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ANNOUNCER: Major
funding provided by:
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Thank you.
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STEVES: Bonjour.
I'm Rick Steves in Paris.
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You know, if you looked
at the map of Europe
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200 years ago,
you'd hardly recognize it.
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It's missing so many countries.
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Today, it's a whole different
map, but it didn't just happen.
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In the romantic age,
the 1800s, national struggles
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helped to shape
my favorite continent.
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And I'm fascinated by how music
from the same age played a role.
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It lifted patriotic spirits
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like a bugle call
on the battlefield.
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Hmm, I wonder...
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What if I could team up
with a great orchestra,
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with a dynamic conductor
in the heartland of America
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and weave in beautiful video
images from across Europe
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to design a musical trip.
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Yes, a concert,
a symphonic journey
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where we'd visit
seven countries musically,
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celebrate their national story
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with their greatest hits
of the romantic age
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and I could be the tour guide.
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[applause]
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STEVES: Thank you. Thank you.
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I am thrilled to be
here with all of you
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on the stage of Historic
Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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[cheers & applause]
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And we're about to take
together a symphonic journey
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all across Europe.
Are you ready to travel?
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AUDIENCE: Yes.
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STEVES: Great, because
conductor John Morris Russell
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and the Cincinnati Pops
are about to take us
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to seven countries musically
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and I get to be your tour guide.
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And I'm really in
a good mood because
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I get to mix three of
my favorite things together:
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love of travel,
history, and music,
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as with the help of vivid images
and the beautiful music,
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we appreciate how
the turmoil and triumphs
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of 19th century Europe
helped to shape
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the beautiful world
that we live in today.
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Our theme is romanticism
and nationalism,
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the isms of the 19th century.
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And one thing they
had in common was
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a fundamental
yearning for freedom.
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We all want to be free.
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We want to be free
from foreign oppressors.
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We want to be free
from kings and tyrants.
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And we want to be
free as individuals
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to live creative
and fulfilling lives.
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Well, the music we'll hear
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is from the romantic era,
the 1800s.
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And by the way, this is not
the giggly, kissy romantic era
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that you and I might
remember from middle school.
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Okay. This is an
artistic era that followed
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the cerebral,
logical classical age.
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Romanticism was
less about the head
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and more about the heart.
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It was a time when
people embraced nature
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and they championed
underdog national causes.
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It was an age of common
people asserting themselves,
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grabbing the reins of power.
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[drums, then music]
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While this is a European tour,
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we're starting in
the United States,
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where we celebrate
the accomplishments
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of the American Revolution,
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the world's first great
democratic revolution
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that helped inspire the
flourishing of freedom
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in 19th century Europe.
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America the Beautiful.
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[music: America the Beautiful]
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[applause]
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STEVES: Wow,
that gave me chills.
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America the Beautiful.
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Those are patriotic goosebumps.
Why?
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Because this music
celebrates our homeland.
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Now, as your tour guide,
my challenge is to take
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that wonderful, if ethnocentric,
musical emotion on the road.
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Our mission is to
appreciate how others thrilled
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the same way to
music of their homeland.
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Every nation has its own anthems
and each is different.
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Our itinerary features
romantic era music
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that stoked the pride of
nationalities all across Europe,
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from Norway to Italy to England.
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And we start in Austria,
the Hapsburg Empire,
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where the waltz embodies
the elegance and joie de vivre
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of that society at its peak
in the late 1800s.
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Now the Habsburgs
ruled a vast empire.
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They loved music, and they
were great patrons of the arts.
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That's why Mozart and
Beethoven and Brahms
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all lived and composed in
the imperial capital of Vienna.
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Now, Johann Strauss
was the heartthrob
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of the romantic
period in Vienna.
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With his violin, he could whip
the audience into a frenzy.
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His lilting and twirling
waltzes were all the rage.
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This piece was written to
herald a political summit.
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Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany was meeting
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Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.
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It's titled Emperor Waltz.
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That's singular,
ambiguous on purpose.
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Think about it.
Kaiser Wilhelm, Franz Joseph,
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two imperial egos,
each of them were so vain
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they probably thought
this song was about them.
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[laughter]
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Okay.
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The number one hit from 1889
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by Johann Strauss, Jr.,
The Emperor Waltz.
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[music: Emperor Waltz
by Strauss]
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STEVES: Next up, we sail up
the Danube River into Germany.
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Now remember, in the mid 1800s,
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when our next piece was
composed, there was no Germany.
