the very first time in
the 40 years she lived there

01:12:55.400 --> 01:12:57.200
that she ever said that.

01:12:57.640 --> 01:13:03.080
[planes whooshing]

01:13:03.120 --> 01:13:11.120
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:13:11.160 --> 01:13:24.040
[helicopters whirring]

01:13:24.040 --> 01:13:35.720
[planes whooshing]

01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:40.080
-[Monika] This is
a miliary celebration.

01:13:40.120 --> 01:13:45.480
It's pretty creepy
to see and hear

01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:48.760
military planes passing so low.

01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:54.040
[planes whooshing]

01:13:54.080 --> 01:13:58.360
-[Monika] They're a very
unreal image in Warsaw.

01:13:58.400 --> 01:14:04.280
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:14:14.120 --> 01:14:15.120
-[Monika] Yeah,
because I don't know

01:14:15.120 --> 01:14:18.320
what's the reason
of this situation,

01:14:18.360 --> 01:14:19.920
it's supposed
to give us like

01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:23.000
the sense of
security or something.

01:14:23.040 --> 01:14:27.240
It doesn't give me this
feeling at all, you know?

01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:34.040
Having a conflict right next
to our border maybe made us,

01:14:34.040 --> 01:14:37.920
you know, be more
aware that it can happen

01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:40.520
any day here as well.

01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.680
I think we are far away
from the idea of Humanism.

01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:46.480
Getting farther.

01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:52.560
-[Monika] I'm pretty
pessimistic

01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:54.880
about the world right now.

01:14:56.160 --> 01:14:58.760
-[Rebecca] If we lived up
to what was hatched

01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:00.000
during the Enlightenment,

01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:01.600
it would be a
truly different world.

01:15:02.200 --> 01:15:08.240
[Beethoven's
String Quartet 15 plays]

01:15:08.280 --> 01:15:11.080
We're all in this together.

01:15:11.120 --> 01:15:13.760
We've got to love one another,

01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.720
not because we're made
in the image of God,

01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:19.120
but because we're people.

01:15:19.120 --> 01:15:22.920
[Beethoven's
String Quartet 15 continues]

01:15:22.920 --> 01:15:28.520
-[Rebecca] Nobody knows how
important connectedness is,

01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:31.560
better than the
deeply lonely person.

01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:36.240
That was Beethoven.

01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:40.520
[Beethoven's
String Quartet 15 continues]

01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:42.280
-[Rebecca] You can
hear it all in the music.

01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:45.480
What a gift he gave to us.

01:15:45.480 --> 01:15:54.480
[Beethoven's
String Quartet 15 continues]

01:15:56.320 --> 01:16:00.160
-[Larry] It's the night
of the 21st of December.

01:16:00.160 --> 01:16:02.160
It's actually the
22nd of December now,

01:16:02.160 --> 01:16:04.080
I think it's like
three in the morning.

01:16:04.120 --> 01:16:09.960
Today was the shortest day,
and it's the longest night,

01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:11.240
and it is a very long night.

01:16:11.280 --> 01:16:16.680
I was on a phone call
with my sister, Andrea,

01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:21.480
with the
Israeli Intelligence,

01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:26.120
and they told us that they
have evidence now

01:16:26.120 --> 01:16:34.720
that my brother-in-law Gadi
is most certainly deceased.

01:16:34.760 --> 01:16:38.200
And so was Judih,
so is my sister Judih,

01:16:38.240 --> 01:16:42.320
which we have been hoping
that that was not the case.

01:16:42.360 --> 01:16:45.920
But maybe deep inside,
we knew all along

01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:48.640
that she did not
survive October 7th.

01:16:51.160 --> 01:16:54.640
A lot of people were praying,
and we're praying,

01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:57.280
which kind of shows
you what prayers do.

01:16:57.320 --> 01:17:00.320
But we learned that in
the Holocaust as well,

01:17:00.360 --> 01:17:02.080
and other atrocities.

01:17:03.880 --> 01:17:08.480
So I'm ranting a bit,
but I'm very despondent.

