1 00:00:11,230 --> 00:00:15,607 ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL 2 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,638 Ooooh! Go on... 3 00:01:37,547 --> 00:01:38,686 ....try it out 4 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:41,823 The acoustics are marvelous 5 00:01:43,184 --> 00:01:44,429 It was an ancient oratory 6 00:01:46,003 --> 00:01:49,193 Along there, are the tombs of3 popes 7 00:01:49,585 --> 00:01:50,759 ....and 7 bishops 8 00:01:52,856 --> 00:01:54,516 It's a graveyard in here 9 00:01:57,727 --> 00:01:59,779 In 1871... 10 00:02:00,545 --> 00:02:03,985 ....this oratory became a true auditorium 11 00:02:04,685 --> 00:02:07,152 ....for both vocal and instrumental concerts 12 00:02:07,712 --> 00:02:10,179 All the courts of Europe envied us for it 13 00:02:10,878 --> 00:02:13,476 For its acoustics 14 00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:17,033 Ooooh, hear it? 15 00:02:17,558 --> 00:02:20,334 The sound is limpid, without echo 16 00:02:20,725 --> 00:02:22,669 Ideal for listening to music 17 00:02:23,542 --> 00:02:25,618 Without any reverberation 18 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,105 That podium was... 19 00:02:29,875 --> 00:02:32,792 ....for the world's great conductors... 20 00:02:33,006 --> 00:02:34,286 ....a mark of achievement 21 00:02:35,615 --> 00:02:36,824 What musicians! 22 00:02:37,285 --> 00:02:39,397 And the people! 23 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:43,230 There were ministers, ambassadors, clergy 24 00:02:43,478 --> 00:02:45,174 They'd bring their own score... 25 00:02:45,670 --> 00:02:48,267 ....to follow the music 26 00:02:49,984 --> 00:02:52,831 And what beautiful ladies... elegant 27 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:54,321 ....audacious 28 00:02:55,516 --> 00:02:56,524 Playing tricks again? 29 00:02:58,647 --> 00:03:00,106 And the air was perfumed! 30 00:03:01,083 --> 00:03:02,577 ....there was another atmosphere... 31 00:03:03,344 --> 00:03:04,969 The public today is no longer the same 32 00:03:05,641 --> 00:03:08,001 I must be boring you with this chatter 33 00:03:14,339 --> 00:03:15,584 Everything is in place 34 00:03:17,853 --> 00:03:18,861 Beautiful, eh? 35 00:03:24,428 --> 00:03:27,797 But I'm only the copyist, second fiddle to everyone 36 00:03:28,081 --> 00:03:28,875 Another year... 37 00:03:30,272 --> 00:03:32,075 .... and off into retirement 38 00:03:34,691 --> 00:03:35,557 I'll return... 39 00:03:35,839 --> 00:03:37,571 ....only to attend concerts 40 00:03:38,832 --> 00:03:39,662 That yes! 41 00:03:40,850 --> 00:03:42,273 I couldn't live without music 42 00:04:11,362 --> 00:04:13,379 Good morning to one and all! 43 00:04:13,763 --> 00:04:16,432 I heard some TV people are coming to do... 44 00:04:16,616 --> 00:04:20,020 ....a documentary about our orchestra. This beautiful... 45 00:04:20,234 --> 00:04:23,603 ....auditorium was once a church 46 00:04:23,818 --> 00:04:25,585 ....of the 13th century, as you must know 47 00:04:25,870 --> 00:04:29,797 There, you can see ancient tombs and... 48 00:04:29,976 --> 00:04:31,850 I already told them 49 00:04:32,863 --> 00:04:34,523 Oh, I'm the first violinist 50 00:04:35,090 --> 00:04:38,352 Good morning, Mirella 51 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:42,769 Can somebody help with this cover? It weighs a ton 52 00:04:42,988 --> 00:04:46,878 Here, let me 53 00:04:48,311 --> 00:04:51,466 Don't say anything. TV people are here 54 00:04:55,756 --> 00:04:58,353 I'd like to know what they do with these chairs! 55 00:04:59,548 --> 00:05:02,538 Dirty Filthy! 56 00:05:17,570 --> 00:05:18,116 They'll break! 57 00:05:20,876 --> 00:05:21,362 ....Break wind! 58 00:05:23,242 --> 00:05:25,080 I'm having a sauna at 4, no matter what 59 00:05:25,782 --> 00:05:28,901 ....a snake, a lion... about thirty positions in all 60 00:05:29,121 --> 00:05:32,455 ....but it's all a mental approach 61 00:05:32,775 --> 00:05:34,163 There's no hurry... 62 00:05:34,897 --> 00:05:36,142 ....You're doing wonderfully 63 00:05:37,193 --> 00:05:39,518 To me he looks worse than the last time 64 00:05:39,733 --> 00:05:43,766 Oh, Professor, with us again! 65 00:05:44,743 --> 00:05:46,819 I'll bet the Professor here... 66 00:05:47,248 --> 00:05:48,908 ....that within 4 months... 67 00:05:49,266 --> 00:05:51,519 Professor, my Uncle Quintilio... 68 00:05:52,014 --> 00:05:54,410 ....ravished them all for sixty years straight 69 00:05:54,728 --> 00:05:57,539 Big eater. Drinker. Exceptional stud 70 00:05:58,591 --> 00:06:01,058 Everyone said: he can't last 71 00:06:01,234 --> 00:06:03,701 Well, let me tell you, he's 93 72 00:06:04,122 --> 00:06:08,049 ....and still going strong 73 00:06:10,002 --> 00:06:11,461 "One of Werther's sons?" 74 00:06:11,985 --> 00:06:13,195 ....begins with G 75 00:06:13,307 --> 00:06:15,881 What rotten people you run into... 76 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,533 ....the light turned green 77 00:06:20,127 --> 00:06:22,179 ....but he just stood there 78 00:06:22,910 --> 00:06:26,065 I tapped the horn and said I was late for a rehearsal 79 00:06:26,528 --> 00:06:29,304 Then, as if eyeing a turd, he says: 80 00:06:29,625 --> 00:06:31,950 "What's there to rehearse? It's obvious..." 81 00:06:32,129 --> 00:06:33,789 "...you'll never learn" 82 00:06:38,288 --> 00:06:41,099 You're listening to the soccer game? Not me... 83 00:06:41,315 --> 00:06:42,667 ....I'm too nervous 84 00:06:43,298 --> 00:06:44,650 Your barometer? 85 00:06:44,933 --> 00:06:48,752 Let's see what old faithful says 86 00:06:48,934 --> 00:06:51,151 Oh, it's gone up another 15% 87 00:06:51,474 --> 00:06:54,700 ....the prospects aren't too good for my violin 88 00:06:55,162 --> 00:06:56,786 How's the octopus? 89 00:06:56,971 --> 00:06:59,746 Ah, it's a battle! The thing's always there... 90 00:07:00,311 --> 00:07:01,805 ....lying in ambush 91 00:07:02,015 --> 00:07:02,952 What a bitch! 92 00:07:03,512 --> 00:07:06,952 Go ahead keep up this shit about my nightmares 93 00:07:07,825 --> 00:07:10,222 Don't get pissed, Professor, it's bad for you 94 00:07:10,957 --> 00:07:14,255 Our neurosis is the that's strangling us 95 00:07:19,342 --> 00:07:22,118 We paid a fortune for him, but wasn't it worth it? 96 00:07:24,108 --> 00:07:24,594 What's that? 97 00:07:25,291 --> 00:07:27,829 A depressant 98 00:07:28,422 --> 00:07:30,047 I've tried them all, no improvement 99 00:07:31,379 --> 00:07:32,660 ....perhaps worse 100 00:07:36,529 --> 00:07:38,961 Why doesn't it play? -look... 101 00:07:55,421 --> 00:07:56,915 Assholes! 102 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,386 "8 and a Half" is a psycho- analytical film? Get with it 103 00:08:00,604 --> 00:08:03,344 Brush up! What's with you? 104 00:08:03,667 --> 00:08:05,327 How can I play? Hey, barometer... 105 00:08:06,276 --> 00:08:08,980 ....put the chair where it belongs so I can play 106 00:08:10,486 --> 00:08:12,467 No, sorry... It's too close to the stand. 107 00:08:12,608 --> 00:08:14,755 I must sit there 108 00:08:15,217 --> 00:08:18,550 I must. Be courteous I forgot... 109 00:08:18,732 --> 00:08:21,092 ....my glasses 110 00:08:21,515 --> 00:08:24,705 I'm not here for courtesies, but to play! 111 00:08:25,272 --> 00:08:26,801 l, here! 112 00:08:27,429 --> 00:08:28,294 l, there! 113 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,454 This is my place 114 00:08:30,873 --> 00:08:32,854 You're offensive... THERE! 115 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:33,681 ....HERE! 116 00:08:34,422 --> 00:08:36,676 You sick in the head?... Stop it! 117 00:08:36,893 --> 00:08:38,138 You stop! 118 00:08:56,689 --> 00:08:58,077 ....your attention please 119 00:08:59,611 --> 00:09:01,449 A distinguished guest: 120 00:09:02,186 --> 00:09:03,016 ....Television 121 00:09:03,717 --> 00:09:04,998 With technicians 122 00:09:05,665 --> 00:09:07,646 ....and director, for coverage 123 00:09:07,788 --> 00:09:08,998 ....of our orchestra rehearsal 124 00:09:10,641 --> 00:09:12,337 ....And interviews 125 00:09:13,041 --> 00:09:15,117 You're better off if we're not interviewed 126 00:09:15,686 --> 00:09:16,480 otherwise I'll tell 127 00:09:17,565 --> 00:09:18,703 Tell what? 128 00:09:19,338 --> 00:09:20,726 That you get a kickback 129 00:09:21,634 --> 00:09:23,995 For your participation 130 00:09:24,140 --> 00:09:25,693 ....and your union representative agrees... 