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It was a piece of real estate
about the size of Montana,
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made up of dozens of
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little independent
German speaking states.
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While fragmented,
they had a dream in common
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to create one unified
German speaking nation.
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Now, in the 19th century,
far and wide nation states
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were coalescing
and there were wars.
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In the 1860s, when we Americans
were fighting about separation,
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Germans and Italians were
fighting about unification.
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Wannabe nations,
to establish their legitimacy,
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dug deep, reviving mythic themes
to show off their roots.
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You see it in the nostalgic art,
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and you see it in the neo
medieval castles of the age.
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The famous castles of
mad King Ludwig in Bavaria,
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Neuschwanstein,
it looks medieval,
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but it was actually built
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about the same time
as the Eiffel Tower.
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King Ludwig was a huge fan
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of the romantic composer
Richard Wagner.
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In fact,
many rooms in his castle
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were inspired by
Wagnerian operas.
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Wagner's grand operas
mixed Germanic myths
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and medieval traditions
and Christian themes
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that together would stir
the souls of his countrymen.
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Up next, the rousing prelude
to act three from Lohengrin.
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[music: Prelude To
Act 3 Of Lohengrin]
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STEVES: Like so many
small European nations,
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the Czech Republic
has struggled historically
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and heroically among
big bully neighbors.
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Imagine,
to the north you've got Prussia,
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to the south you've got
Austria and the Habsburgs,
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and to the east, Russia.
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This is not
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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The 19th century was
a time of national awakenings.
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From Finland to Bulgaria,
small nations were on the rise.
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Again,
romantic art and romantic music
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championed underdog causes,
and a key figure
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in the Czech national
revival movement
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was the composer
Bedrich Smetana.
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Our next piece,
The Moldau, gets its title
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from the Great River that
literally and emotionally
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connects the Czech people.
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But Moldau is the
river's German name,
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and the composer,
Smetana, would much rather
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we call it by its Czech name,
the Vltava.
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Over many difficult centuries,
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the Vltava helped
preserve the language,
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the culture, and the identity
of the Czech people.
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The piece is like
a landscape portrait.
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The melody flows like a stream.
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It starts as a tiny brook
with flutes
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frolicking through
forests and meadows.
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Then, as it grows bigger,
more instruments join in.
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We hear a merry
gathering of peasants.
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Later hunters in the forests.
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And finally, with rolling
timpani and crashing cymbals,
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will reach the stately
capital of Prague.
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As you'll hear, this piece
and the river it represents
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embodies the enduring heroic
spirit of the Czech people.
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To this day, Czechs
get a lump in their throat
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when they hear Smetana's
hauntingly beautiful melody,
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The Vltava.
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[music: The Vltava]
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STEVES: Are you good for
some more travel?
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AUDIENCE: Yes.
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STEVES: I hope so,
because we've still got England,
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Italy, Norway,
and France on our itinerary.
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This next piece is
from Great Britain
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and it captures
the grandeur of what was
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the world's first superpower.
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At the end of the 19th century,
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Queen Victoria ruled
a quarter of the planet.
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Her realm was famously
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the empire
upon which the sun never set.
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Humming with
newfangled inventions
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from the industrial age,
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with a middle class that was
both educated and prosperous,
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Britain was on a roll.
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Pomp and Circumstance,
by Sir Edward Elgar,
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seems to provide
a fitting soundtrack
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to the confidence
that was Britons'
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at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Now, today, we Americans
know this piece because
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we use it at
commencement ceremonies
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to celebrate
educational triumphs.
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But if you happen to
be ruling a vast empire
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or bushwhacking a brave
new future for the common man,
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this piece works well
for other triumphs too.
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So now chin up as we travel
to England with vivid images
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and the regal sounds
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of Elgar's Pomp and
Circumstance march No 1.
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[music: Pomp and
Circumstance No.1]
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STEVES: And now to Italy
with a piece that evokes
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the struggle of
the Italian speaking people
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to create their own
independent country.
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Remember before the 1870s,
like Germany,
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Italy was just a bunch of
little Italian speaking states
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fighting bigger powers for
their rightful place on the map.
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The dream was that
the only Italian blooded king,
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a man who ruled the country
of Piedmont, Victor Emmanuel,
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would be the first king
of a united Italy.
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The Resurgimiento,
as the movement
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for Italian unification was
called, was dangerous.
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You could be
arrested for just flying
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the Italian colors of green,
white and red.
