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This has happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s during the classical swine fever outbreak.
And at the end of the war, there were only 30 of these classical dancers still living.
This was in the middle of the 20th century when music from the heart, beautiful music, wasn't the most popular thing in the classical music world.
And I find myself now in the unlikely position of standing in front of all of you as a professional classical composer and conductor.
One of the things that we did was to adopt a very classical model of fear.
But as I was moving away from the traditional classical repertoire and trying to find new ways of musical expression, I realized that with today's technological resources, there's no reason to limit what can be produced at one time from a single string instrument.
But how many of you would be able to make a confident assertion about a piece of classical music?
Or the recipe for the ultimate jaw-dropping TED Talk: "Flickr photos of intergalactic classical composer."
Either it's going to turn into a sort of classical S-curve like this, until something totally different comes along, or maybe it's going to do this.
We talk about classical music having a shapeliness to it.
These were small things, people making applications to keep track of their local basketball team scores or to organize their research or to teach people about classical music or to calculate weird astronomical dates.
I trained in classical ballet and have a background in architecture and fashion.
And I think one of the problems with classical economics is, it's absolutely preoccupied with reality.
Engineers, economists, classical economists all had a very, very robust existing latticework on which practically every idea could be hung.
And the thing about classical music, that what and how, it's inexhaustible."
Well when it comes to classical music, there's an awful lot to pass on, much more than Mozart, Beethoven or Tchiakovsky.
Because classical music is an unbroken living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years.
But what classical music does is to distill all of these musics down, to condense them to their absolute essence, and from that essence create a new language, a language that speaks very lovingly and unflinchingly about who we really are.
And in classical music we can follow these changes very, very accurately because of the music's powerful silent partner, the way it's been passed on: notation.
And from this moment, classical music became what it most essentially is, a dialogue between the two powerful sides of our nature: instinct and intelligence.
Now with all this possibility, classical music really took off.
They came from particle physics, they came from classical philology, they came from book conservation, they came from ancient mathematics, they came from data management, they came from scientific imaging and program management.
So by convention, they created a rule in which they borrowed the CK sound, "ck" sound, from the classical Greek in the form of the letter Kai.
In classical physics, there is always some friction, some energy loss.
Well, I remember in third grade, I had this moment where my father, who never takes off from work, he's a classical blue collar, a working-class immigrant person, going to school to see his son, how he's doing, and the teacher said to him, he said, "You know, John is good at math and art."
And at the very core of this crisis of mine, I felt somehow the life of music had chosen me, where somehow, perhaps possibly in a very naive sense, I felt what Skid Row really needed was somebody like Paul Farmer and not another classical musician playing on Bunker Hill.
After one of our events at the Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, a woman walked up to us and she had tears streaming down her face, and she had a palsy, she was shaking, and she had this gorgeous smile, and she said that she had never heard classical music before, she didn't think she was going to like it, she had never heard a violin before, but that hearing this music was like hearing the sunshine, and that nobody ever came to visit them, and that for the first time in six years, when she heard us play, she stopped shaking without medication.
My audience is anyone who is here to listen, even those who are not familiar with classical music.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
Now, with my last piece, I'd like to show you that classical music can be so much fun, exciting, and that it can rock you.
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