131 00:09:25,845 --> 00:09:27,054 Compensation: nix 132 00:09:28,036 --> 00:09:30,018 No one made any agreement 133 00:09:31,272 --> 00:09:34,641 It's a special job! For special rates! 134 00:09:35,134 --> 00:09:36,557 It's not special 135 00:09:36,873 --> 00:09:38,297 No, nothing doing! 136 00:09:39,378 --> 00:09:40,908 We're not in agreement 137 00:09:41,571 --> 00:09:43,718 Theoretically, we could even accept 138 00:09:43,971 --> 00:09:45,668 ....but not the Union 139 00:09:46,476 --> 00:09:48,420 It's the usual hedging with State Television 140 00:09:48,599 --> 00:09:49,844 that's never solved 141 00:09:50,304 --> 00:09:52,320 Let your representative tell you 142 00:09:52,878 --> 00:09:54,787 Calm down, people... 143 00:09:55,104 --> 00:09:57,429 We're already poorly paid... 144 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:58,853 ....but TV wants us for nothing 145 00:09:59,071 --> 00:10:08,074 The public loves music and the ones who play it. 146 00:10:08,743 --> 00:10:10,819 ....but the minute it becomes a program... 147 00:10:11,247 --> 00:10:13,264 For filming us, at least a token 148 00:10:13,509 --> 00:10:14,304 ....a gift 149 00:10:15,075 --> 00:10:16,605 No one is obliged 150 00:10:16,814 --> 00:10:19,317 ....whoever grants the interview 151 00:10:19,529 --> 00:10:21,261 ....grants it. Who doesn't want, doesn't grant 152 00:10:21,406 --> 00:10:21,952 How silly! Numbskulls! 153 00:10:22,172 --> 00:10:24,533 Allow me to turn your attention to something... 154 00:10:24,712 --> 00:10:26,894 What kind of representative are you? 155 00:10:33,549 --> 00:10:35,910 What an insult! Dumb heads! 156 00:10:39,777 --> 00:10:42,694 I dreamt there was a horse in my room 157 00:10:43,117 --> 00:10:44,255 That's not good 158 00:10:44,787 --> 00:10:48,013 ....Though it depends on the horse's color 159 00:10:48,231 --> 00:10:48,955 Shitheads! 160 00:10:56,651 --> 00:10:58,311 You want to interview me? 161 00:10:59,817 --> 00:11:02,106 I prepared it 162 00:11:02,739 --> 00:11:04,364 ....he helped me with it through 163 00:11:05,836 --> 00:11:08,718 "The piano is like a king on a throne" 164 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:11,327 "Immobile. One must go to it" 165 00:11:11,576 --> 00:11:14,945 "Bow down. Near the stool to it" 166 00:11:15,613 --> 00:11:18,733 "It's like a mythological creature"... his doing 167 00:11:19,578 --> 00:11:24,928 "A room with a piano becomes its room" 168 00:11:26,329 --> 00:11:28,476 "It's an instrument of royal courts" 169 00:11:28,833 --> 00:11:31,229 What was that, Sir? 170 00:11:32,904 --> 00:11:35,573 I said I once played at court 171 00:11:35,965 --> 00:11:38,635 Before Victor Emanuel III 172 00:11:38,958 --> 00:11:40,452 And you weren't shot? 173 00:11:43,863 --> 00:11:47,541 I don't want a piano, I mean I have one but... 174 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,776 ....it needn't be mine 175 00:11:50,125 --> 00:11:52,557 All the pianos of the world are that piano 176 00:11:53,048 --> 00:11:55,195 To play mine alone... 177 00:11:55,554 --> 00:11:57,736 ....would be limiting... would be restrictive 178 00:11:58,337 --> 00:11:59,890 I think... 179 00:12:00,841 --> 00:12:03,997 ....that to realize one's self, one must... 180 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:05,185 ....be aware 181 00:12:06,687 --> 00:12:08,631 ....that is, be more aware of people 182 00:12:08,844 --> 00:12:11,620 ....have more acquaintances 183 00:12:12,010 --> 00:12:14,750 Okay! I'm from Marina di Pisa 184 00:12:15,524 --> 00:12:17,291 ....but I took up the flute in California 185 00:12:18,064 --> 00:12:19,938 ....Where's it's played sweeter, less violently 186 00:12:20,256 --> 00:12:22,758 The flute is a delicate instrument 187 00:12:22,970 --> 00:12:25,887 The most similar to the human voice 188 00:12:26,066 --> 00:12:29,671 Even if they say that about the cello 189 00:12:29,858 --> 00:12:31,696 ....and saxophone 190 00:12:31,876 --> 00:12:33,820 ....and probably the drum! 191 00:12:36,155 --> 00:12:38,693 It's funny because choral groups say... 192 00:12:38,835 --> 00:12:42,061 ....they sound like an instrument! But really... 193 00:12:42,244 --> 00:12:44,497 ....only the flute has that human quality 194 00:12:45,097 --> 00:12:48,431 What a mysterious sound... supernatural! 195 00:12:49,028 --> 00:12:51,661 It even tames wild beasts 196 00:12:51,916 --> 00:12:54,454 Didn't Apollo use the flute to awaken the dead? 197 00:12:55,430 --> 00:13:00,116 It's the instrument of magic spells, both solar and lunar 198 00:13:00,335 --> 00:13:03,253 ....why flutists are all so batty 199 00:13:03,849 --> 00:13:06,909 It's true. That's what they say 200 00:13:07,329 --> 00:13:09,582 Maybe because they blow and blow... 201 00:13:09,939 --> 00:13:13,723 ....and all that wind goes to their heads, right? 202 00:13:14,531 --> 00:13:17,235 Everyone expects us to... 203 00:13:17,418 --> 00:13:19,600 ....do something strange, who knows why? 204 00:13:26,012 --> 00:13:27,850 The trombone is a unique instrument 205 00:13:28,795 --> 00:13:31,784 ....with a grave voice, that admonishes with kindness 206 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,130 And also very comical, accompanying clowns 207 00:13:36,310 --> 00:13:38,219 ....as they squirt water and take falls 208 00:13:38,433 --> 00:13:40,165 It's the instrument of angels! 209 00:13:40,346 --> 00:13:44,273 That's true, in Renaissance paintings you'll see... 210 00:13:44,451 --> 00:13:45,554 ....angels with trombones 211 00:13:45,773 --> 00:13:47,920 Received by the Lord to trombone music... 212 00:13:48,105 --> 00:13:50,216 ....fantastic 213 00:13:50,435 --> 00:13:52,167 The trombone is the voice... 214 00:13:52,314 --> 00:13:53,844 ....of a solitary being 215 00:13:54,576 --> 00:13:57,043 I love to listen to it along the beach 216 00:13:57,255 --> 00:13:59,437 ....in wintertime 217 00:14:24,636 --> 00:14:28,147 I have nothing to say, really 218 00:14:28,393 --> 00:14:31,489 I was looking at that hanging cobweb 219 00:14:31,873 --> 00:14:34,446 5 or 6 yards long, isn't it? 220 00:14:34,725 --> 00:14:37,323 With the trombones blowing... 221 00:14:37,474 --> 00:14:40,250 ....it swayed back and forth. Look, look, see it? 222 00:14:40,467 --> 00:14:42,969 ....the spider, up there? 223 00:14:43,180 --> 00:14:44,389 ....hanging from the thread? 224 00:14:44,710 --> 00:14:47,451 See it? 225 00:14:48,538 --> 00:14:50,377 Isn't it wonderful that we're here to make... 226 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:53,023 ....a spider go on a swing 227 00:14:53,443 --> 00:14:56,219 Take a look at it 228 00:14:56,574 --> 00:14:58,591 That little spider... 229 00:14:58,732 --> 00:15:00,605 ....while the trombones played... 230 00:15:04,646 --> 00:15:06,378 Can you spare a minute? 231 00:15:07,116 --> 00:15:08,361 ....for a frivolous question? 232 00:15:09,413 --> 00:15:11,738 Is it true there are likes and dislikes 233 00:15:11,952 --> 00:15:13,577 between instruments? 234 00:15:14,284 --> 00:15:16,122 Absolutely, definite likes and dislikes 235 00:15:16,301 --> 00:15:20,299 We get along with the bass 236 00:15:20,512 --> 00:15:23,085 ....because it keeps time, tight and even 237 00:15:23,260 --> 00:15:27,602 Without flourishes, trills or "arpeggios" 238 00:15:27,818 --> 00:15:29,799 The piano is a chatterbox 239 00:15:30,044 --> 00:15:32,333 And violins bleed 240 00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:34,661 In Italy they concentrate less on rhythm 241 00:15:35,472 --> 00:15:39,077 More on singing. Neapolitans have a good sense of rhythm 242 00:15:39,299 --> 00:15:41,102 They're the best drummers 243 00:15:41,770 --> 00:15:43,502 Who invented the Tarantella? The Neapolitans 244 00:15:43,891 --> 00:15:47,746 I'd say the rhythm instruments... 245 00:15:47,788 --> 00:15:49,176 ....are liked 246 00:15:49,215 --> 00:15:51,611 ....they got humor. Yeah, they're friendly 247 00:15:52,172 --> 00:15:54,010 What he says is true 248 00:15:54,155 --> 00:15:56,302 That air of sufficiency... 249 00:15:56,869 --> 00:15:58,328 The condescending tone... 250 00:15:59,235 --> 00:16:01,737 The haughtiness... of a violin, or a flute 251 00:16:02,262 --> 00:16:05,179 ....as it takes its place, just doesn't exist with us 252 00:16:06,159 --> 00:16:07,890 Let a Neapolitan in an orchestra... 253 00:16:08,072 --> 00:16:10,919 and what's he become? The tympanist, the drummer 254 00:16:11,099 --> 00:16:13,910 ....it makes him feel happy 255 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,980 A little rhythm even helps the Maestro... 