:00:07. > :00:09.Welcome to this, our second highlights programme from the
:00:09. > :00:19.Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod we are on stage about to
:00:19. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:26.start a special piece concert including a performance of Karl
:00:26. > :00:28.Jenkins' chorl work, The Peacemakers and what better place a
:00:28. > :00:29.stage to concert than in the International Pavilion here at
:00:29. > :00:34.Llangollen, a festival built around peace.
:00:34. > :00:40.In tonight's programme, we will have some of that memorable concert,
:00:40. > :00:49.performances from Valentina Nafornita and the colour and and
:00:49. > :00:55.spectacle that makes Eisteddfod so special culminating in the Choir of
:00:55. > :01:00.the World. As Llangollen prepares for the
:01:00. > :01:07.landmark The Peacemakers concert, we will be talking to Terry Waite.
:01:07. > :01:17.Five years, no books, no no papers. Who communication, I used to tap on
:01:17. > :01:21.the wall my name and you regret your name is Terry Waite when you
:01:21. > :01:26.do that. Let's take a look at the colourful
:01:26. > :01:36.performances on the Eisteddfod stage in the Folk Dance Competition.
:01:36. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:47.This group are The Heritage Dancers And Ukraine is the home for this
:01:47. > :01:57.group performing like all the other groups in national costume and
:01:57. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:08.representing a traditional folk Don't they look beautiful? This is
:02:08. > :02:14.the dance group from the Ukraine. Did you enjoy your time on stage?
:02:14. > :02:24.Yes, it was great. The feeling is unbelievable. Amazing. We tried our
:02:24. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:42.best. We did all that we can, 100% and even more.
:02:42. > :02:52.APPLAUSE And from Turkey, this group was the
:02:52. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:15.winner of choreographed children's Well, if you were watching last
:03:15. > :03:15.
:03:16. > :03:24.Friday's programme, you will see that I have a new fellow presenter,
:03:24. > :03:30.Wynne Evans. Wynne went to meet a choir in Cape Town who were just
:03:30. > :03:36.about to make the trip here. Cape Town, South Africa, a bustling
:03:36. > :03:39.modern city of skyscrapers nestling in the shadow of the mountain. The
:03:39. > :03:44.golden beaches and restaurants attract thousands of people every
:03:44. > :03:54.year, but if those attractions aren't enough to tempt you, what
:03:54. > :04:00.
:04:00. > :04:07.the voices of the of the Chamber Although they sing about the beauty
:04:07. > :04:15.of the mountain, the reality of life for the choir's members is
:04:15. > :04:21.quite different to the wonders of central Cape Town. Their home is in
:04:21. > :04:29.a township 15 miles from the cafes where 80,000 black residents scrape
:04:29. > :04:36.a living. I was invited into the home of one
:04:36. > :04:40.of the choir's tenors. This is where I sleep. His early
:04:40. > :04:48.day notice township were a challenge. The choir provided him
:04:49. > :04:52.with an alternative. I survived in a lot of bad things,
:04:52. > :04:58.doing drugs, of course, I almost got into those things. I will be
:04:58. > :05:03.honest because I had a lot of friends who are now, some of them,
:05:03. > :05:09.passed away because they were using drugs and some were criminals.
:05:09. > :05:12.One of the choir's lead sopranoes is just as shocking.
:05:12. > :05:14.Having to go to bed without any bread in your stomach and having to
:05:14. > :05:19.wake-up in the morning and go to school.
:05:19. > :05:23.Often, fathers are absent from homes. HIV and AIDS are rife and
:05:23. > :05:28.children have to grow up very quickly.
:05:28. > :05:38.My story today isn't one of pain and poverty, but one of hope where
:05:38. > :05:46.
:05:46. > :05:51.music really does work its magic. Back in the days of apartheid music
:05:51. > :05:55.was banned from black schools. Black people were considered not to
:05:55. > :06:01.be clever enough to handle mathematics and music and music was
:06:01. > :06:07.too expensive so it was scratched off.
