WEBVTT - Bach in Black: Composer Crimes 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.760 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.040 Zaren Hey, Elizabeth Dudton. Oh are you doing pretty well? 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.080 How about you? Good? You feel well? 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:09.720 For asking? 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.800 Oh? My pleasure. You know I'm a curious tech. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.720 You are listen. Yeah, I have a question for you, 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.799 curious George. Oh sure you know it's ridiculous? Oh yes, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.800 Oh do you. Mister David Lee Roth, Oh my god, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.280 he's so beautifully ridiculous. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.040 I love him. Did you know in two thousand and four, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.320 David Lee Roth aka Diamond Dave aka mister David Lee 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.640 Roth he went to work in the Bronx as an 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.919 emergency medical technician. I do know that. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.480 I think I talked about it on Ridiculous History once. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.000 Oh that's right, I did you do know? You know this? 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.000 Huh well? He called it a perfect job for him. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:47.800 I was blown away by this. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.599 He's amazing. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.280 I was like, dude, how cool is this? And like 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.720 he was like super excited where he was like talking about. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.240 Like at one point he would go up to people. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.720 There they are like lying bloody on the pavement of 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.279 New York City, and David Lee Roth comes up to them, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.680 grins down at them and goes, you're gonna be okay, 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.640 I mean like that, like that it was like a dream, right, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.720 and then he actually starts to save them, like not 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.440 just like it's an apparition. He tastes their blood pressure, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.319 he starts bandaging them. According to Diamond, Davey said, not 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.640 once does anyone recognize me, which is perfect for me. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.039 So apparently they weren't actually seeing him, which is kind 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.360 of wild, Like you actually had the moment and no 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.680 one recognized that it was David Roth, which is the 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.120 wildest part to me. They missed out on the moment anyway, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.240 that was ridiculous. Fandex all yeah, yeah, to be saved 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.120 by David Lee Roth and not know it. Yeah, that's ridiculous. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.119 Ridiculous. That is ridiculous. You want to know what else 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.280 is ridiculous? Oh dude, please getting arrested for trying to 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:39.040 quit a job. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:40.440 I think I've done that. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.920 This is ridiculous. Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.880 heists and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.960 and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.079 Damn right zaren yes. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.079 Close your eyes. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.040 Fast. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.360 I'm just kidding you. Like classical music. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.640 I love classical music. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.280 Answer the question, sir, I reclaim my time. Well, I 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.919 have a whopper of a show for you today. I 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.000 too like classical music. Thanks for asking. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.440 Okay, do you like classical music? 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.440 Yes, I do. I just said that these these are 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.400 criming classical composers and musicians that I have for you today. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.160 Oh can you believe. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.720 That this is awesome? And this is not like Hector 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.960 Barreleos did some opium. This is like crazy stuff. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.200 Oh yeah, now this is Remember you did the stolen strategy. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.720 Now this is beyond beyond that, beyond that, your your 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.720 mind will be boggled at the level of crime. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.480 I'm gonna buckle up, buttercut. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.880 So yeah you should. Now, we don't have any hardcore 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.680 criminals in this one. What I'm trying to say, we 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.560 don't have arsonists or bank robbers. This is good, clean 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.320 fun Oh nice, just squeaky clean. That's what we're all 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:15.160 about here, clean Schubert. Oh do you play it? Do 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.040 you play an instrument? 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:16.440 Zeren? 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.359 Does harmonica count? Yeah? 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.760 I would count a harmonic musical instrument. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.320 Yeah, yeah, So I play harmonica, but I would say 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.120 I'm no musician. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.440 Okay, because like from the ages of about eight to twenty. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.320 I played the cello. That's a big secret. I couldn't 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.960 play good. No, I couldn't play to save my life today, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.000 I'm guessing. But like I played in this school orchestra 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.560 in high school and it really went with my whole 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.120 Like I have to wear net gear at night, and 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.920 I didn't attend one party in high school. Ye I play, Yeah, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.800 she'll play cello. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:50.560 I leaned in. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:51.520 I leaned in. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.480 I wore he garb too, by the way, just so 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.920 you know, only for six months, but I did wear it. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.800 Okay, well here I was. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.600 Leaning it fully adjusted. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.000 You're well come sharing with Sandford so Schubert, Yes, he 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.480 was one of my favorite composers to play. Oh really, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.080 and not necessarily to listen to I always, I mean 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.920 in that case, I like favored the tragic stuff in 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.520 a minor case. But boy howdy was he fun to 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.480 play for the strings. Yeah, very bouncy and not as 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.720 technically demanding as some Mozart stuff, but a nice little 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.159 challenge totally. The Schubert that we played didn't relegate the 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.400 cell out to just like long bass notes. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.640 Is holding the note. Yeah, you play a lot of 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.760 Beethoven too for the Yeah, but. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:32.920 We got to shine baby. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.640 Oh yeah, Schubert. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.400 So that's what I'm going to start yelling when I 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.520 stubbed my toe, or maybe if someone sneezes. I don't know. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.039 I'm open to anything with that. I'm taking suggestions. Franz Schubert, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.840 that little darling. He was an Austrian composer born in 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.960 seventeen ninety seven. Oh, I was six years old then. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.160 Yeah, you were just a sprite a little bit. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.720 He was in that late Classical early Romantic era. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.040 Yeah, romance. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.599 He wrote seven symphonies, lots of good chamber music. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:03.760 They brought it. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.160 That's what I'm trying to say. Do you want to 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.880 hear me? Try and say the name of the suburb 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.960 of Vienna where he grew up. Yes, Okay, I'm gonna 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.120 have to sound say fast him out fort Grund. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.000 I'm sorry I missed it. Can you say that again? 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.080 Him out fort Grund. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.479 I'm sorry I missed it. Could you say that one 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:18.960 more time? 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.000 Hum Ut fort Grooms Schubert. So he was a child prodigy. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.719 That's always fun. That's fun for the kid. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.200 And for everyone around. Everybody loves that. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.840 Yeah, he died when he was thirty one. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.679 Actually, their siblings. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.000 Oh so good. He died when he was thirty one 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.760 from what was likely mercury poison. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.160 Is he just like sucking on thermometers? 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.479 Well in the early eighteen hundreds, you know what that meant. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.800 The man was battling syphless. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.680 Oh he had a touch of the siff and he 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:44.560 needed the mercury. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:45.719 Oh yeah, he got around. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.920 Yeah yeah, Blackbeard did that too. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.240 Yeah, exactly. In fact, he and his pals loved to party. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:53.880 I bet it sounds like it. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.240 They would throw what they called shoe Bertie ads. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.640 Wait what, he had his own party. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.240 Name, schubertiads. Real ragers. They were intimate gatherings. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:05.880 Oh my god. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.920 Like, here's what they did. They all danced, and they 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.520 read poetry and they had political debates. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.120 That's salon they were leaning in. That's a salon leaning in. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.320 It's no wonder he had syphilis. I mean, come on, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.320 they're reading the poetry and the debates. So this gang, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.960 this bad boy club, this rat pack. They called themselves 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.200 Schubertia den like the men of the Schuberti eyes. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.080 Why are they on his jock? I don't know. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.240 So this was after the French Revolution, after the Napoleonic Wars. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.680 The Austrians they didn't want that stuff. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.800 Kitchen like the eighteen twenties. I got eighteen thirties. Yeah, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.680 I'm guessing because he was born seventeen ninety seven. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.680 So the Austrian police they were suspicious of such wild 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.840 youthful gathering. Of course, can't have students and artists and intellectuals, you. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:51.839 Know, upsets the public. 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:57.560 Thearon Nerd parties were surveilled. So in eighteen twenty, the 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.599 Austrian secret police pounced. They were like a little kitten 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.400 in the grass, pounced. They arrested Schubert and four friends 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:14.000 on suspicion of revolutionary activities. Sert yeah they he So 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.720 they arrest him and then Schubert he was reprimanded and 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.080 during the arrest for quote, inveighing against officials with insulting 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.960 and opprobrious language. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.559 Oh wow, talking foul. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.600 Yeah he was talking about but they just reprimanded him. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.480 So to translate the shoebies, you know, he said, first 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.360 off and the click you claim, that's the translation of it. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.600 He was the tupac to the secret police's junior mafia. Okay, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:46.080 following yes, yeah, the cops they were offended, they would 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:47.160 they let him go. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.160 Like little Officer Ricky. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.840 They let him go. But Schubert he had a best 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.520 buddy fellow by the name of Johann Sen, son of 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.880 the freedom fighter Franz Michael Sen. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.320 Oh, not the freedom fighter Franz ever so Johann. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.840 He was a writer slash poet. That's just how he 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.920 introduced himself to the syphilitic ladies. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:07.280 Ladies. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.080 He was hardcore. He had a street name. It was 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:17.680 Bombastis beba durwa Bebderva. I suppose bombastis Bebaderva. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.080 I don't understand he had a street name. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.440 I am not making this up. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.760 That was Oh, that was his street name. I thought 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.280 you were like he came from a street I didn't follow. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.120 That was his street name. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.439 He was a weird street It's hard to say bombastis Bebaderva. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.400 That's too many bees making it up. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.199 And I have no idea what it means, although I 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.560 think it's kidgeon Latin for loud pompous drunk. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.000 Yeah, to drink whatever, loud drunk. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.679 Yeah. So, mister boombastic, thank you. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.600 Much better street name. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.760 He popped out of the mouth. They call him Miss 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.640 the Boombastic Okay, so he popped off at the cops 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.760 at the same as Schubert. But then he ended up 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.680 getting imprisoned. I'm guessing probably because they're like your dad's 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:08.760 spark plug too. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.439 Yeah, and you're not a talented. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.760 Musician, right, So he got imprisoned for fourteen months without charges. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.640 They're just like you just sit here and think about 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.200 what you've met. So then they let him out, and 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.360 then he was permanently exiled from Vienna. And you know 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.080 he was yelling the same crazy tupac. Sure, so he 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.160 and Schubert never saw each other again. Oh, Schubert didn't 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.760 let that stop him from honoring his friend. He set 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:40.520 his music to sends poetry, including the famous song I'm 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.720 sure you know it go on Shungazong? Oh he wrote, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.040 he did. He totally wrote that. Wow, I know it's 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.840 like I always hear you humming it, dude. That song 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:56.000 bumps Shungazong. That is the story of Schubert's brush with 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.680 the law and his buddy's ridiculous crime. Now onto the 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:05.120 next Schubert. Dame ethel smythe the most British of names. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:05.760 Seriously. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.720 She was an English composer born in eighteen fifty eight 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.280 and she was part of the women's suffrage movement. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.760 Okay, she was that vote. Yeah. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.200 She was the first female composer to be granted a 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.160 Dame hood. Oh what a day, what a most British name. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.960 So as a female composer, a lady composer, if you will, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.360 she was pretty much dismissed by the powers. Imagine she 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.200 was always either too much or not enough. Oh, gals, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.800 I believe a lot of us can relate. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.520 That's the line of a woman that I understand. 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.800 Too much not enough. So she was wildly talented. Her 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.120 opera called The Wreckers, which like greatest opera name ever, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.400 The Wreckers, It was later referred to as the most 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.280 important English opera of the time. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.160 I've never heard of it. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.920 Me neither, and her works have been and continue to 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.320 be performed around the world to much acclaim. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.199 About to check her out, Dame smythe She was. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.200 An outsider, a firebrand. She was once engaged to Asker 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.000 Wilde's brother and at the. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.320 Age of seven, Bob Wilde. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.600 Yeah, Bobby Wilde. I think his name, honestly, I don't 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.160 have it in front of you. I think it's Willy Wilde. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.120 I'm not even kidding you. And at the age of 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.200 seventy one, she tried to seduce Virginia Wolf. Oh girls, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.480 she's all over the p I like it, So back 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.400 to the suffragist movie. In nineteen ten, Smyth joined the WSPU, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.320 the Women's Social and Political Union, and she even quit 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.360 music for a couple of years in order to join 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.040 their fight to take up arms, but not before penning 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.440 a song called the March of the Women, and she 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.840 took the melody for that from a traditional Italian folk song, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.160 so it's very browsing. The song became the official anthem 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.280 for the WSPU. It was sung on marches, at meetings, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:52.000 and in prisons. Prisons, you say, Elizabeth, tell me more, certainly. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.400 Elizabeth, I always want to hear more about prisons. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.439 Smith hung out a lot with the WSPU leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:11:59.319 and the. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.559 Two of them sounds familiar, painkhursed. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.920 Probably go on, And the two of them knew that 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.439 in order to advance the cause, they were going to 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:07.120 have to get tough. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.760 Yeah, of course, maybe a little diolent. It makes some demands. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.920 Yeah, don't forget this is the era of the anarchists. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.240 You might have to throw those things. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.920 I think you're gonna have to. So sometimes you know 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.439 you got to tear it down in order to build 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.120 it up or yes, some such and. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.559 Not with the master's tools from what I hear. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.480 Right, So paint Hurst thought that they should start breaking stuff. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.880 But natural, that's an easy, like first step. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.600 Let's get a little while right to break. Smythe was like, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.360 guess what, I want to break things too. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.120 I got a hammer. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.480 So Pincurse started telling the suffragettes to throw rocks through 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.760 the windows of any politician against a woman's right to vote. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.080 You see their house, you bust their windows. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.520 Break that glass. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.800 You see a misogynist who doesn't see a woman as 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.480 a human being deserving of respect, Well they don't deserve windows. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:49.440 That's that glass thing. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.160 Yeah, mess with f so you get bipped. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.240 Yeah. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.360 So Pinkhurst, she was all about it. Here's one problem. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.240 She pulled Smyth aside told her there was a problem. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.079 She didn't know how to throw things. Like literally, yeah, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.640 She's like, guess what, I can't throw things? So I 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.280 try underhand it total keen Athleen. She's like, no problem, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.360 I totally know how to throw things, and I have 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.240 a deep desired erect shot. Again, gals, I think some 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.360 of us can roll wait the rage. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.160 It is real surface. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.160 So smythe she took pankers out to the forest and 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.440 they threw rocks at trees for practice. Yeah, they practiced. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.000 I love it. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.640 And they practiced until old girl was chucking stones like 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.320 nobody's business. I like to imagine that the two of 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.720 them got so good that they were embedding stones in 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.360 the bark of trees and they were like successfully hunting. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.680 Deer like straws and ari the wood. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.400 They invented modern baseball pitching, and then they invented a 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.359 digital speed gun to clock their throas that were consistently 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.280 north of one hundred and twenty five miles an hour. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.240 And then they realized how dangerous the technology was for 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.440 this speed gun that they invented, so they buried the 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.200 device in those same woods, and they gave a treasure 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.560 map indicating its location to a young girl. Okay, and 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.760 that young girl grew up to be none other than 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.240 Jennifer Garner, who has guarded the secret ever since. And 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:10.320 I just like to imagine that Rocks girl, Schubert Rocks 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:15.520 Rocks So nineteen twelve, Subert rocks. Oh hey, nineteen twelve, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.320 the women of the WSPU. They got together to go 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.080 on a window smashing campaign. Just lay waste to all 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.840 the windows of the men in power who didn't think 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:24.440 they should vote. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.400 One hundred and nine and rocks are cheap. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.080 Why you just get them anywhere? One hundred and nine 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.720 women got together and they went a shattering. Smyth went 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.800 to the home of Colonel Lewis Harcourt's Secretary of State 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:36.560 for the colonies. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:37.360 Get that glass. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.320 Why why did she go after the colonies? Well, he said, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.000 if all women were as beautiful and wise as his 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.960 own wife, they would have already won the right to vote. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.920 Wow, it doesn't make sense. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.600 On so many leves, right, But they're like, I don't 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.720 stand for those kind of insults. Attack, yes, and they. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.120 Throw mess your face up, buddies. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.000 So of course they were arrested and they did two 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.000 months in Holloway Prison. Nice And it was there that 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.920 the women found strength and distraction in singing the March 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:07.560 of the Woman. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.520 I was about to say, they're just sitting there singing 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:10.200 and rocket. Yeah. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.640 So the conductor, Thomas Beacham, he went to visit Smythe 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.080 while she was in the clink, and he later recalled 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.120 watching the suffragettes in the inner courtyard of the prison, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.400 quote marching round it and singing lustily their war chant 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.080 while the composer beaming approbation from an overlooking upper window. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:34.000 Beat time and almost bachic frenzy with a toothbrush. She's 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.640 like conducting him with a toothbrush, Like, yeah, ladies. Anyway, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.360 So Smith, like I said, she did get her recognition. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.480 She imagine that on day seventeen of singing that song, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.000 were we still doing this walking out a circle in 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.800 the song? I don't even hear the. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.200 Words any other one. You can like mess. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.160 Around, try just something else to mix up the meter. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.760 So, like I said, she became a Dame Commander of 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.000 the Order of the British Empire debat eight Whoa nineteen 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.000 twenty two. She was also awarded honorary doctorates in music 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:06.800 from the University of Durham and Oxford. Yeah. So. She 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.360 died in nineteen forty four at the age of eighty six. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.400 A life well lived. Let's take a break. When we 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.400 come back, I'll have more classical music high jinks for 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:16.880 you night. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:38.600 So I don't make a rock pole Schubert. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.880 What's up, Sarin, Your name is Saren, Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.480 that's not your name, No, it is not. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.120 Where do you think he's from Albania? 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.480 Yeah, of course he was an English composer. Was born 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.320 in nineteen oh five. They made him a night in 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:56.280 nineteen sixties. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.280 Oh, they gave him the sword. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.240 Yeah, and from that moment forward he was four to 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.159 wear a chain mail suit, effectively ruining his career since 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:12.960 it was both noisy and hot full metal. He came 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.400 from a well off family. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.720 This guy, I'm guessing he said. He was. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.320 Pretty much all from his mother's side, and so while 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.440 they were fancy folk, they were also pretty subversive. His 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.719 his mom was big in the suffragist movement, just like 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.320 James Smith. The family also pushed for Irish home rule excellent, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.520 and they were skeptical of organized religion. So they were 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:34.800 not like their peers. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.520 Yeah, they were very out of step sometimes, tipp It. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.080 He created an anti war masterpiece, A Child of Our Time, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.119 rub this is your favorite song, right? A Child of 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.400 our time the time, Sir tipp It. He was so 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.679 horrified by the start of World War Two that he 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:56.280 started writing this oratorio. Newsweek said it was quote something 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.160 Handel might have written had he lived in the age 0:17:59.200 --> 0:17:59.919 of Auschwitz. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:00.879 Huh. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.959 Yeah. So the oratorio, it's about the events leading up 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:08.280 to Krystal Knock, a violent, deadly, horrific, coordinated attack on 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.000 Jewish citizens in Germany in nineteen thirty eight. So it 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:17.000 has a three part structure based on Hondel's Messiah. But 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.320 then he used Negro spirituals in place of the traditional 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.080 corals of oratorios, so kind of mixed it all up. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.080 So Tippett was heartbroken over the inaction of the Allies 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.840 in nineteen thirty eight when they just left Jewish refugees stranded. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.520 He said, quote, I came to the conclusion that there 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.720 was some kind of terrible mythology involved, that people were 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.600 only willing to release their compassion in a war. So 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.000 he wrote his opus. But that wasn't all. He was 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:50.240 a conscientious objector and a staunch pacifist, a very unpopular 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:51.440 position in England. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:52.800 Especially during the warriors. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.800 Yeah, and that's what we're talking about. Yeah, So orchestras 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.879 they disbanded during the war, cities are being bombed, re 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.080 sources are you know, needed to put towards the war efforts. Sadly, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.200 young men or some of those resources. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.359 We need that clarinet read for the war effort. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.560 Right, So they're fighting a noble cause, to be sure, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.200 But sir Tippett wasn't with it. Lucky for him, Morley 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.560 College in London was hiring in the middle of the war. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.639 He got the job of director of music there in 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.080 nineteen forty Wow, which I just can't get my head around. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:24.600 We need to keep the spirits of. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.000 Its facilities had been like pretty much bombed out. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.320 Are the kids going to college in class? 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:34.480 I guess between the roads, I don't know. Tippet he 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.000