256 00:16:18,161 --> 00:16:20,664 to get unwound. Even the oboe 257 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,749 forgets that it's gloomy, and begins smiling 258 00:16:26,372 --> 00:16:29,005 I don't want to be interviewed, or photographed 259 00:16:29,190 --> 00:16:32,144 I don't want to be mistaken for someone else 260 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,730 Try asking him 261 00:16:37,262 --> 00:16:37,949 Professor... 262 00:16:39,176 --> 00:16:41,014 Would you mind answering? 263 00:16:41,263 --> 00:16:42,923 Actually, you don't deserve it 264 00:16:43,281 --> 00:16:45,534 Without compensation, I shouldn't bother. However... 265 00:16:45,717 --> 00:16:47,733 ....go ahead 266 00:16:48,117 --> 00:16:50,620 Let's see... Tell me about your cello 267 00:16:50,866 --> 00:16:54,934 It's one of the essential instruments of an orchestra 268 00:16:55,179 --> 00:16:57,849 You might say that the violin and cello... 269 00:16:58,032 --> 00:17:00,606 ....are the foundations 270 00:17:00,781 --> 00:17:04,743 ....upon which all symphonic concerts are built 271 00:17:04,921 --> 00:17:07,247 The pillars. Am I wrong? -Yes... 272 00:17:08,679 --> 00:17:09,853 I'll explain the violin... 273 00:17:11,532 --> 00:17:14,866 The 1st violin is the brain, the heart of the orchestra 274 00:17:15,150 --> 00:17:16,953 And the clarinet is the cock! 275 00:17:21,343 --> 00:17:25,862 Look, I'd say the cello comes close... 276 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,152 ....to being the "ideal friend". It's... 277 00:17:28,789 --> 00:17:31,909 ....the true friend ....discreet, faithful. 278 00:17:32,303 --> 00:17:33,619 Not like the violin 279 00:17:34,147 --> 00:17:36,329 The violin is seductive, fascinating 280 00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:38,207 ....but deceiving 281 00:17:38,530 --> 00:17:39,217 It's female 282 00:17:40,165 --> 00:17:41,517 Oh, what horseshit! 283 00:17:42,010 --> 00:17:43,742 You don't agree? 284 00:17:44,618 --> 00:17:49,138 No, I don't agree, because for us the violin... 285 00:17:49,316 --> 00:17:52,471 ....is the most virile instrument in the orchestra 286 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:54,952 It's female! 287 00:17:55,230 --> 00:17:56,890 Isn't "she" always seducing? 288 00:17:57,318 --> 00:18:00,164 Well, if we want to play games... 289 00:18:00,345 --> 00:18:02,705 ....it's totally masculine 290 00:18:03,197 --> 00:18:05,214 ....it's penetrating, phallic! 291 00:18:06,677 --> 00:18:08,444 I agree with my gentle colleague 292 00:18:09,217 --> 00:18:11,922 It's not at all feminine, there's nothing... 293 00:18:12,104 --> 00:18:15,330 ....languid about it. It's vibrant and always modern 294 00:18:15,514 --> 00:18:19,262 In the Conservatories it is still the preferred... 295 00:18:19,445 --> 00:18:21,105 ....instrument 296 00:18:23,551 --> 00:18:25,876 The cello is chronically sad 297 00:18:26,090 --> 00:18:28,795 The violin is the true diva of the orchestra 298 00:18:29,153 --> 00:18:31,229 I was saying that the first violin... 299 00:18:31,449 --> 00:18:33,181 ....is the star of the orchestra 300 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,553 When unfortunately we have a conductor who doesn't keep... 301 00:18:39,729 --> 00:18:41,188 ....the tempo, and misses his cues 302 00:18:41,573 --> 00:18:42,747 ....one who lacks authority 303 00:18:43,521 --> 00:18:45,774 ....and we can tell immediately 304 00:18:45,957 --> 00:18:47,724 as soon as he reaches the podium 305 00:18:47,905 --> 00:18:49,221 ....and raises the baton 306 00:18:49,784 --> 00:18:53,912 It's the first violin... ....who controls the situation 307 00:18:54,098 --> 00:18:56,281 ....and guides the orchestra 308 00:18:56,673 --> 00:18:59,899 ....literally substituting... ....the conductor 309 00:19:00,465 --> 00:19:02,612 Whose hand does the conductor shake 310 00:19:03,527 --> 00:19:05,638 ....when the applause comes? 311 00:19:05,858 --> 00:19:07,412 The first violinist's 312 00:19:07,458 --> 00:19:09,889 I once told a conductor: 313 00:19:10,242 --> 00:19:12,982 "You're in love with brass" 314 00:19:13,269 --> 00:19:14,240 "That's your speed: bandmaster!" 315 00:19:15,912 --> 00:19:17,928 How does that fit in? 316 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,134 Getting back to the cello, it's certainly 317 00:19:22,314 --> 00:19:25,196 ....an instrument that will never betray you 318 00:19:25,584 --> 00:19:29,333 Once it has chosen you it remains faithful 319 00:19:31,081 --> 00:19:31,567 The bassoon... 320 00:19:32,577 --> 00:19:34,416 good for clowns 321 00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:36,683 I owe everything to the violin. 322 00:19:37,309 --> 00:19:39,563 It helped me take wing ahead of time 323 00:19:40,302 --> 00:19:41,582 In what sense? 324 00:19:42,702 --> 00:19:45,335 It helped me discover where dissonances lie 325 00:19:48,304 --> 00:19:51,150 You're interviewing me? Then I'll go there 326 00:19:51,643 --> 00:19:53,969 That's my place 327 00:19:54,288 --> 00:19:57,242 Comb your hair before the red light goes on, Curly 328 00:19:57,593 --> 00:19:58,079 Yes, certainly... 329 00:19:59,993 --> 00:20:01,097 The clarinet? 330 00:20:01,628 --> 00:20:05,104 It led me out of the fog of my hometown. 331 00:20:05,735 --> 00:20:08,475 A village... ....in the Po Valley: Gazoldo 332 00:20:08,518 --> 00:20:11,993 From August to April of the following year... 333 00:20:12,344 --> 00:20:13,660 ....it's invisible 334 00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:17,170 The bell tower vanishes, the school vanishes... and 335 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:19,883 Let me explain: thanks to the clarinet... 336 00:20:20,069 --> 00:20:23,259 ....I traveled the world. And even met... 337 00:20:23,443 --> 00:20:26,148 ....the great Toscanini, who told me: 338 00:20:26,644 --> 00:20:29,005 "Bravo, young fellow, finally..." 339 00:20:29,184 --> 00:20:33,253 "I hear a nice clarinet sound." His words 340 00:20:34,089 --> 00:20:37,529 "Finally, I hear a nice clarinet sound!" 341 00:20:37,777 --> 00:20:40,873 And you said? -What could I say 342 00:20:41,222 --> 00:20:43,369 to a Toscanini who tells you: 343 00:20:43,518 --> 00:20:46,508 "Bravo, finally I hear a nice clarinet sound" 344 00:20:46,754 --> 00:20:48,343 What did he say? 345 00:20:49,432 --> 00:20:52,065 Didn't you hear? "Bravo, young fellow..." 346 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:54,920 "finally I hear a nice clarinet sound" 347 00:20:55,521 --> 00:20:56,909 Who was playing? 348 00:20:57,191 --> 00:20:57,843 I was! 349 00:21:00,671 --> 00:21:02,687 ....a truly fantastic instrument 350 00:21:03,141 --> 00:21:06,332 ....engaging. Not only for its miraculous 351 00:21:06,515 --> 00:21:08,496 ....possibilities. With a trumpet... 352 00:21:09,334 --> 00:21:11,694 ....you can venture into incredible music acrobatics.. 353 00:21:12,047 --> 00:21:13,114 No! What's extraordinary... 354 00:21:14,030 --> 00:21:16,141 ....is that it allows you to express what's inside you 355 00:21:16,361 --> 00:21:20,430 ....joy, sadness... even silence 356 00:21:20,711 --> 00:21:25,823 Claudio, you better talk to this guy 357 00:21:26,869 --> 00:21:29,751 Pipe down, I'm being interviewed here! 358 00:21:30,834 --> 00:21:32,815 A mistake... it happens 359 00:21:33,479 --> 00:21:35,590 The trumpet is a passport to... 360 00:21:36,331 --> 00:21:37,719 a greater dimension 361 00:21:38,523 --> 00:21:40,397 Who plays it, understands 362 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:42,378 A dimension of fullness 363 00:21:43,465 --> 00:21:45,197 Everything is more intense, more sublime 364 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:48,612 Ask any trumpet player... we're quite a few 365 00:21:49,622 --> 00:21:53,026 Tell him how we trumpets study harder than anyone 366 00:21:53,206 --> 00:21:54,451 What was that? 367 00:21:54,598 --> 00:21:57,195 It's true 368 00:21:57,450 --> 00:22:01,484 We spend hours making our lips supple 369 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:03,083 ....before we begin playing 370 00:22:04,304 --> 00:22:06,557 The margin of error allowed to other instruments 371 00:22:06,914 --> 00:22:08,503 ....isn't tolerated for the trumpet 372 00:22:09,106 --> 00:22:12,095 Aren't the strings just as demanding? 