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Visitors in London can compose their own interactive musical piece
London
1. Wide of play Orchestra at the South Bank Centre, London
2. Play Orchestra
3. Mother and daughter walking to the play orchestra
4. Young boy standing on the music cube
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Slaney, Educational and...
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A program funded by private and corporate donations is giving music students at a Chicago elementary school a chance to connect with their Hispanic heritage, through mariachi. (Dec. 23)
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Jose Torres smiles as he thinks about how his 12-year-old daughter Alexa has embraced playing mariachi with her fellow students in a new Chicago Public Schools program that brings the...
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Deaf children overcome disability through dance
Khan Younis, South Gaza Strip - 9 February 2012
1. Wide of dance teacher Mouamen Khalifa rehearsing with deaf girls in corridor ahead of show
2. Medium of dancers practising in corridor
3. Tilt up from girls' feet to wide of dancers...
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Teaching of traditional arts is revived in Japan
1. Wide of Shinto martial Art demonstration of 'Waraku'
2. Participant taking part in the arts programme
3. Founder of Origin Arts programme Alex Kerr speaking with participants
4. Kerr speaking with programme participants
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Ballet - one of the latest fitness trends in California
Pure Barre ballet fitness studio, Brentwood, California, 18 June 2009
1. Women in ballet class
2. Wide of women stretching their legs
3. Close up to pull out from foot to woman
4. Wide of women standing and stretching
5. Wide of...
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Vatican tours for the disabled
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Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano. Researchers are restoring and studying self-playing pianos and the music rolls that recorded major composers performing their own work. (Dec. 17)
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THAT'S THE MAGIC OF THE PLAYER PIANO -- WHICH BROUGHT RECORDED MUSIC INTO PEOPLE'S LIVING ROOMS LONG BEFORE THERE WERE RECORDS, CDs OR I-PODS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry McBride, Head Music...
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Metallica play benefit concert for Los Angeles' Silverlake Conservatory of Music
AP Entertainment
Los Angeles, 14 May 2008
1. Wide exterior of the Wiltern theatre
2. Marquee that reads 'Metallica a benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music'
3. Various of Flea playing bass guitar
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Flea,...
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Holographic portraits take on traditional art
Thiruvananthapuram, India, 8-9 Sep, 2010
1. Wide of a portrait class
2. Close of model's face
3. Mid of student painting a portrait
4. Close of portrait
5. Close of palette
6. Wide of model sitting; canvas in foreground
7. Wide of model;...
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Open air violin lessons to encourage children to love classical music
Jakarta, 30 May 2010
1. Wide of violin practice at public park
2. Various close ups of children getting ready for violin practice
3. Close up of song book
4. Close up of girl playing violin
5. Wide of students playing violin
6. Wide of...
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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...
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First Lady Michelle Obama used a talent show at the White House on Tuesday to promote the importance of arts education. (May 20)
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First lady Michelle Obama led a White House talent show Tuesday featuring student actors at schools nationwide that are putting a new emphasis on the arts and humanities.
Officials say the...
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Focus on jobless woman set to join protest against austerity plans
October 14, 2011
1. Various of Ines Aires, unemployed, during a bio-dance class
2. Mid of Aires listening
3. Close of Aires' hands on the computer
4. Mid of Aires and a friend of her looking at the computer screen
5. Close of...
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Changing children's lives with music
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
San Sebastian De Los Reyes - 22 June 2008
1. Zoom in streets San Sebastian de los Reyes
2. Wide pupils entering at Music School
3. Close sign "Youth and Children's Orchestra. San Sebastian...
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Gaza Music School channels peace through music
Students at Gaza's only music school are playing their musical instruments again after a period that saw the learning centre hit by financial difficulties and wartime bombs.
Teachers at the school say music is a symbol of hope and peace...
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A blind musician has mastered 16 instruments
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
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Meditation and mind control provide the key to internal martial arts
AP Television
Beijing, China - August 14, 2010
1. Tilt down from trees to internal martial arts class
2. Various of class, with internal martial arts master Liu Xiuyang making adjustments to their positions
3. Mid of male pupil...
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Practioners of meditation endure harsh techniques
Tokyo - May 9, 2010
1. Chief Priest ringing a bell to start "Zazen", the Zen Buddhist meditation
2. Monk walking by meditation participants
3. Various of mediation participants meditating
4. A monk hitting one of participants on the...
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University project bringing player pianos back to life
Imagine if you could hear George Gershwin perform on a real piano? Watch and listen to how the iconic composer played each note?
That's the magic of the player piano -- which brought recorded music into people's living rooms long before...
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Arab Spring influence on art at Venice Biennale
AP Television
Venice, Italy - June 2, 2011
1. Various of Saudi Arabia pavilion art installation called "The Black Arch" by sisters from Mecca, Shadia and Raja Alem
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Start, curator, Saudi Arabia...
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Robert Redford honored by USC theatre school
AP Television
Beverly Hills, California, 10 February 2010
1. Wide exterior Beverly Wilshire hotel
2. Close signage at USC theatre school event honoring Robert Redford
3. Medium pan right to wide Redford entering arrivals area, walking...
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Art exhibit focuses on famous paintings of women
New York - April 3, 2009
1. Pan exterior of Sotheby's auction house
2. Pan of members of the media listening to Sotheby's expert
3. Pull out man standing in front of artwork
4. SOUNDBITE: (English): Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's head of...
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Anti-austerity protest as troika continues talks with government
1. Wide of students from music schools marching; students marching past camera
2. Close-up of drum being struck; pans right to show medium of students holding banner and chanting slogan (Greek) "Every year it's the same story: no...
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Latin dance-inspired workout classes boom
Beverly Hills, California, 17 July 2009
1. Various Zumba class
2. Set up of Rosemarie Li
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemarie Li, Vox Pop:
"It is so fun and invigorating. It takes my spirit and makes it just soar. It's just fantastic. It's a...