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Italy's favorite music
has long been opera
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with lofty melodies
and so melodramatic.
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It's a good fit for
a land with such emotion
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where everything is issimo,
you know?
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And for Italian patriots,
the operas of Giuseppe Verdi
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stirred nationalist spirits like
a bugle call on the battlefield.
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Now,
when a Verdi opera came to town,
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people packed the house.
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The arias, which were like
national anthems in disguise,
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inspired people to
actually stand on their seats
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and sing with gusto,
as if raising their voices
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in unison for Italian statehood.
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Even the composer's name, Verdi,
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became a nationalistic
cry for an Italian born king.
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V-E-R-D-I, Victor Emmanuel
Re d'Italia, King of Italy.
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This next piece was composed
32:27.466 --> 32:30.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
when Austria ruled
much of the Italian land.
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It's from the opera Nabucco.
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The plot is ancient.
It's from the Old Testament.
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The Jews were
conquered and then exiled
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from their homeland
by the Babylonians.
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The Italians could relate.
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In fact, the famous chorus
of the Hebrew slaves,
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VA pensiero, came to
symbolize the Italian struggle.
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And with so much
political symbolism,
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this opera just barely
got by the censors.
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By Giuseppe Verdi,
here's the stirring
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Overture from the opera Nabucco.
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[music: Nabucco: Overture]
38:34.000 --> 38:35.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
[applause]
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STEVES: Now we travel north to
Norway,
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the land of my grandparents.
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Until the 19th century,
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Norway was under the thumb
of Sweden and Denmark.
38:59.800 --> 39:02.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
In fact, back then,
the capital city, Oslo
39:02.666 --> 39:07.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
was actually named
Kristiania after a Danish king.
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Now, if you know
Norwegians like I do,
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you know they have a deep
seated need to be Norwegian,
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distinct from the
Danes and the Swedes.
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In fact, think about this.
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The cultural capital,
Bergen, is in the far west,
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in fjord country, about as far
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from Denmark and Sweden
as you can possibly get.
39:26.433 --> 39:28.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
That's where the artists,
the writers
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and the composers gathered.
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Part of romanticism
and part of nationalism
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is a love of the
wonder of nature.
39:36.366 --> 39:40.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
In their quest for freedom,
Norwegians found inspiration
39:40.000 --> 39:42.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in the natural beauty
of their homeland.
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A popular play back then
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was based
on an old fairy tale, Peer Gynt.
39:47.766 --> 39:50.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He was the local Huck Finn
whose misadventures
39:50.300 --> 39:53.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
were set in Norway's
majestic nature.
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Edvard Grieg set
the play to music,
39:56.700 --> 39:58.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and this piece celebrates both
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the pristine majesty of
fjord country, as you'll see,
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and the pride of the
Norwegian way of life.
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Here is Morning Mood,
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from Peer Gynt by
Edvard Grieg from Norway.
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[music: Morning Mood
by Edvard Grieg]
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[applause]
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STEVES: So, so beautiful.
44:34.400 --> 44:36.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
You know,
every time I hear that piece,
44:36.833 --> 44:39.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think of my uncle Thor
from Norway
44:39.200 --> 44:41.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and a story from my childhood.
44:41.766 --> 44:44.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
When I was just a kid,
maybe ten years old,
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Uncle Thor came to
visit our family in Seattle.
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My mom insisted
that I play the piano.
44:49.833 --> 44:51.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
She said, "Rick,
play that song you're learning
44:51.566 --> 44:53.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
by the Norwegian composer."
44:53.566 --> 44:55.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
So I dutifully played
44:55.233 --> 44:58.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Wedding Day
at Troldhaugen by Edvard Grieg.
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Uncle Thor was so excited,
he gave me a crisp $20 bill.
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I had never seen so much
money at one time. [laughter]
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But you know, his enthusiasm
45:11.900 --> 45:14.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
was an even bigger
gift than that $20 bill.
45:14.933 --> 45:17.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think Uncle Thor
planted the seed
45:17.400 --> 45:20.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
that would become this concert.
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It's a beautiful,
beautiful thing. [applause]
45:28.333 --> 45:31.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Thor was demonstrating
the joy of two cultures
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coming together through music,
45:33.533 --> 45:37.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
or maybe he was just
bribing me to stop playing.
45:37.566 --> 45:40.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I'm not sure.
[laughter]
45:40.966 --> 45:44.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Okay, no tour of Europe,
musical or otherwise,
45:44.233 --> 45:47.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is complete without
a stop in France.