373 00:22:12,376 --> 00:22:15,887 A clinker on a trumpet is death 374 00:22:16,551 --> 00:22:18,425 ....it has become a mania... I can't sleep... 375 00:22:18,812 --> 00:22:21,873 ....I'm a sleepwalker... 376 00:22:22,083 --> 00:22:24,230 They found me wandering outside in pajamas 377 00:22:24,414 --> 00:22:26,395 ....playing the trumpet 378 00:22:27,754 --> 00:22:30,743 I'm always terrified of going sour 379 00:22:30,955 --> 00:22:32,508 You've worked quite a lot... 380 00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:36,968 Hey, "paragraph 9"! You've had it with me 381 00:22:37,147 --> 00:22:39,473 You can go play in a jukebox 382 00:22:40,036 --> 00:22:42,432 There's no muzzling in 383 00:22:42,575 --> 00:22:45,042 without getting cleared through personnel 384 00:22:45,219 --> 00:22:45,835 You understand? 385 00:23:01,189 --> 00:23:03,442 Yes, I'm the Union Representative 386 00:23:03,590 --> 00:23:05,048 for this category Glad to answer you. 387 00:23:06,721 --> 00:23:08,274 We've freed musicians... 388 00:23:08,495 --> 00:23:10,227 ....from a state of intolerable servility 389 00:23:10,756 --> 00:23:12,665 The music worker today has reestablished 390 00:23:13,192 --> 00:23:14,508 ....his dignity 391 00:23:14,931 --> 00:23:17,184 He's not a minstrel, or the puppet 392 00:23:17,437 --> 00:23:18,753 ....of conductors and agents 393 00:23:19,316 --> 00:23:21,913 But an integrated worker, conscious of his contribution 394 00:23:22,099 --> 00:23:23,202 ....to mass culture 395 00:23:23,908 --> 00:23:26,481 How did we achieve this? 396 00:23:26,622 --> 00:23:29,576 By safeguarding his prestige as a professional 397 00:23:29,753 --> 00:23:31,900 ....through union struggles 398 00:23:32,466 --> 00:23:37,294 From equitable salary demands to... 399 00:23:37,477 --> 00:23:38,792 ....the elimination of mediators! 400 00:23:38,937 --> 00:23:40,432 Keep quiet! 401 00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:43,519 From reconstructing the organic whole... 402 00:23:43,705 --> 00:23:45,365 of the orchestra 403 00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:48,148 ....to the shifting of progressive objectives... 404 00:23:51,428 --> 00:23:53,646 I thought we agreed... What will I do with him... 405 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:54,269 A mouse! 406 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:58,551 There! Behind the painting 407 00:23:59,395 --> 00:24:02,242 It's behind there. -It's huge! 408 00:24:03,083 --> 00:24:06,689 There it is! 409 00:24:07,989 --> 00:24:08,961 Don't kill it! 410 00:24:15,991 --> 00:24:17,829 They're opening all the sewers 411 00:24:17,974 --> 00:24:18,946 with their reconstructions 412 00:24:19,922 --> 00:24:21,511 Burn it! You gotta burn it! 413 00:24:24,307 --> 00:24:24,958 Let's fry it 414 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,254 Careful! Catch it 415 00:24:27,821 --> 00:24:31,261 It won't die. It bites 416 00:24:33,144 --> 00:24:35,682 I don't want to see it! 417 00:24:36,762 --> 00:24:39,229 Let's stew it All right, throw it out. 418 00:24:40,032 --> 00:24:41,941 You're disgusting 419 00:24:42,015 --> 00:24:43,509 Hey! Are we insured against rats! 420 00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:45,488 To your places! 421 00:24:48,522 --> 00:24:50,146 In place! The Maestro's here 422 00:25:03,865 --> 00:25:05,359 Our respects, Maestro 423 00:25:11,588 --> 00:25:13,569 How terrible! Please, no time now 424 00:25:13,746 --> 00:25:17,636 Put out dat light. Ja, I know... 425 00:25:17,885 --> 00:25:19,379 ....you from TV, but I'm against it 426 00:25:21,121 --> 00:25:21,737 Oboe!... 427 00:25:22,895 --> 00:25:23,832 My feet are freezing 428 00:25:26,758 --> 00:25:29,569 I forgot my wool booties at home 429 00:25:30,272 --> 00:25:32,454 Why you interested in rehearsals? 430 00:25:32,742 --> 00:25:35,102 This is a workshop. Or it should be 431 00:25:35,246 --> 00:25:37,678 ....where we try to put something together 432 00:25:37,856 --> 00:25:40,430 What are we doing now? 433 00:25:41,683 --> 00:25:43,557 ....trying to construct something 434 00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:46,164 Exactly for what purpose, I've... 435 00:25:46,345 --> 00:25:48,670 ....never understood. You excuse me now 436 00:25:49,685 --> 00:25:51,832 We will talk after 437 00:25:54,242 --> 00:25:55,595 That light, please 438 00:25:59,218 --> 00:26:00,392 The strings, only strings 439 00:26:14,318 --> 00:26:16,749 Violins, what's wrong, had an argument? 440 00:26:17,136 --> 00:26:19,497 Everyone is playing... 441 00:26:19,675 --> 00:26:21,787 ....for himself. Maybe because 442 00:26:21,937 --> 00:26:23,111 ....you belong to different parties? 443 00:26:24,164 --> 00:26:25,444 Why bother answering him? 444 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:27,009 Attention... 445 00:26:42,047 --> 00:26:43,505 Stop! Stop! 446 00:26:44,761 --> 00:26:47,263 With finesse! We're not in Amusement Park 447 00:26:47,405 --> 00:26:50,525 Sentiment, but with elegance. You're violins 448 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:51,778 ....not trumpets! 449 00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:56,966 Flute, it's an E-flat 450 00:26:57,356 --> 00:26:58,150 ....not natural 451 00:26:59,129 --> 00:27:00,789 Here it says E natural 452 00:27:01,495 --> 00:27:02,290 It's an E-flat 453 00:27:02,957 --> 00:27:06,112 It's E natural 454 00:27:06,505 --> 00:27:07,335 Correct it... 455 00:27:08,837 --> 00:27:10,913 For you it's always the copyist's fault! 456 00:27:11,550 --> 00:27:16,307 Clarinet, not... uhaaa! 457 00:27:16,664 --> 00:27:19,096 ....more delicate, poetic 458 00:27:19,274 --> 00:27:20,306 Why laughing? 459 00:27:21,048 --> 00:27:22,328 ....not comic 460 00:27:22,893 --> 00:27:25,218 Maestro, the whole phrase is hilarious 461 00:27:25,606 --> 00:27:27,966 Composer's intention was not hilarity 462 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:29,675 You laugh uselessly 463 00:27:29,851 --> 00:27:31,724 Listen... 464 00:27:36,461 --> 00:27:38,050 Even he's laughing 465 00:27:39,975 --> 00:27:41,149 It's very funny 466 00:27:41,923 --> 00:27:43,655 You're funnier than the music 467 00:27:48,986 --> 00:27:50,445 I'm sending you 4 clarinets 468 00:27:51,213 --> 00:27:53,751 Even if you need 1, you gotta take 4 469 00:28:02,241 --> 00:28:03,700 After, I'll tell you later 470 00:28:21,377 --> 00:28:23,453 Why didn't I stay in California? 471 00:29:15,374 --> 00:29:16,868 Where are we? 472 00:29:18,227 --> 00:29:19,507 ....on a soccer field? 473 00:29:20,210 --> 00:29:21,799 Take me for an umpire? 474 00:29:22,993 --> 00:29:24,938 Too strong! Too penetrating! 475 00:29:25,186 --> 00:29:26,538 Castrate yourselves 476 00:29:27,482 --> 00:29:30,293 He's right... the brass was too loud 477 00:29:34,057 --> 00:29:35,789 He's a riot! 478 00:29:40,632 --> 00:29:41,842 Put the sheets back, go on 479 00:29:43,973 --> 00:29:46,049 I'm also sending a certain Ciccio Calamida 480 00:29:47,104 --> 00:29:49,737 He plays nothing, but you gotta take him 481 00:29:50,026 --> 00:29:51,200 because the undersecretary... 482 00:29:51,627 --> 00:29:53,015 Why did he do that? 483 00:29:54,201 --> 00:29:56,004 To give us a little break? 484 00:29:56,881 --> 00:29:58,161 ....many thanks 485 00:29:59,316 --> 00:30:00,845 Remember the one who threw his watch at me? 486 00:30:01,369 --> 00:30:05,117 Tomorrow, though. If it's 400 I'll give you 20% 487 00:30:05,787 --> 00:30:08,847 Sunday at the beach and bring the kid 488 00:30:10,693 --> 00:30:12,425 Let's try the "Gallopade" 489 00:30:13,371 --> 00:30:14,272 ....from no. 15 490 00:30:37,239 --> 00:30:39,812 Alt! You got fear of strings? 491 00:30:39,988 --> 00:30:42,205 Or low blood pressure? Da capo! 492 00:31:07,856 --> 00:31:10,109 Alt! Oboe, too invading! 493 00:31:11,753 --> 00:31:14,113 ....give room to the others. Da capo! 494 00:31:40,317 --> 00:31:42,605 You tickle the strings 495 00:31:42,821 --> 00:31:45,811 ....you must slice! Saw! 496 00:31:46,265 --> 00:31:47,854 May I ask a question? 497 00:31:48,388 --> 00:31:50,464 Do you know what you're here for? 498 00:31:50,650 --> 00:31:54,778 I want compact sound. Da capo! 499 00:32:21,474 --> 00:32:23,099 That's it! Like that 500 00:32:23,736 --> 00:32:24,602 Go on! 501 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,052 I don't hear! More life 502 00:33:00,407 --> 00:33:01,546 Let me hear the bass! 503 00:33:04,130 --> 00:33:06,039 Don't fall behind! Weiter! 