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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably a lot of you know the story of the two salesmen
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who went down to Africa in the 1900s.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for selling shoes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they wrote telegrams back to Manchester.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them wrote, "Situation hopeless. Stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't wear shoes."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the other one wrote, "Glorious opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't have any shoes yet."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there's a similar situation in the classical music world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there are some people who think
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that classical music is dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are some of us who think you ain't seen nothing yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And rather than go into statistics and trends,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell you about all the orchestras that are closing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the record companies that are folding,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought we should do an experiment tonight -- an experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, it's not really an experiment, because I know the outcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's like an experiment. Now, before we --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:01:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- before we start, I need to do two things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is I want to remind you of what a seven-year-old child
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sounds like when he plays the piano.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you have this child at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sounds something like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see some of you recognize this child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if he practices for a year and takes lessons, he's now eight
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he sounds like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.00,0:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he practices for another year and takes lessons -- now he's nine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he practices for another and takes lessons -- now he's 10.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that point, they usually give up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if you'd waited, if you'd waited for one more year,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would have heard this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what happened was not maybe what you thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is, he suddenly became passionate, engaged,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved, got a new teacher, he hit puberty, or whatever it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What actually happened was the impulses were reduced.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the first time, he was playing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an impulse on every note.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second, with an impulse every other note.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see it by looking at my head.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nine-year-old
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put an impulse on every four notes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.00,0:02:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the 10-year-old, on every eight notes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the 11-year-old, one impulse on the whole phrase.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know -- I don't know how we got into this position.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't say, "I'm going to move my shoulder over, move my body."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, the music pushed me over,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is why I call it one-buttock playing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be the other buttock.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, a gentleman was once watching a presentation I was doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was working with a young pianist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the president of a corporation in Ohio.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was working with this young pianist
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "The trouble with you is you're a two-buttock player.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should be a one-buttock player."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I moved his body like that, while he was playing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And suddenly, the music took off. It took flight.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a gasp in the audience when they heard the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I got a letter from this gentleman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.00,0:03:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "I was so moved.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went back and I transformed my entire company
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a one-buttock company."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the other thing I wanted to do is to tell you about you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 1,600 people, I believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My estimation is that probably 45 of you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are absolutely passionate about classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You adore classical music. Your FM is always on that classical dial.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have CDs in your car, and you go to the symphony.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your children are playing instruments.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't imagine your life without classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the first group; it's quite a small group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there's another group, bigger group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the people who don't mind classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.00,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you've come home from a long day,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you take a glass of wine, and you put your feet up.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little Vivaldi in the background doesn't do any harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the second group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now comes the third group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the people who never listen to classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just simply not part of your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might hear it like second-hand smoke at the airport, but --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.00,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.00,0:04:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- and maybe a little bit of a march from "Aida"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you come into the hall. But otherwise, you never hear it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's probably the largest group of all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.00,0:04:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's a very small group.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.00,0:04:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the people who think they're tone-deaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amazing number of people think they're tone-deaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, I hear a lot, "My husband is tone-deaf."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.00,0:05:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, you cannot be tone-deaf. Nobody is tone-deaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you were tone-deaf, you couldn't change the gears
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on your car, in a stick shift car.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You couldn't tell the difference between
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody from Texas and somebody from Rome.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.00,0:05:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the telephone. The telephone. If your mother calls
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the miserable telephone, she calls and says, "Hello,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.00,0:05:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you not only know who it is, you know what mood she's in.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a fantastic ear. Everybody has a fantastic ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So nobody is tone-deaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I tell you what. It doesn't work for me to go on with this thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with such a wide gulf between those who understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,love and [are] passionate about classical music,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who have no relationship to it at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tone-deaf people, they're no longer here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even between those three categories, it's too wide a gulf.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.00,0:05:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm not going to go on until every single person in this room,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.00,0:06:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,downstairs and in Aspen, and everybody else looking,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.00,0:06:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will come to love and understand classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.00,0:06:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what we're going to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.00,0:06:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you notice that there is not the slightest doubt in my mind
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.00,0:06:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this is going to work if you look at my face, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.00,0:06:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for one moment the capacity of the people he's leading
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to realize whatever he's dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, "I have a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, I'm not sure they'll be up to it."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.00,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. So I'm going to take a piece of Chopin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a beautiful prelude by Chopin. Some of you will know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.00,0:07:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know what I think probably happened in this room?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.00,0:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started, you thought, "How beautiful that sounds."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't think we should go to the same place
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for our summer holidays next year."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's funny, isn't it? It's funny how those thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.00,0:07:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of waft into your head.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.00,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- and of course, if the piece is long and you've had a long day,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might actually drift off.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then your companion will dig you in the ribs