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France was the home
of the enlightenment,
45:49.366 --> 45:51.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the great revolution
in so many ways
45:51.166 --> 45:53.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
where modern Europe was born.
45:53.666 --> 45:57.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Now, in the 19th century, France
was certainly independent,
45:57.166 --> 45:59.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but its struggles were domestic.
45:59.933 --> 46:02.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
It was the commoners
against the aristocracy,
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the 99% versus the 1%.
46:06.166 --> 46:08.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
With its revolutions,
and it took several,
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the French led the charge
in Europe
46:10.833 --> 46:13.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
to finally end
the medieval old regime.
46:13.900 --> 46:16.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
That notion of divine monarchy,
46:16.966 --> 46:20.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that some were born, ordained
by God to rule without limit,
46:20.666 --> 46:24.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and everybody else,
well, just deal with it.
46:24.233 --> 46:27.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Throughout the 19th century,
the revolutionary slogan
46:27.200 --> 46:29.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
pushing for an end
to this old regime was
46:29.766 --> 46:33.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
liberté, égalité, fraternité.
46:33.700 --> 46:36.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
This romanticism
promoted radical ideals
46:36.200 --> 46:38.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of political freedom.
46:38.333 --> 46:43.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Imagine government actually by,
for, and of the people.
46:43.800 --> 46:46.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Listening to French music
from the 19th century
46:46.566 --> 46:49.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I can almost hear
the rabble in the streets.
46:49.166 --> 46:52.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I find myself cheering liberty,
equality, brotherhood,
46:52.333 --> 46:55.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and of course, Vive la France!
46:55.166 --> 46:58.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Up next, by Camille Saint-Saens,
46:58.300 --> 47:01.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Marche Militaire Francaise,
the French Military March.
47:05.433 --> 47:06.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
[music: Marche Militaire
Francaise by Saint-Saens]
51:34.233 --> 51:37.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
RUSSELL: - Fantastic.
Bravo! Bravo!
51:37.166 --> 51:37.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
[applause]
52:00.066 --> 52:02.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
STEVES: Yes, in so many ways,
52:02.500 --> 52:05.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
the Europeans
of the romantic age,
52:05.166 --> 52:08.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the 19th century,
laid the groundwork for
52:08.233 --> 52:12.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the freedoms that we enjoy
today in the 21st century.
52:12.666 --> 52:16.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And that European passion
for freedom continues.
52:16.600 --> 52:19.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
The biggest news
of our generation
52:19.333 --> 52:22.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is the transformation of
that long bickering continent
52:22.900 --> 52:26.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
into a peaceful union,
The European Union.
52:26.733 --> 52:29.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
While in practice,
it's tough to get
52:29.166 --> 52:32.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that unwieldy collection of
proud and distinct nations
52:32.666 --> 52:35.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to do anything in unison,
the motto of
52:35.633 --> 52:39.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the European Union
is United in Diversity.
52:39.933 --> 52:42.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And one thing Europe
can do well together
52:42.500 --> 52:46.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is to embrace the ideals
of its official anthem.
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Our final stop is
a piece conceived in
52:49.500 --> 52:52.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that 19th century
spirit of revolution,
52:52.900 --> 52:56.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
set to a poem about
universal brotherhood.
52:56.333 --> 52:59.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
This anthem is as relevant today
52:59.633 --> 53:02.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
as the day Beethoven
set pen to paper.
53:02.800 --> 53:06.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
It calls on all people
to come together,
53:06.066 --> 53:08.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to be united joyfully
in their diversity
53:08.633 --> 53:11.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and to celebrate freedom.
53:11.466 --> 53:15.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now, the finale of our
Symphonic Journey,
53:15.100 --> 53:18.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the official anthem of
the European Union,
53:18.300 --> 53:21.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
53:21.700 --> 53:23.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
[music: Ode to Joy by Beethoven]
54:28.100 --> 54:29.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
[cheers & applause]
55:15.900 --> 55:19.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
RUSSELL: And now
our musical homecoming.
55:19.200 --> 55:24.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Welcome back to the USA.
Take it away, Rick.
55:24.400 --> 55:25.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
[music: Stars and
Stripes Forever by Sousa]
57:25.800 --> 57:27.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
[cheers & applause]
58:04.100 --> 58:06.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
STEVES: Yeah,
what a concert that would be.
58:08.133 --> 58:09.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
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