Curated Video
Loved and lost: musicians talk about the instruments they have lost
LOVED AND LOST: MUSICIANS TALK ABOUT THE INSTRUMENTS THEY HAVE LOSTMany musicians have treasured collections of instruments they have loved over their career, but occasionally those instruments get lost along the way. Sometimes they are...
Bloomberg
Searchlight Capital's Zinterhofer Says Volatility Has Created Opportunities
Feb.12 -- Searchlight Capital Co-Founder Eric Zinterhofer discusses how market volatility has impacted their business and the company's recent partnership with LionTree. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg Daybreak:...
Bridgeman Arts
Moroccan men and women making music in a mosque, c.1960
Clip from 'Going Places' series with Lowell Thomas. Men playing the tambourines and clappin their hands inside the mosque. Women clapping their hands.
Curated Video
AP video tour of the new USSA Center of Excellence training facility for Ski and Snowboarders.
HEADLINE: First Person: New Olympic Training Facility
CAPTION: The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association opens a brand new $22 million indoor training center in Park City, Utah. The new facility is expected to give the athletes a boost...
Curated Video
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra brings together eight extraordinary instruments for five nights of incredible music all thanks to 300-year-old violins crafted by Antonio Stradivari. (March 28)
SOUNDBITE: Margaret Bajter, Concertmaster - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra:
(000505) When you look at this piece of art and then go to the concert hall, you hear what it's saying to you. You're no longer passive, you're a participant in...
Curated Video
SYND18/11/71 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK
Musical instrument exhibition in New York
1) exterior museum
2) interior exhibition, Harpsichords, pan to Lyres
3) Kissar Lyres
4) Hurdy - Gurdy
5) Kissar Lyres
6) Emmanuel Winternitz plays a short pice on a Spinnetino (SOUND UP)
7)...
Curated Video
Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be serenaded at Buckingham Palace by a harpist following their wedding at the end of April.
HEADLINE Harpist tunes up for Britain's royal wedding
CAPTION: (255 characters): Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be serenaded at Buckingham Palace by a harpist following their wedding at the end of April. (April 3)
(SOT:...
Curated Video
WRAP Australia ratifies Kyoto, Ban "time to act is now", protests
AP Television
1. Wide of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walking into room
2. Cutaway of media
3. Wide of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Ban Ki-moon sitting in room
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Piano and love: Chopin's life explored in Paris show
VOICED: Piano and love: Chopin's life explored in Paris show
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Play it like Chopin for 200th anniversary
VOICED: Play it like Chopin for 200th anniversary
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Ukulele craze gets Americans strumming
VOICED: Ukulele craze gets Americans strumming
Bridgeman Arts
Singer and jazz band at nightclub in Juan-les-Pins, 1952
Part 4 of 1952 promo film about Juan-le-Pins. male singer sings a French song into a microphone. Jazz musicians play together, piano solo.
Bloomberg
ECB Chief Economist Peter Praet on Monetary Policy, TLTROS, German Bunds, Brexit
Mar.28 -- The European Central Bank’s Chief Economist Peter Praet discusses the ECB’s monetary policy, TLTROS, German bunds, Brexit and his biggest concerns weighing on the global economy. He speaks to Bloomberg's Jana Randow at the ECB...
Bloomberg
EU Budget to Be `Mothership' of Recovery: Von der Leyen
Apr.16 -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the region needs a "martial plan" to combat the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. "We will use the power of the whole European budget to leverage the huge amount of...
Bloomberg
Bitcoin Failed the Test on Being a Real Currency: BIS
Mar.25 -- Bank for International Settlements Head of Innovation Hub Benoit Coeure discusses bitcoin and central banks offering a regulatory framework for digital currencies. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition.”
Curated Video
USA: SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR MISSION
English/Nat
The seven astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour are into the second half of the astronomy mission today (Friday).
Scientists aboard Endeavour are aiming their telescopes at planets in the solar system and scores...
Curated Video
Christie's hosts pre-auction performance of Stradivari violin
1. Tilt down exterior Chrisities auction house
2. Wide of auction room at Chrisities
3. Student from Julliard School playing violin
4. Pan from flowers to student playing violin
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dmitry Lukin, Julliard School...
Curated Video
Pearls analysis to help determine whether they are natural or cultured
Pearls are alluring gems that symbolise purity, status and have always been very highly prized.
But when the Japanese started producing cultured pearls early last century differentiating between the "man-made" and natural pearls became...
Curated Video
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra brings together eight extraordinary instruments for four nights of incredible music all thanks to 300-year-old violins crafted by Antonio Stradivari. (March 28)
SOUNDBITE: Margaret Bajter, Concertmaster - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra:
(000505) When you look at this piece of art and then go to the concert hall, you hear what it's saying to you. You're no longer passive, you're a participant in...
Curated Video
UK - Stradivarius violin sold
A Stradivarius violin first owned by the 18th-century French violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer fetched a record 947,500 pounds (US$1.58 million) at an auction in London on Wednesday (1/4). A London dealer and former violinist, Haim Lazarov,...
Curated Video
BLACK PEARL FARMING IN THE SEYCHELLES
Black pearl cultivation is a family business for the Seychelles' only pearl farm.
The rarity of the marine gems make them a prize worth diving.
The rare black pearl is one of the ocean's most-prized jewels.
Pristine waters are an...
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A ukulele festival in Hawaii, of course, draws thousands of enthusiasts of the simple stringed instrument, with 900 people playing. Ukulele backers are predicting big things for the compact creation of wood and strings.
HEADLINE: First Person: The sweet charms of the ukulele
CAPTION: A ukulele festival in Hawaii, of course, draws thousands of enthusiasts of the simple stringed instrument, with 900 people playing. Ukulele backers are predicting big...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery presides over signing of German WWII surrender at Luneburg Heath
In British HQ tent at Luneburg Heath, German Rear Adm. Gerhard Wagner signs instrument of surrender of all German forces in Holland, NW Germany, and Denmark; British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery looks on; SOT Montgomery announces...
Curated Video
Stolen Stradivarius Returns to Stage
VOICE-OVER SCRIPT: NATS: Wang pauses playing violin "Now it has a little bit more golden sound" then continues playing VIOLINIST MIRA WANG IS EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE AMES STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN. SOUNDBITE (English) Mira Wang,...