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Wake up! It's culture!" And then you feel even worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But has it ever occurred to you that the reason you feel sleepy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in classical music is not because of you, but because of us?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.00,0:08:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did anybody think while I was playing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why is he using so many impulses?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'd done this with my head you certainly would have thought it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for the rest of your life, every time you hear classical music,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll always be able to know if you hear those impulses.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's see what's really going on here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a B. This is a B. The next note is a C.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.00,0:08:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the job of the C is to make the B sad. And it does, doesn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.00,0:08:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.00,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Composers know that. If they want sad music,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just play those two notes.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.00,0:08:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But basically, it's just a B, with four sads.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it goes down to A. Now to G. And then to F.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.00,0:08:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have B, A, G, F. And if we have B, A, G, F,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do we expect next? Oh, that might have been a fluke.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's try it again. Ooh, the TED choir.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you notice nobody is tone-deaf, right? Nobody is.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, every village in Bangladesh
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every hamlet in China -- everybody knows:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.00,0:09:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,da, da, da, da -- da. Everybody knows, who's expecting that E.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.00,0:09:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Chopin didn't want to reach the E there,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.00,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what will have happened? It will be over, like Hamlet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you remember Hamlet? Act one, scene three,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.00,0:09:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he finds out that his uncle killed his father.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.00,0:09:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember, he keeps on going up to his uncle
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.00,0:09:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost killing him. And then he backs away,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he goes up to him again and almost kills him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.00,0:09:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the critics, all of whom are sitting in the back row there,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.00,0:09:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have to have an opinion, so they say, "Hamlet is a procrastinator."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or they say, "Hamlet has an Oedipus complex."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.00,0:09:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, otherwise the play would be over, stupid.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.00,0:09:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why Shakespeare puts all that stuff in Hamlet --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, Ophelia going mad and the play within the play,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Yorick's skull, and the gravediggers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's in order to delay -- until act five, he can kill him.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same with the Chopin. He's just about to reach the E,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says, "Oops, better go back up and do it again."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he does it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.00,0:10:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he gets excited. (Piano) That's excitement,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.00,0:10:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to worry about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he gets to F-sharp, and finally he goes down to E,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.00,0:10:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's the wrong chord -- because the chord he's looking for
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this one, (Piano) and instead he does ...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Piano) Now, we call that a deceptive cadence, because it deceives us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.00,0:10:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always tell my students, "If you have a deceptive cadence,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be sure to raise your eyebrows. Then everybody will know."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.00,0:10:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.00,0:10:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right. So, he gets to E, but it's the wrong chord.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.00,0:10:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he tries E again. That chord doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.00,0:10:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he tries the E again. That chord doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.00,0:10:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, he tries E again, and that doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.00,0:11:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then finally ... (Piano)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.00,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a gentleman in the front row who went, "Mmm."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same gesture he makes when he comes home
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after a long day, turns off the key in his car and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.00,0:11:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Aah, I'm home." Because we all know where home is.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.00,0:11:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a piece which goes from away to home.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.00,0:11:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm going to play it all the way through
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.00,0:11:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're going to follow. B, C, B, C, B, C, B --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.00,0:11:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down to A, down to G, down to F.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.00,0:11:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost goes to E, but otherwise the play would be over.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.00,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes back up to B. He gets very excited. Goes to F-sharp. Goes to E.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the wrong chord. It's the wrong chord. It's the wrong chord.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.00,0:11:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally goes to E, and it's home.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.00,0:11:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what you're going to see is one-buttock playing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.00,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because for me, to join the B to the E,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.00,0:11:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to stop thinking about every single note along the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.00,0:11:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start thinking about the long, long line from B to E.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:11:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we were just in South Africa, and you can't go to South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.00,0:12:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without thinking of Mandela in jail for 27 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was he thinking about? Lunch?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.00,0:12:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, he was thinking about the vision for South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.00,0:12:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for human beings. That's what kept --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.00,0:12:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is about vision. This is about the long line.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.00,0:12:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the bird who flies over the field
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.00,0:12:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doesn't care about the fences underneath, all right?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.00,0:12:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, you're going to follow the line all the way from B to E.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.00,0:12:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've one last request before I play this piece all the way through.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.00,0:12:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you think of somebody who you adore, who's no longer there?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.00,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A beloved grandmother, a lover --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.00,0:12:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody in your life who you love with all your heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.00,0:12:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that person is no longer with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.00,0:12:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,follow the line all the way from B to E,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll hear everything that Chopin had to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.00,0:14:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.00,0:15:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you may be wondering,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.00,0:15:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may be wondering why I'm clapping.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.00,0:15:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I did this at a school in Boston
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.00,0:15:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with about 70 seventh graders, 12-year-olds.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.00,0:15:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I did exactly what I did with you, and I told them