01:17:10.360 --> 01:17:12.000
I want to believe in humanity.

01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:14.200
I want to believe in the
things that this film

01:17:14.200 --> 01:17:16.560
we've been doing is about,

01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:19.280
but there's just
so much pain.

01:17:19.320 --> 01:17:21.880
Is it the best of
all possible worlds?

01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:23.240
No, not tonight.

01:17:27.120 --> 01:17:31.480
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III plays]

01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:52.040
-[Woman] Ok.

01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:55.680
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:17:57.080 --> 01:17:58.720
-[Larry] It's great
to see you.

01:17:58.760 --> 01:18:01.400
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:18:02.480 --> 01:18:03.920
-[Woman] Hey.

01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:07.760
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:13.760
-[Gabriela] Imagine Beethoven
at the end of his life,

01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:16.960
and he's in really dire
circumstances with his health,

01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:20.080
and he's alone,
and he feels rejected,

01:18:20.120 --> 01:18:24.880
and perhaps does
know that he's dying,

01:18:24.920 --> 01:18:28.640
but he was going to celebrate
what he couldn't have, himself.

01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:32.320
And leave this
message for the future.

01:18:32.360 --> 01:18:35.520
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:18:37.360 --> 01:18:39.440
-[Woman] In the beginning
I had kind of

01:18:39.480 --> 01:18:42.560
losing faith in humanity.

01:18:42.840 --> 01:18:46.160
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:18:46.360 --> 01:18:48.640
-[Woman] I hope to
recover from this feeling,

01:18:48.680 --> 01:18:51.000
I hope to regain the faith.

01:18:52.200 --> 01:18:54.640
And the 9th Symphony
of Beethoven

01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:56.560
gives us this message.

01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:01.960
[Beethoven's 9th
Movement III continues]

01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:12.880
-[Larry] Beethoven was
writing for the future,

01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:15.200
and writing for a
better humankind,

01:19:15.240 --> 01:19:18.880
and I find that so moving.

01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:22.160
We are all people,
we all can do good.

01:19:22.200 --> 01:19:24.080
We can all embrace each other.

01:19:24.120 --> 01:19:26.080
That's what I believe in.

01:19:26.120 --> 01:19:28.920
And that's what I...

01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:32.040
And it's what my sister,

01:19:32.040 --> 01:19:34.680
and and people
who are like-minded,

01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:38.880
I want to go
forward with that.

01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:41.280
And I want to impart
those things...

01:19:42.120 --> 01:19:43.680
[with emotion]
To people I love.

01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:54.200
-[Man] This idea of freedom,
idea of friendship, idea of joy.

01:19:54.240 --> 01:19:56.920
We are still thinking about

01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.760
how we can change
our world to be perfect.

01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:07.920
-[Rebecca] So let this
incredible emotional beauty,

01:20:07.960 --> 01:20:13.920
birthed in great anguish,
wake people of the Earth up.

01:20:13.960 --> 01:20:17.080
Inspire them, not to
look beyond this life,

01:20:17.080 --> 01:20:19.920
but to look to this life.

01:20:19.960 --> 01:20:22.360
This very short time we have.

01:20:22.400 --> 01:20:26.560
And I think this is what
he wanted to give to us.

01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:29.600
And the depth of his genius.

01:20:32.200 --> 01:20:35.200
-[Keri-Lynn] This is
the miracle of life.

01:20:35.200 --> 01:20:36.760
That good comes out of evil.

01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:42.440
And that's what
Beethoven's symphony's about.

01:20:42.480 --> 01:20:52.520
[Beethoven's 9th
Ode to Joy plays]

01:20:52.520 --> 01:20:57.680
[Beethoven's 9th
Ode to Joy plays]

01:20:57.720 --> 01:21:10.600
[Beethoven's 9th
Ode to Joy plays]

01:21:17.160 --> 01:21:24.200
[quick dramatic music]

01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:50.600
[Brodka's Utrata playing]

01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:29.800
[Beethoven's
Ode to Joy playing]