:06:07. > :06:12.In this township, the music teacher offers people a new path. Since the
:06:12. > :06:17.dark days of apartheid he has seized every opportunity to develop
:06:17. > :06:24.school choirs, youth choirs and church choirs, but his true baby is
:06:24. > :06:32.the Chamber Choir and I was invited to join in.
:06:32. > :06:37.Township life is a life that nobody would envy from any other person
:06:37. > :06:45.because it has a huge amount of challenges. Challenges that range
:06:45. > :06:55.from poverty, to violence. There is this particular code of ethics and
:06:55. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :07:05.code of conduct that they have to follow. These life skills are rules
:07:05. > :07:09.should translate into how they should lead their lives.
:07:09. > :07:15.Valuable skills indeed. Every sing neither choir is either in work or
:07:15. > :07:21.in education. Many of them in the world of music.
:07:21. > :07:28.Ah, the choir did a lot for me, but most importantly, it gave me focus
:07:28. > :07:33.in life. It taught me respect. It disciplined me and it gave me all
:07:33. > :07:43.of this. Now I'm in my fourth year at University of Cape Town pursuing
:07:43. > :07:44.
:07:44. > :07:48.my dream and hopefully I'll become famous and a good teacher as well.
:07:48. > :07:53.The translation of the choir's name is achievement. Here promise offers
:07:53. > :08:01.hope and achievement, so what choir is more deserving than a place in
:08:01. > :08:05.the line-up at The Peacemakers concert?
:08:05. > :08:09.Terry Waite is a popular figure here in Llangollen as Eisteddfod
:08:09. > :08:13.president and he has a special interest in South Africa and the
:08:13. > :08:17.struggle against apartheid. I spent a lot of time in the past
:08:17. > :08:20.working in South Africa along with Desmond Tutu because we have been
:08:20. > :08:25.great friends and in subsequent years, of course, I worked with
:08:25. > :08:30.that problem with the problem of apartheid until it came to an end.
:08:30. > :08:33.I heard how it came to an end in the very unusual way. I was in my
:08:34. > :08:38.cell in Beirut and I had no communication with the outside
:08:38. > :08:47.world for years, five years, no books, no papers, no communication.
:08:47. > :08:54.I used to tap on the wall at night my name one for A, two of B and
:08:54. > :09:01.three for C, you regret your name is Terry Waite. The taps came back
:09:01. > :09:06.from the people in the cell next door. They heard me and they
:09:06. > :09:11.replied to me. They brought me the news of the end of apartheid and I
:09:11. > :09:16.thought goodness, I never expected to see that in my lifetime and it
:09:16. > :09:20.always taught me that we've got to be optimistic. Things look dreadful,
:09:20. > :09:24.economically at the moment, it doesn't look good for us. There is
:09:24. > :09:27.warfare on our doorstep, you know, our troops are being involved in
:09:27. > :09:33.conflict over the world, but keep hope alive. That's what kept me
:09:33. > :09:38.alive in those years. I had five years when I had nothing and high
:09:38. > :09:41.to live for the day and keep hope alive and that's all somehow,
:09:41. > :09:47.summed up in this Eisteddfod, giving people hope. Use your
:09:47. > :09:52.talents. Use your gift of music. The people in Wales have done it.
:09:52. > :09:55.Putting on The Peacemakers concert has involved forming an orchestra
:09:55. > :10:03.and a massed choir made up of children and adults from all over
:10:03. > :10:10.Wales. There can't have been many more
:10:10. > :10:14.people to see tonight's performance come to a successful conclusion.