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.00,0:15:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and explained them and the whole thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.00,0:15:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the end, they went crazy, clapping. They were clapping.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.00,0:15:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was clapping. They were clapping.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.00,0:15:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, I said, "Why am I clapping?"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.00,0:15:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the little kids said, "Because we were listening."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.00,0:15:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of it. 1,600 people, busy people,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.00,0:15:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved in all sorts of different things,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.00,0:15:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening, understanding and being moved by a piece by Chopin.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.00,0:15:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that is something.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.00,0:15:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, am I sure that every single person followed that,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.00,0:15:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understood it, was moved by it? Of course, I can't be sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.00,0:15:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I tell you what happened to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.00,0:15:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in Ireland during the Troubles, 10 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.00,0:15:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.00,0:15:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on conflict resolution. And I did this with them --
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.00,0:16:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a risky thing to do, because they were street kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.00,0:16:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them came to me the next morning and he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.00,0:16:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know, I've never listened to classical music in my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.00,0:16:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when you played that shopping piece ... "
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.00,0:16:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.00,0:16:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "My brother was shot last year and I didn't cry for him.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.00,0:16:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But last night, when you played that piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.00,0:16:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was the one I was thinking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.00,0:16:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I felt the tears streaming down my face.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.00,0:16:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, it felt really good to cry for my brother."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.00,0:16:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I made up my mind at that moment
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.00,0:16:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that classical music is for everybody. Everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.00,0:16:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, how would you walk -- because you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.00,0:16:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my profession, the music profession doesn't see it that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.00,0:16:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say three percent of the population likes classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.00,0:16:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If only we could move it to four percent, our problems would be over.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.00,0:16:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, "How would you walk? How would you talk? How would you be?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.00,0:16:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you thought, three percent of the population likes classical music,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.00,0:16:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if only we could move it to four percent. How would you walk?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.00,0:17:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would you talk? How would you be?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.00,0:17:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you thought, everybody loves classical music --
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.00,0:17:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just haven't found out about it yet."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.00,0:17:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.00,0:17:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, these are totally different worlds.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.00,0:17:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I had an amazing experience. I was 45 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.00,0:17:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been conducting for 20 years, and I suddenly had a realization.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.00,0:17:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.00,0:17:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My picture appears on the front of the CD --
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.00,0:17:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.00,0:17:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- but the conductor doesn't make a sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.00,0:17:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.00,0:17:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that changed everything for me. It was totally life changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.00,0:17:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in my orchestra came up to me and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.00,0:17:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ben, what happened?" That's what happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.00,0:17:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized my job was to awaken possibility in other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, I wanted to know whether I was doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.00,0:17:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know how you find out? You look at their eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.00,0:17:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.00,0:17:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could light up a village with this guy's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.00,0:17:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.00,0:18:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.00,0:18:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.00,0:18:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the question:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.00,0:18:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who am I being, that my players' eyes are not shining?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.00,0:18:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do that with our children, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.00,0:18:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.00,0:18:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a totally different world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.00,0:18:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we're all about to end this magical, on-the-mountain week,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.00,0:18:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're going back into the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.00,0:18:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say, it's appropriate for us to ask the question,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.00,0:18:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are we being as we go back out into the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.00,0:18:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, I have a definition of success.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.00,0:18:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.00,0:18:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.00,0:18:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, I have one last thought, which is
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.00,0:18:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it really makes a difference what we say --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.00,0:18:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the words that come out of our mouth.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.00,0:18:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned this from a woman who survived Auschwitz,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.00,0:18:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the rare survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.00,0:19:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She went to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.00,0:19:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her brother was eight, and the parents were lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.00,0:19:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she told me this, she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.00,0:19:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We were in the train going to Auschwitz, and I looked down
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.00,0:19:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saw my brother's shoes were missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.00,0:19:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, 'Why are you so stupid, can't you keep your things together
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.00,0:19:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for goodness' sake?' " The way an elder sister
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.00,0:19:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might speak to a younger brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.00,0:19:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, it was the last thing she ever said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.00,0:19:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she never saw him again. He did not survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.00,0:19:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when she came out of Auschwitz, she made a vow.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.00,0:19:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She told me this. She said, "I walked out of Auschwitz into life
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.00,0:19:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I made a vow. And the vow was, I will never say anything
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.00,0:19:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that couldn't stand as the last thing I ever say."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.00,0:19:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, can we do that? No. And we'll make ourselves wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.00,0:20:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and others wrong. But it is a possibility to live into. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.00,0:20:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.00,0:20:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shining eyes, shining eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.00,0:20:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.00,0:20:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music)