504 00:33:33,181 --> 00:33:35,363 Genauso! Break through! 505 00:33:35,686 --> 00:33:36,694 ....ACHTUNG! 506 00:34:19,488 --> 00:34:22,750 Toscanini clarinet, please be so kind... 507 00:34:22,932 --> 00:34:25,399 ....to repeat alone last four bars 508 00:34:25,577 --> 00:34:26,822 ....from no. 82 509 00:34:28,221 --> 00:34:32,040 No, I played it once then twice. The third time... 510 00:34:32,222 --> 00:34:34,238 ....by myself is against union regulations 511 00:34:34,832 --> 00:34:38,165 The passage must be executed by the entire orchestra 512 00:34:38,484 --> 00:34:40,667 What's he running, a school? 513 00:34:40,990 --> 00:34:44,845 I'd think less about unions and more... 514 00:34:45,025 --> 00:34:46,579 ....about music 515 00:34:49,374 --> 00:34:51,248 And yet I insist 516 00:34:51,428 --> 00:34:55,010 If Wagner had to worry about 517 00:34:55,184 --> 00:34:56,359 ....unions and strikes 518 00:34:57,029 --> 00:34:58,654 ....nix music and operas 519 00:34:59,047 --> 00:35:02,451 It's not the union's fault if he wrote lousy music 520 00:35:02,979 --> 00:35:04,508 Ja... there's no peace 521 00:35:05,170 --> 00:35:06,486 ....no calm, no silence 522 00:35:08,058 --> 00:35:09,446 It's a shit life 523 00:35:10,285 --> 00:35:12,503 Smear that shit on your baton and then 524 00:35:12,685 --> 00:35:13,409 ....give it a lick 525 00:35:17,382 --> 00:35:18,734 From 5-3-0 526 00:35:19,191 --> 00:35:20,127 The saxhorn, please 527 00:35:22,636 --> 00:35:23,359 What was that? 528 00:35:23,575 --> 00:35:23,955 Saxhorn? 529 00:35:25,732 --> 00:35:29,172 Not here 530 00:35:29,490 --> 00:35:30,593 Meaning what? 531 00:35:31,437 --> 00:35:32,991 I don't know. He's not here 532 00:35:33,178 --> 00:35:37,697 He "couldn't" come, why is that? 533 00:35:37,978 --> 00:35:40,054 You asking me? 534 00:35:40,310 --> 00:35:42,777 I'll restate it 535 00:35:42,919 --> 00:35:45,030 Not he "couldn't", but he "wouldn't" come... 536 00:35:45,285 --> 00:35:46,352 ....in protest 537 00:35:47,129 --> 00:35:49,110 With the Union's approval 538 00:35:49,286 --> 00:35:51,231 So who plays, somebody's sister? 539 00:35:51,965 --> 00:35:54,741 Leave our sisters alone 540 00:35:54,992 --> 00:35:56,546 ....let's keep the families out 541 00:35:56,870 --> 00:35:59,408 You said, "somebody's sister" 542 00:35:59,689 --> 00:36:00,519 I only meant a... 543 00:36:01,672 --> 00:36:04,210 ....hypothetical saxhorn sister 544 00:36:04,490 --> 00:36:06,079 I don't grasp such subtle humor 545 00:36:06,508 --> 00:36:09,604 You just worry about your baton 546 00:36:09,848 --> 00:36:12,244 ....and we'll take care of our relatives 547 00:36:18,302 --> 00:36:19,926 All right then, from 5-2-0 548 00:36:20,389 --> 00:36:23,545 Not now 549 00:36:24,008 --> 00:36:25,466 The orchestra is upset 550 00:36:26,339 --> 00:36:28,356 ....I doubt they can continue rehearsing 551 00:36:31,766 --> 00:36:34,684 What the devil do you want from me? 552 00:36:35,212 --> 00:36:37,952 See me lose my mind, you want? 553 00:36:38,203 --> 00:36:39,792 You want my ass? 554 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,985 Here, you got it! 555 00:36:47,318 --> 00:36:49,572 The orchestra will take a double break 556 00:36:49,893 --> 00:36:50,652 ....20 minutes 557 00:37:18,805 --> 00:37:21,166 The conductor? He's not too bad 558 00:37:21,588 --> 00:37:22,833 Bit hysterical, but within reason 559 00:37:23,050 --> 00:37:25,197 There's no need for conductors like that 560 00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:27,777 A metronome's better 561 00:37:29,869 --> 00:37:32,407 The public should sit in with us 562 00:37:32,582 --> 00:37:34,694 They'd hear the orchestra as if watching a.... 563 00:37:34,879 --> 00:37:37,275 ....battle in a movie 564 00:37:37,663 --> 00:37:39,501 ....or watching a real battle 565 00:37:40,271 --> 00:37:42,560 Ascetic. Tormented. Authoritative 566 00:37:43,473 --> 00:37:46,771 Magnetic... the identity of a great conductor! 567 00:37:47,021 --> 00:37:48,895 Then there are the mystics, the priest-like 568 00:37:49,074 --> 00:37:50,105 The acrobatic 569 00:37:50,917 --> 00:37:53,349 How 'bout that lion tamer? 570 00:37:53,632 --> 00:37:56,930 He'd turn into a harp, a violin, the drum 571 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,893 ....a kettledrum, even the bassoon, what a riot! 572 00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:01,632 When there's a TV camera... 573 00:38:01,982 --> 00:38:03,262 .... you can't shut up 574 00:38:04,208 --> 00:38:06,426 My Maestro up there has to look at me 575 00:38:06,609 --> 00:38:08,198 ....otherwise I'm jealous 576 00:38:13,671 --> 00:38:15,688 I'm on camera? 577 00:38:15,829 --> 00:38:18,296 "We're the lilies of the valley" 578 00:38:18,994 --> 00:38:20,762 "We're pure Romans" 579 00:38:21,292 --> 00:38:23,652 ....who's got friends? Who sees anybody? 580 00:38:24,596 --> 00:38:27,028 You come in, punch a card 581 00:38:27,276 --> 00:38:28,628 ....and pick it up later 582 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:29,458 It's a factory 583 00:38:30,511 --> 00:38:30,997 Me? 584 00:38:32,042 --> 00:38:34,224 I thought I'd tour the world with this 585 00:38:35,138 --> 00:38:36,169 ....but I'm always here 586 00:38:37,678 --> 00:38:39,172 I'm sick of it... 587 00:38:39,731 --> 00:38:41,320 ....this ridiculous fart horn... 588 00:38:42,410 --> 00:38:44,770 It makes me feel useless, it should be eliminated 589 00:38:45,575 --> 00:38:46,999 What's it good for? 590 00:38:47,628 --> 00:38:49,538 It can even be dangerous 591 00:38:49,716 --> 00:38:52,421 I give my all to shape a sound 592 00:38:52,604 --> 00:38:55,795 ....and out comes another fart 593 00:38:57,475 --> 00:38:59,004 I think... 594 00:38:59,632 --> 00:39:02,265 ....it's the very symbol of obtuseness 595 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:04,322 ....of a stolid mentality 596 00:39:04,468 --> 00:39:06,935 Of those relationships... 597 00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:09,296 ....in an orchestra, that inhibit 598 00:39:10,869 --> 00:39:12,008 ....any sort of contact 599 00:39:15,010 --> 00:39:17,062 I wanted to say that many of us are from the provinces 600 00:39:17,514 --> 00:39:18,486 What province?... 601 00:39:19,463 --> 00:39:21,302 I'm from Naples: "vaffanculo" 602 00:39:22,663 --> 00:39:24,466 The actual truth though 603 00:39:24,612 --> 00:39:26,450 ....is that we're limited 604 00:39:27,291 --> 00:39:28,536 ....culturally 605 00:39:29,448 --> 00:39:31,951 We've no real interests in anything 606 00:39:32,093 --> 00:39:34,904 We spend our lives with a piece of wood or tin 607 00:39:35,084 --> 00:39:37,551 ....blowing away, or plucking 608 00:39:37,728 --> 00:39:40,646 Blow your philosophy someplace else 609 00:39:42,286 --> 00:39:43,116 Anyway... 610 00:39:43,991 --> 00:39:45,165 All your gabbing about 611 00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:49,136 ....Unions, the organic whole, politics 612 00:39:49,523 --> 00:39:51,361 ....brass section, strings 613 00:39:51,506 --> 00:39:53,582 ....this or that conductor 614 00:39:53,767 --> 00:39:55,499 ....couldn't interest me less 615 00:39:56,203 --> 00:40:00,023 Because I can't get it up anymore 616 00:40:01,074 --> 00:40:01,939 That's the real tragedy 617 00:40:17,113 --> 00:40:19,853 Drink, drink, it's great for the liver and the brain 618 00:40:21,079 --> 00:40:22,110 Just a drop of wine... 619 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,138 ....picks me up 620 00:40:24,489 --> 00:40:26,221 A little drop can't hurt 621 00:40:26,611 --> 00:40:30,715 It's whiskey, I saw it 622 00:40:30,925 --> 00:40:33,701 ....and I even smell it 623 00:40:34,161 --> 00:40:38,538 Each to his own vices. Better to drink... 624 00:40:38,753 --> 00:40:40,176 ....than go molesting little girls 625 00:40:41,154 --> 00:40:44,760 They'll catch you one day. That's worse... 626 00:40:44,946 --> 00:40:45,456 ....than whiskey 627 00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:49,498 I didn't choose the tuba 628 00:40:50,234 --> 00:40:51,587 ....it chose me 629 00:40:52,774 --> 00:40:56,000 I loved the trumpet. It gave me goose pimples 630 00:40:56,427 --> 00:40:58,194 You remember in the army... 631 00:40:58,446 --> 00:40:59,833 ....when they played taps 632 00:41:10,031 --> 00:41:11,905 I'd get a lump in my throat 633 00:41:12,153 --> 00:41:14,335 ....and then go AWOL. 634 00:41:14,589 --> 00:41:15,798 I'm very sensitive 635 00:41:16,398 --> 00:41:17,678 All art makes me cry 636 00:41:19,181 --> 00:41:20,249 And that's not all... 637 00:41:21,687 --> 00:41:23,311 At times I could die 638 00:41:23,878 --> 00:41:24,744 Why? 639 00:41:24,922 --> 00:41:28,327 The world is evil 640 00:41:29,271 --> 00:41:30,587 Now I miss my father! 