:10:14. > :10:18.This must have been the culmination of many, many months of
:10:18. > :10:21.collaboration? This was one of the concerts I started putting together
:10:21. > :10:26.back in October. There has been something with this concert all
:10:26. > :10:31.along and it is fantastic to see the jigsaw come together. I am
:10:31. > :10:34.quite emotional about it really and to think the south African group
:10:34. > :10:38.turned up about ten minutes ago and the jigsaw is complete. I would
:10:38. > :10:41.like to say my work is done, but there is a lot of work to do this
:10:41. > :10:51.afternoon and I'm looking forward, I have looked forward to this
:10:51. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:06.You made it, I was glad to see you here. It was a mammoth task. We
:11:07. > :11:13.were on the road for 24 hours, believe it or not, but coming here,
:11:13. > :11:18.it was worth all the effort. Yes, we really are enjoying our stay
:11:18. > :11:25.here so far. And the choir will have quite a
:11:25. > :11:30.part in the peace makers, the new work by Karl Jenkins. Karl, when
:11:30. > :11:34.you composed the Armed Man, you said it was with a hope of looking
:11:34. > :11:40.forward to a century of peace, but sadly nothing much seems to have
:11:40. > :11:44.changed. That was 12 years ago to the
:11:44. > :11:50.Millennium Commission 2000. As you say, nothing has changed.
:11:50. > :11:54.There is conflict somewhere in the world always, unfortunately.
:11:54. > :12:04.So with The Peacemakers, what you have got is texts from some of the
:12:04. > :12:05.
:12:05. > :12:10.world's greatest peace leaders? Gandy, Mandela, Martin Luther King
:12:10. > :12:16.and Terry Waite. Sometimes we think that peace can
:12:16. > :12:20.only be brought about by those in political office, but one thing is
:12:20. > :12:26.is clear, those in political office know how to get us into war quickly,
:12:26. > :12:32.but peace actually has got to begin in the hearts of everybody. Karl
:12:32. > :12:36.aids that process through his work. To conduct it is a challenge to put
:12:36. > :12:40.it together. It is well rehearsed. The choirs rehearse in isolation
:12:40. > :12:44.and then it comes together on the day when they come together with
:12:44. > :12:54.the orchestra. But the live performances are different and they
:12:54. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :13:51.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds
:13:52. > :14:01.have a certain spark hopefully when Here is another section from The
:14:02. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :15:36.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds
:15:36. > :15:46.I am really being spoiled this week at Llangollen.
:15:46. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:52.Look who we have got here, another Wynne, it is a win, win situation.
:15:52. > :15:56.So you have been listening to the choirs for us with an expert ear,
:15:56. > :16:00.we are coming to the climax of the competitions with the Choir of the
:16:00. > :16:03.World competition. What are your impressions of the choirs so far?
:16:03. > :16:07.As always in Llangollen, it has been fantastic because you have got
:16:07. > :16:11.choirs from all four corners of the world coming with different sounds
:16:11. > :16:14.and different interpretations to different songs and it is like a
:16:14. > :16:18.festival for your ears and a festival for your eyes because with
:16:18. > :16:21.the different costumes as we can see here, sadly I didn't bring my
:16:21. > :16:31.sequins with me today. That's a shame. Wouldn't you like
:16:31. > :16:32.
:16:33. > :16:40.to see him in sequins? Yes. I might have my sequins on
:16:40. > :16:45.underneath! We look forward to seeing you later.
:16:45. > :16:51.One of the singers is the soprano, Valentina Nafornita. She wowed
:16:51. > :17:00.Wales and the world last year as the runaway winner of Bebecar
:17:00. > :17:04.difficult singer of the -- BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
:17:04. > :17:08.I love to be here. I am not talk being the weather, but the area is
:17:08. > :17:11.really, really beautiful and I hope to enjoy this beautiful evening.
:17:11. > :17:14.Is it the first time you have performed with Karl Jenkins? Yes,
:17:14. > :17:18.it is my first time to perform with him.
:17:18. > :17:21.Is it an interesting process to go about learning the work? It is
:17:21. > :17:26.really interesting and it is really easy because the music is really
:17:26. > :17:30.beautiful and you can very quickly learn it.
:17:30. > :17:40.And we will hear Valentina Nafornita in The Peacemakers later,
:17:40. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :18:47.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 57 seconds
:18:47. > :18:53.but here she is with a performance Llangollen is for everyone of all
:18:53. > :19:03.ages and it is time for the younger competitors to take centre stage
:19:03. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:53.now for the Junior Children's Choir # Drip, drop, rain
:19:53. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:32.APPLAUSE And that's a fantastic win for the
:20:32. > :20:40.choir and their leader. The children have put their
:20:40. > :20:48.loyalties to one side for a performance of Be Joyful.
