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So, you might want to stick some Bach on your playlist | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
if life seems pretty good, | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
or maybe some Wagner if you need an energy boost. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
And then there's other music that can give us time to breathe, | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
some space to think and stop the world for a while. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
MUSIC: The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
Do you have those days that have gone wrong? | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
When you lie back on your bed, put some music on - any music - | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
and imagine you're just floating away from it all? | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
On those days, I want to be that lark up there, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
belting out a beautiful song high up in the sky. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
And up there, just like when you look down from a plane | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
or tall building, the world seems different. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
We become smaller. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Maybe our worries do, too. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
An English composer called Ralph Vaughan Williams | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
was walking along the coast near Margate | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
when he imagined a violin melody that would capture this feeling | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
of a bird singing as it makes its steep vertical flight. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
And he called it The Lark Ascending. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
It was September 1914... | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
GUNFIRE ..Britain had just entered | 0:01:39 | 0:01:40 | |
the First World War, and soon, Vaughan Williams joined the Army | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
and left for France. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
In the trenches during that war, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
some of the few birds the soldiers ever saw or heard | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
were skylarks flying high over their heads. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
That birdsong must have sounded like an escape, freedom, | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
like a different world they had left behind. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
When he came back from the war, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
Vaughan Williams returned to his violin piece with its melody - | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
fragile, peaceful, out of reach, like the bird. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:16 | |
And he created this music - | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
music that, for me, really CAN take you to another place, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
wherever you want that to be. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 |