641 00:41:31,428 --> 00:41:32,851 What the fuck you saying? 642 00:41:33,481 --> 00:41:35,557 Let's talk about the instrument 643 00:41:35,985 --> 00:41:38,097 The fact that everybody refused it, moved me 644 00:41:38,978 --> 00:41:40,887 Poor tuba... like a stray dog 645 00:41:41,274 --> 00:41:44,714 I felt akin to it 646 00:41:45,449 --> 00:41:46,457 ....sad, and solitary... 647 00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:48,993 It's awkward like me 648 00:41:49,171 --> 00:41:51,912 We had to get together 649 00:41:52,512 --> 00:41:55,667 And we did. I did well, it was destiny! 650 00:41:56,791 --> 00:41:58,144 ....I'm attached to it 651 00:41:59,262 --> 00:42:00,293 ....we're true friends 652 00:42:03,193 --> 00:42:05,766 When things are down we go by the window 653 00:42:06,011 --> 00:42:08,028 ....look up at the moon 654 00:42:09,351 --> 00:42:11,332 ....and play a little solo from Verdi 655 00:42:11,682 --> 00:42:14,008 Like to hear it? Eh? 656 00:42:15,161 --> 00:42:16,620 A little piece, why not 657 00:42:40,385 --> 00:42:43,054 People react and interpret sounds, each in their own way 658 00:42:43,795 --> 00:42:45,183 It's a personal thing 659 00:42:45,569 --> 00:42:49,080 An F-sharp, or a B-flat 660 00:42:49,257 --> 00:42:50,954 ....can make some people swoon 661 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,223 ....and others vomit. That's the way the ball bounces 662 00:42:54,928 --> 00:42:56,909 Yes, true 663 00:42:57,433 --> 00:42:59,485 What a magnificent instrument the oboe is 664 00:43:00,390 --> 00:43:01,778 It's the oldest of all 665 00:43:02,582 --> 00:43:04,112 ....invented by the Chinese 666 00:43:05,609 --> 00:43:06,581 The most difficult 667 00:43:07,592 --> 00:43:08,387 The most delicate 668 00:43:09,923 --> 00:43:10,895 ....and most alone 669 00:43:11,732 --> 00:43:13,226 We oboists are isolated 670 00:43:13,820 --> 00:43:16,037 Envied, even disliked 671 00:43:17,821 --> 00:43:21,404 The orchestra has to reckon with the oboe 672 00:43:22,658 --> 00:43:24,911 The oboe sets down the laws 673 00:43:25,162 --> 00:43:28,388 The oboe established the diapason 674 00:43:28,710 --> 00:43:30,205 ....between the highest pitch 675 00:43:31,008 --> 00:43:32,739 ....and the lowest 676 00:43:33,721 --> 00:43:35,594 It's owing to this privilege 677 00:43:36,017 --> 00:43:37,713 ....that the violin hates the oboe 678 00:43:38,452 --> 00:43:42,486 ....and the oboe the violin 679 00:43:43,219 --> 00:43:45,330 It's an instrument 680 00:43:48,612 --> 00:43:51,423 ....of great spirituality 681 00:43:52,995 --> 00:43:54,869 He who plays it, develops... 682 00:43:56,022 --> 00:43:57,790 ....a sort of special power 683 00:44:00,476 --> 00:44:02,457 An interior vision 684 00:44:02,946 --> 00:44:04,262 ....which permits him 685 00:44:05,033 --> 00:44:07,014 ....to perceive the color of sound 686 00:44:08,373 --> 00:44:09,168 I play... 687 00:44:10,322 --> 00:44:11,009 ....and see 688 00:44:12,270 --> 00:44:14,037 ....an aura of gold 689 00:44:14,671 --> 00:44:16,023 ....luminous 690 00:44:16,272 --> 00:44:17,695 ....the color of sunlight... 691 00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:22,002 like a spreading reflection It's true... 692 00:44:22,568 --> 00:44:24,894 I once saw a thing... 693 00:44:25,177 --> 00:44:27,087 ....like a long streamer 694 00:44:28,761 --> 00:44:31,537 A supernatural experience! 695 00:44:32,311 --> 00:44:34,908 Let him hear. You care to hear? 696 00:44:35,128 --> 00:44:37,725 Certainly, if you're not bored 697 00:44:48,349 --> 00:44:49,488 Maestro?... Excuse me 698 00:44:53,116 --> 00:44:54,124 Another minute... 699 00:44:54,925 --> 00:44:55,956 ....he's taking a shower 700 00:44:58,473 --> 00:45:01,320 With the permanent conductor they once had... 701 00:45:02,023 --> 00:45:04,099 ....the musicians didn't carry on like this 702 00:45:05,779 --> 00:45:07,333 Everyone wore a tie! 703 00:45:08,007 --> 00:45:10,189 You were in trouble if you didn't 704 00:45:11,555 --> 00:45:15,374 Now I wouldn't be surprised if they soaked their feet... 705 00:45:15,556 --> 00:45:17,703 ....while playing. We had a strict rule 706 00:45:17,887 --> 00:45:21,185 Whoever went flat or missed his cue 707 00:45:21,784 --> 00:45:23,931 ....had to play standing 708 00:45:24,394 --> 00:45:26,647 For the length of the entire concert 709 00:45:27,073 --> 00:45:28,211 ....as punishment 710 00:45:29,751 --> 00:45:32,812 What? Sessions? Hour shifts? 711 00:45:32,987 --> 00:45:34,481 ....you worked all night 712 00:45:35,561 --> 00:45:37,957 Ah, how often I had to wait till dawn 713 00:45:38,971 --> 00:45:41,473 And the musicians, at dawn, dead tired... 714 00:45:42,485 --> 00:45:43,873 ....would applaud the conductor 715 00:45:44,572 --> 00:45:45,746 ....and thank him 716 00:45:47,251 --> 00:45:48,805 Oh, he was phenomenal 717 00:45:49,965 --> 00:45:52,812 ....he conducted with eyes closed, as if in a trance 718 00:45:53,131 --> 00:45:55,384 ....and yet saw everything. How?... 719 00:45:58,872 --> 00:46:02,170 When he had to give a player a calling down 720 00:46:02,873 --> 00:46:06,419 ....he could find words that would skin him alive 721 00:46:07,257 --> 00:46:09,309 And make him ill for a month 722 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,438 And with his baton? Such lashings... 723 00:46:13,623 --> 00:46:15,117 ....on the hands and fingers of those players 724 00:46:15,294 --> 00:46:16,883 who made a mistake 725 00:46:17,555 --> 00:46:19,607 It would hiss! 726 00:46:20,268 --> 00:46:23,779 Yet, you know something? They were happy 727 00:46:24,549 --> 00:46:27,182 ....for those hand raps 728 00:46:28,618 --> 00:46:30,765 They'd come up like school children 729 00:46:31,785 --> 00:46:33,588 ....hands held out and say: 730 00:46:34,047 --> 00:46:35,885 "My fault" 731 00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,386 "Hit me too... Me too, I was wrong" 732 00:46:38,952 --> 00:46:40,896 Those were the days! 733 00:46:42,814 --> 00:46:44,759 You see what he's doing? 734 00:46:45,493 --> 00:46:47,225 TAKE YOUR STICK AND CONDUCT MY PRICK 735 00:46:49,146 --> 00:46:50,155 You think that's right? 736 00:46:50,851 --> 00:46:52,381 Maybe now it's right 737 00:46:53,390 --> 00:46:54,564 No one knows anymore 738 00:47:03,411 --> 00:47:04,442 Maestro, there are... 739 00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:06,783 What else you want to know? 740 00:47:08,108 --> 00:47:10,741 I ask you: does music exist? No? 741 00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:14,359 Then the world doesn't exist. Only our habits do 742 00:47:14,544 --> 00:47:15,718 You may go... 743 00:47:18,824 --> 00:47:20,698 What meaning has music today? 744 00:47:22,128 --> 00:47:25,189 You think people know what music is? 745 00:47:26,408 --> 00:47:29,005 They consider themselves intelligent because they feel 746 00:47:29,192 --> 00:47:31,896 ....emotion in the gut. They're participating 747 00:47:32,531 --> 00:47:35,485 Beethoven makes them feel like knights in armor 748 00:47:37,716 --> 00:47:40,254 Some seem to be jumping out of their seats 749 00:47:45,265 --> 00:47:47,341 When I'm conducting, I'm always feeling ridiculous 750 00:47:49,823 --> 00:47:51,839 As if dead. I feel like a ghost 751 00:47:52,571 --> 00:47:55,382 Better I don't say these things. Cancel it! 752 00:47:56,329 --> 00:47:58,476 Today nothing is forgiven. One must be... 753 00:47:58,799 --> 00:48:00,496 ....always intelligent 754 00:48:01,582 --> 00:48:05,509 So let us say: music is... ....the world 755 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:08,919 When I conduct I own the world. 756 00:48:09,063 --> 00:48:10,343 I am a king 757 00:48:11,359 --> 00:48:14,028 You want to know really how I feel? 758 00:48:15,291 --> 00:48:18,896 Like a sergeant who must go kicking... 