:20:48. > :20:58.# Be joyful # Clap your hands together
:20:58. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:38.# Be joyful # Be joyful #
:21:38. > :21:40.APPLAUSE Llangollen is really for everyone,
:21:40. > :21:43.whatever your age and with me is Mervin who at 88, Mervin, is a
:21:43. > :21:47.finalist in the folk song competition. Tell me about when you
:21:47. > :21:54.first started coming to Llangollen? Well, I came in 1965 and in ten
:21:54. > :22:00.years I had plucked up courage to go in the folk competition so I
:22:00. > :22:06.entered a folk song in 1975 and I won it. So I had a go the next year
:22:06. > :22:12.and I won it again and I thought this is dead dead easy, but I
:22:12. > :22:19.haven't won it since! # The small things fell off her
:22:19. > :22:29.# And into bed tumbled # And I'll leave you to guess
:22:29. > :22:32.
:22:32. > :22:38.# How that young couple fumbled # Sing riddle diddle day #
:22:38. > :22:48.Mervin didn't win this year, but at least he can say he appeared on the
:22:48. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:14.same stage as Alfie Boe. # The hotel California
:23:14. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:18.# What a nice surprise # Bring your alibi
:23:18. > :23:24.What's your impression, what's the standard like? We started this
:23:24. > :23:27.evening with the National University Choir of sing Singapore.
:23:27. > :23:32.If you were to take the bookies favourite, these were the bookies
:23:32. > :23:42.favourite and they started this evening with a piece called Wings
:23:42. > :24:04.
:24:04. > :24:10.and you could hear a pin drop. The And the next choir was a choir from
:24:10. > :24:16.Belgium? Yes, a choir from my grandfather's homeland. The one
:24:16. > :24:23.thing you notice is their tights, green, red, blue, they started
:24:23. > :24:33.their programme with a song called Gossiping Women.
:24:33. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:45.It was a brilliant portrayal of a And the next choir is the Barbe
:24:45. > :24:53.Shop Choir. It is the battle of the sequins.
:24:53. > :24:58.All he can smell when then come on stage is the smell of hair spray.
:24:58. > :25:08.The White Rosettes started with the theme tune from The Muppets and it
:25:08. > :25:08.
:25:08. > :25:12.was absolutely brilliant. And now the female choir, the girls,
:25:12. > :25:22.how did they do? This was the surprise of the evening for me. It
:25:22. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:36.was ap women's choir from Kettering in Northamptonshire and they sang
:25:36. > :25:45.
:25:45. > :25:53.And finally the male male voice choir, what did you think of them?
:25:53. > :25:57.This was hotly contested with ten choirs competing. The winners were
:25:57. > :26:05.from Germany, it wouldn't have been my choice and they sang and brought
:26:05. > :26:09.a programme that had real humour. The song was about a drunk man
:26:09. > :26:13.singing and he was being answered by the rest of the choir and they
:26:13. > :26:18.finished their programme with what they described as a non-sensical
:26:18. > :26:21.song and it was complete with funny hats, I felt, that they treated the
:26:21. > :26:31.music with a little too much respect that they had white gloves
:26:31. > :26:54.
:26:54. > :26:56.on. I wanted them to go for it a APPLAUSE
:26:56. > :26:58.The last the male voice choir won this competition was in 1990, so
:26:58. > :27:08.who knows. Well, let's see who is going to win.
:27:08. > :27:29.
:27:29. > :27:35.The winner of Choir of the World 2012, the choir from Germany.
:27:35. > :27:40.Does it feel good? Oh very good. And a nice big trophy? It is heavy.
:27:40. > :27:44.It is very heavy. Well done all of you. It has been a
:27:44. > :27:53.wonderful week here at Llangollen and a feast of international