759 00:48:19,083 --> 00:48:19,735 ....everybody in the ass 760 00:48:20,996 --> 00:48:23,214 But absurd laws forbid me... 761 00:48:23,397 --> 00:48:24,677 ....to be a sergeant 762 00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:28,504 Certainly we have taken advantage of 763 00:48:28,685 --> 00:48:30,038 our privileged positions 764 00:48:30,286 --> 00:48:31,294 Excuse me... 765 00:48:33,208 --> 00:48:34,382 Ach, warm as usual 766 00:48:34,948 --> 00:48:36,228 ....no ice 767 00:48:38,670 --> 00:48:41,482 Talent is the child of whims and eccentricity 768 00:48:43,889 --> 00:48:46,807 I once asked a musician to remove his ring 769 00:48:46,986 --> 00:48:49,762 ....the twinkling of the stone bothered me 770 00:48:51,161 --> 00:48:54,565 And this seemed a caprice, the whim of a divo 771 00:48:54,988 --> 00:48:55,996 That may even be 772 00:48:57,388 --> 00:49:00,093 But an exuberant character for an artist 773 00:49:00,311 --> 00:49:02,944 ....is a vital charge 774 00:49:03,129 --> 00:49:05,038 ....for leading others, for interpreting symphonies 775 00:49:05,912 --> 00:49:06,458 Prosit 776 00:49:11,201 --> 00:49:13,383 But now this unique charge of the conductor 777 00:49:13,567 --> 00:49:14,361 is being contested 778 00:49:15,793 --> 00:49:16,623 The musicians?... 779 00:49:17,985 --> 00:49:19,681 ....don't look at them, don't see them 780 00:49:21,151 --> 00:49:23,618 Sometimes they have unbearable face 781 00:49:25,952 --> 00:49:27,020 I'd put... 782 00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:29,813 ....a screen in front of some of them 783 00:49:31,032 --> 00:49:32,206 They're like wild dogs 784 00:49:33,328 --> 00:49:34,917 With wild eyes... No! 785 00:49:35,798 --> 00:49:36,866 Better cancel that too 786 00:49:38,443 --> 00:49:39,474 ....or they shoot my legs 787 00:49:41,887 --> 00:49:43,963 The time of greatness is "Kaputt" 788 00:49:47,175 --> 00:49:50,366 I remember the first time I took my place at the podium 789 00:49:50,968 --> 00:49:53,673 My first, great impression was... 790 00:49:53,925 --> 00:49:56,463 ....the enormous silence that fell before me 791 00:49:58,761 --> 00:50:00,184 As I signaled to begin... 792 00:50:01,231 --> 00:50:02,654 ....I suddenly realized, with great emotion, 793 00:50:03,076 --> 00:50:04,570 that my conductor's baton 794 00:50:05,510 --> 00:50:07,420 ....was tied to the sound of the orchestra 795 00:50:08,294 --> 00:50:09,824 Its voice came from within my hand 796 00:50:11,182 --> 00:50:13,507 It would pull the orchestra out of silence 797 00:50:13,930 --> 00:50:16,077 ....and to silence make it return 798 00:50:17,861 --> 00:50:20,364 This voice would rise... 799 00:50:20,541 --> 00:50:23,044 ....like a sea wave together with my arm 800 00:50:23,184 --> 00:50:26,031 ....moving through the air like a bird's wing 801 00:50:27,465 --> 00:50:30,975 And when my arm lowered, this harmonic voice... 802 00:50:31,848 --> 00:50:32,987 ....would fade again into silence 803 00:50:35,709 --> 00:50:38,414 But now everyone is equal, and I should resemble... 804 00:50:38,632 --> 00:50:40,850 ....the first violinist with his butcher's hands 805 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,158 So I have fits of rage 806 00:50:45,243 --> 00:50:46,073 And buy houses 807 00:50:50,462 --> 00:50:51,221 Two in America 808 00:50:52,723 --> 00:50:54,799 One in Tokyo, in London, and Berlin... 809 00:50:56,341 --> 00:50:58,738 In Paris, no houses. That's because... 810 00:50:58,916 --> 00:51:02,107 I do not go along with the music of France 811 00:51:03,056 --> 00:51:05,654 That's why, maybe, the Customs at Orly... 812 00:51:06,222 --> 00:51:08,025 ....is always frisking me 813 00:51:08,205 --> 00:51:10,566 ....from head to foot 814 00:51:13,703 --> 00:51:15,849 You have your interview? That's enough 815 00:51:18,052 --> 00:51:22,180 You say "the conductor" but this word... 816 00:51:22,574 --> 00:51:23,439 ....has no meaning anymore 817 00:51:24,905 --> 00:51:26,922 A true conductor is like a priest 818 00:51:28,245 --> 00:51:29,834 He must have a church... with believers 819 00:51:30,368 --> 00:51:34,567 ....but when the faithful all become 820 00:51:34,752 --> 00:51:35,688 ....atheists... 821 00:51:37,082 --> 00:51:40,178 I remember Koplensky my great maestro 822 00:51:41,188 --> 00:51:43,027 ....I was first violinist 823 00:51:43,832 --> 00:51:46,049 When he took the podium, everything was silence 824 00:51:46,859 --> 00:51:48,317 He would only look around... 825 00:51:49,050 --> 00:51:52,146 ....distractedly. But he already knew 826 00:51:52,321 --> 00:51:54,647 ....every line of the score in front of him 827 00:51:56,322 --> 00:51:58,054 He was music personified 828 00:51:59,105 --> 00:52:03,933 And we followed him happily, with absolute reverence 829 00:52:04,115 --> 00:52:05,645 To enact the rite of transubstantiation 830 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,076 ....to change the wine into blood... 831 00:52:09,196 --> 00:52:10,167 ....the bread into flesh... 832 00:52:11,352 --> 00:52:12,253 You laugh? 833 00:52:13,301 --> 00:52:14,060 ....I hope not 834 00:52:15,736 --> 00:52:16,768 Music is always sacred 835 00:52:18,345 --> 00:52:19,590 Every concert is a Mass 836 00:52:21,929 --> 00:52:23,661 We were enthralled, and we... 837 00:52:25,547 --> 00:52:27,659 ....would forget all worries... 838 00:52:27,913 --> 00:52:30,689 ....at the first sign of his baton 839 00:52:30,906 --> 00:52:33,860 ....We were but one breath, we and our instruments 840 00:52:34,176 --> 00:52:36,252 ....a single vital force 841 00:52:37,620 --> 00:52:38,972 He would begin! 842 00:52:40,821 --> 00:52:42,481 Nothing was more beautiful than his authority 843 00:52:44,752 --> 00:52:45,891 We trembled... 844 00:52:47,188 --> 00:52:47,947 ....at the thought 845 00:52:49,588 --> 00:52:52,221 ....of a mistake in performing this rite 846 00:52:53,868 --> 00:52:55,422 An overwhelming emotion 847 00:52:56,303 --> 00:52:57,928 ....an immense happiness 848 00:52:58,843 --> 00:53:00,990 We could feel... 849 00:53:01,279 --> 00:53:04,375 ....our joy transmitting itself 850 00:53:04,862 --> 00:53:07,957 ....to the audience, which was immobile, holding its breath 851 00:53:08,689 --> 00:53:11,465 We didn't watch the conductor it wasn't necessary 852 00:53:12,446 --> 00:53:14,320 He was there, and we knew it 853 00:53:14,743 --> 00:53:16,131 ....we felt it 854 00:53:20,414 --> 00:53:22,525 He was... within us 855 00:53:24,380 --> 00:53:26,361 ....so much love passed between him and us 856 00:53:28,485 --> 00:53:30,110 A love which you can see... 857 00:53:30,991 --> 00:53:32,059 ....is now lost 858 00:53:34,852 --> 00:53:37,972 I and my musicians only feel diffidence for each other 859 00:53:39,132 --> 00:53:40,900 The doubting... 860 00:53:41,150 --> 00:53:42,289 ....which destroys belief 861 00:53:43,307 --> 00:53:46,012 And then there's a lack of respect 862 00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,378 There's resentment. Because something has been lost 863 00:53:48,561 --> 00:53:50,221 ....never to be found 864 00:53:54,022 --> 00:53:55,267 That's how we play together 865 00:53:57,502 --> 00:54:00,135 United by a mutual hatred 866 00:54:02,338 --> 00:54:03,867 ....like a family in ruin 867 00:54:30,311 --> 00:54:32,980 Maestro, the lights have gone out 868 00:54:33,372 --> 00:54:34,024 I know 869 00:54:34,903 --> 00:54:35,697 What now? 870 00:54:36,956 --> 00:54:38,865 The break is over, we rehearse! 871 00:54:44,958 --> 00:54:48,113 Go ahead, walk. Light my way 872 00:54:59,431 --> 00:55:00,605 "Conductor, conductor..." 873 00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:02,485 "Conductor, no more!" 874 00:55:03,711 --> 00:55:05,620 "You'll only conduct us Bowed to the floor" 875 00:55:30,918 --> 00:55:33,515 Claudio... you gotta do something 876 00:55:39,825 --> 00:55:40,761 Now, the other eye! 877 00:55:41,286 --> 00:55:42,875 Boys, what are you doing? 878 00:55:44,487 --> 00:55:45,626 ....listen 879 00:55:46,226 --> 00:55:47,958 "Conductor, conductor... Conductor, no more" 880 00:55:48,662 --> 00:55:51,200 "You'll only conduct us Bowed to the floor" 881 00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:09,980 Conductor no more! No conducting allowed! 882 00:56:14,163 --> 00:56:15,267 We were idiots... 883 00:56:15,938 --> 00:56:17,041 ....to study 884 00:56:18,270 --> 00:56:19,515 ....to spend a lifetime in a Conservatory 885 00:56:20,113 --> 00:56:21,181 That's right! 886 00:56:22,513 --> 00:56:24,660 We don't need conductors, don't need music 887 00:56:25,089 --> 00:56:27,829 Nothing. Just a ring... 888 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,433 ....in our nose like savages 889 00:56:30,690 --> 00:56:33,395 Music is a public service. It belongs to everyone 890 00:56:33,578 --> 00:56:35,238 Without class distinction 891 00:56:37,509 --> 00:56:38,754 Maestro... 892 00:56:39,527 --> 00:56:40,536 ....how did this happen? 893 00:56:41,371 --> 00:56:42,995 "Conductor, conductor..." 894 00:56:43,667 --> 00:56:45,019 "Conductor no more" 895 00:56:46,137 --> 00:56:48,426 "You'll only conduct us Bowed to the floor" 896 00:57:00,785 --> 00:57:02,802 What are you doing? 897 00:57:04,195 --> 00:57:05,226 You're crazy! 898 00:57:07,743 --> 00:57:08,229 How nice... 899 00:57:09,552 --> 00:57:10,382 ....you're all sweated... 900 00:57:17,102 --> 00:57:18,870 "Conductor, Conductor..." 901 00:57:20,234 --> 00:57:21,408 What's falling here? 902 00:57:22,530 --> 00:57:25,649 What's happening? -Worse yet, you're shifty, 903 00:57:25,695 --> 00:57:26,799 and corrupt. You've been bought 904 00:57:26,843 --> 00:57:28,503 You signed too 905 00:57:28,758 --> 00:57:31,498 I'm reporting you the Association. Immediately 906 00:57:31,819 --> 00:57:33,408 Down with music power! 907 00:57:34,081 --> 00:57:35,504 Down with assembly line music! 908 00:57:36,273 --> 00:57:37,660 It's gotta stop! 909 00:57:38,569 --> 00:57:40,585 Stop! 910 00:57:47,371 --> 00:57:48,759 Take a look, what's on my head? 911 00:57:50,711 --> 00:57:51,921 Let me taste 912 00:57:54,746 --> 00:57:56,335 What is it you want? 913 00:57:57,773 --> 00:57:59,327 Moron, it's raining! 914 00:57:59,722 --> 00:58:01,667 I'll not be insulted! 915 00:58:07,307 --> 00:58:08,315 What's he doing? 916 00:58:10,368 --> 00:58:12,480 Look at how one can ruin his life... 917 00:58:16,144 --> 00:58:16,831 Again... 918 00:58:18,510 --> 00:58:19,020 Another? 919 00:58:24,181 --> 00:58:25,569 Down with the baton! 920 00:58:25,886 --> 00:58:27,380 Music belongs to us! 921 00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,858 You don't exist! Who is he? 922 00:58:31,139 --> 00:58:32,942 I ask you, who is he? 923 00:58:33,713 --> 00:58:36,703 He doesn't exist. And if he does, he shouldn't! 924 00:58:43,803 --> 00:58:46,020 There's blood. Wretches! Madmen! 925 00:58:46,238 --> 00:58:48,006 "You're fucked, you're through" 926 00:58:48,187 --> 00:58:49,717 "It's all over for you" 927 00:58:51,109 --> 00:58:53,220 May I sit down for the interview? 928 00:59:01,338 --> 00:59:02,927 I was first aware of the harp... 929 00:59:03,739 --> 00:59:05,542 ....in a dream. I was very little 930 00:59:06,070 --> 00:59:09,024 I didn't know what to think... 931 00:59:09,201 --> 00:59:11,597 ....of that small gold cage 932 00:59:14,559 --> 00:59:16,184 One day, in a book... 933 00:59:16,264 --> 00:59:17,853 ....I saw Nero, and Rome that was burning 934 00:59:18,108 --> 00:59:21,168 ....and the instrument I had dreamt 935 00:59:22,770 --> 00:59:25,866 And then in a perfumed calendar there was... 936 00:59:26,041 --> 00:59:29,160 ....an angel flying and he played the same harp... 937 00:59:29,485 --> 00:59:30,944 ....of my dreams 938 00:59:32,025 --> 00:59:32,819 The harp! 939 00:59:33,277 --> 00:59:35,258 For me it's a human presence 940 00:59:35,956 --> 00:59:39,704 I couldn't live in a house without a 60 harp 941 00:59:40,758 --> 00:59:42,904 I'd never fall asleep if I didn't know... 942 00:59:43,993 --> 00:59:46,354 ....it was nearby in the next room 943 00:59:48,028 --> 00:59:50,389 At times hands seem to run across it 944 00:59:51,404 --> 00:59:52,163 I hear it play 945 00:59:53,491 --> 00:59:54,321 ....it could be the wind 946 01:00:03,476 --> 01:00:05,243 The harp is my very life 947 01:00:06,747 --> 01:00:08,585 Not only for what I have earned 948 01:00:09,496 --> 01:00:10,990 ....but it's my refuge 949 01:00:11,930 --> 01:00:12,760 ....my friend 950 01:00:14,366 --> 01:00:17,284 I've always lived alone. No men 951 01:00:18,263 --> 01:00:19,235 No one 952 01:00:20,002 --> 01:00:20,726 ....only the harp 953 01:00:21,742 --> 01:00:23,402 We confide, we talk... 954 01:00:24,108 --> 01:00:26,397 ....it answers me, I receive sensations 955 01:00:26,857 --> 01:00:30,226 ....fantasies... an overwhelming sense of joy 956 01:00:30,926 --> 01:00:32,101 ....and of sadness 957 01:00:33,292 --> 01:00:36,412 Mostly, it gives one... 958 01:00:36,702 --> 01:00:37,354 ....faith 959 01:00:38,338 --> 01:00:39,369 You become aware... 960 01:00:39,555 --> 01:00:41,631 ....that other dimensions exist 961 01:00:46,757 --> 01:00:48,037 A child once asked: 962 01:00:48,253 --> 01:00:50,198 "Where does music go when it's over?" 963 01:00:51,593 --> 01:00:53,289 ....only a child could ask that 964 01:00:55,072 --> 01:00:57,813 "Orchestra - terror Conductor - death" 965 01:00:58,238 --> 01:01:01,263 "Orchestra - terror Conductor - death" 966 01:01:01,856 --> 01:01:04,917 "Orchestra - terror Who plays is a traitor" 967 01:01:30,282 --> 01:01:32,263 Here's our new conductor! 968 01:01:42,284 --> 01:01:43,981 Long live the Metronome! 969 01:01:45,729 --> 01:01:48,683 "Metronome metronomous... Musicians - autonomous" 970 01:02:12,136 --> 01:02:15,018 "Musicians at last freed from the past" 971 01:02:18,642 --> 01:02:20,825 Down with the metronome. We'll establish... 972 01:02:20,973 --> 01:02:23,084 ....the tempo, the rhythm, the cadence 973 01:02:23,269 --> 01:02:27,124 We've had enough of their music 974 01:02:27,375 --> 01:02:32,867 ....it's degrading! We play it, we'll create it, 975 01:02:33,045 --> 01:02:33,769 we'll manage it 976 01:02:34,681 --> 01:02:35,891 I'll not... 977 01:02:36,525 --> 01:02:38,055 ....be directed by anyone! 978 01:02:38,264 --> 01:02:40,245 Death! 979 01:02:40,422 --> 01:02:41,287 ....to the metronome! 980 01:03:38,385 --> 01:03:40,152 Idiot! Give me that gun 981 01:03:40,542 --> 01:03:41,372 ....gimme 982 01:03:44,856 --> 01:03:47,453 You're hurting me. I have a permit 983 01:03:48,301 --> 01:03:49,997 Look in my wallet 984 01:03:51,118 --> 01:03:52,542 All right let's see it 985 01:03:57,034 --> 01:03:58,243 ....in his name 986 01:03:59,260 --> 01:04:02,629 A regular firearm permit 987 01:04:03,887 --> 01:04:04,611 Get up... 988 01:04:09,349 --> 01:04:10,144 A Smith and Wesson! 989 01:04:31,095 --> 01:04:33,764 Look up there... up there! 990 01:04:39,966 --> 01:04:40,690 Look! 991 01:04:48,907 --> 01:04:50,496 Everything's... 992 01:04:50,682 --> 01:04:51,618 ....crumbling! 993 01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,541 Help me... 994 01:05:38,451 --> 01:05:39,245 Help me... 995 01:06:00,648 --> 01:06:01,371 Oh, why? 996 01:06:11,642 --> 01:06:12,543 ....you are here... 997 01:06:14,252 --> 01:06:15,047 ....and I'm here... 998 01:06:40,310 --> 01:06:42,884 Everyone must give undivided attention to his instrument 999 01:06:45,112 --> 01:06:47,508 ....that is all we can do now 1000 01:06:49,461 --> 01:06:50,920 Somebody can help me? 1001 01:06:51,653 --> 01:06:52,269 ....please 1002 01:07:03,969 --> 01:07:05,523 The notes are saving us 1003 01:07:08,457 --> 01:07:09,394 Music saves us 1004 01:07:10,649 --> 01:07:11,823 Hang on to the notes 1005 01:07:15,033 --> 01:07:16,100 Follow the notes 1006 01:07:19,069 --> 01:07:20,100 ....one after the other... 1007 01:07:21,852 --> 01:07:23,240 In the way my hand... 1008 01:07:24,670 --> 01:07:25,642 ....can indicate 1009 01:07:28,045 --> 01:07:29,468 We are musicians... 1010 01:07:31,664 --> 01:07:33,431 You are musicians... 1011 01:07:45,893 --> 01:07:46,687 ....and we're here 1012 01:07:47,667 --> 01:07:48,213 ....to rehearse 1013 01:08:00,018 --> 01:08:02,165 Have no fear. The rehearsal continues 1014 01:08:03,289 --> 01:08:04,261 To your places! 1015 01:08:05,168 --> 01:08:06,069 In place, please 1016 01:08:10,838 --> 01:08:11,562 ....thank you... 1017 01:11:05,946 --> 01:11:08,342 You must do less coloring with sounds 1018 01:11:08,764 --> 01:11:11,125 Noise is not music 1019 01:11:11,721 --> 01:11:13,453 Not a trolley car, I heard pots and pans 1020 01:11:13,809 --> 01:11:15,683 Where are we? 1021 01:11:16,557 --> 01:11:19,856 ....one a soccer field? You think I'm an umpire? 1022 01:11:21,011 --> 01:11:22,814 And where has the brass gone? 1023 01:11:23,203 --> 01:11:25,147 What's happened to your little lungs? 1024 01:11:26,508 --> 01:11:27,896 Where is all your breath? 1025 01:11:28,769 --> 01:11:30,322 ....used it for stupid chatter? 1026 01:11:31,309 --> 01:11:32,412 Sustain the notes! 1027 01:11:45,991 --> 01:11:47,723 Gentlemen... DA CAPO!