[Applause]
[Music]
the final movement of Symphony number
nine by composer Ludwig van Beethoven is
often referred to as the ode to joy’ Y
so the ode to joy’ is a poem that is
inside this movement by the German poet
Frederick’s killer so there is actually
an interesting story surrounding this
piece what however it is that this
interesting piece is so interesting that
people often forget the significance of
this piece in shaping history itself so
as the story goes Beethoven while
everybody heard that piece being played
Beethoven heard this nothing by the time
he was doing this he was in his mid-50s
and he did not know that this would be
his final completed piece and when he
completed it he demanded that he would
conduct this piece and so he went up to
the premiere night Vienna with the
people of Vienna watching him and he
started conducting waving his hands
around crazily but what people didn’t
know was that he was off measures by so
many measures that by the time this
piece had ended the performance ended he
was still waving his hand around and
then the co conductor of this
performance turned him around to show
him the whole crowd applauding him as if
he was some national hero back from war
well the people of Vienna were wrong and
they were right in a way Beethoven was a
hero he wasn’t a hero in a sense of war
but then he did shape history and I was
of course he was also a hero in music
but how did he shake music the people of
Vienna did not know that night that this
piece would be played when the Chilean
people were protesting against the
Pinochet dictatorship and the people of
Vienna did not know that night that this
piece would be broadcasted all over
Tiananmen Square when the Chinese
students were protesting and what they
did not know was that this piece was
performed together by East Berlin
West Berlin after the Berlin Wall has
been taken down good afternoon my name
is zero Fuu and I am currently a rising
senior studying Dominican international
school so before I go deeper into my
talk I’d like to tell you a little bit
about myself so like all students my age
I immerse myself in academics but of
course I enjoy some extracurriculars
such as debate and music most
importantly so how did I come in contact
with music well around six years old I
started playing the piano because my
parents wanted me to play the piano of
course and then in grade one I picked up
the cello and a bow and I’d like to say
that starting from that moment a fire in
me started burning until this very day
but then I’d be lying to you for their
purposes of this talk because sadly it
didn’t music to me was always a skill
that I had to master because simply my
parents wanted me to and so sadly by
grade six
I dropped piano and stood up to this day
I still regret that decision
music to me was just tunes melodies and
something to perform but everything
changed as you see in this picture a few
years ago when I traveled with my
parents back to my grandparents place a
small rural village in the center of
Taiwan so as per usual it was Chinese
New Year and they held this huge
celebration in front of a temple and as
you can see this car is converted into a
stage with all the colors and so and I
was asked to perform my uncle who was a
host then and you can imagine how weird
it was for me to perform the cello in
the middle of a traditional Taiwanese
celebration and so I went up there and
under this and brought out a few pieces
that I had practiced before it was a
traditional Taiwanese pieces which I
didn’t really care about what the
meaning was and so I played and if
you’ve ever been to a traditional
Taiwanese tempo you know that the first
thing that would trike you was the noise
and the chaos there was no way that that
crowd kept in silence and that color is
full of like elderly people who watch me
as I perform and all although while I
could only think of let’s just get
/ with this performance come on let’s
get offstage fast because I was really
nervous playing in front of the crowd
and so I finished and there was this
silence
I was surprised what was going on I
thought to myself I looked into the
faces of some of the elderly people I
saw tears in their eyes tears did I
really play that back and so after I
came offstage I asked my grandparents my
grandparents congratulated me of course
but then they told me my music reminded
those elderly people about their
relatives who have not returned home yet
so surprisingly the pieces I have played
were actually pretty sad for a
celebration like this and those songs
reminded them of their loved ones still
out of their village that are yet to be
home so at that moment I was quite
surprised how music was really more than
music as I have said music slowly became
an instrument of change because it could
trigger emotions and at that moment I
vowed to continue this passion and music
and as I have said there was no fire
there but certainly starting from that
moment a fire started so today our talk
is has the theme solving for y which
which to my understanding is solving the
world’s issues and so now you may ask me
how does music relate to all of this how
has music going to solve the world’s
issues well before you asked me that I
asked you in return what issues are
there in our world to solve so just to
name a few
poverty war racism sexism climate change
and so on and how can music help this
well actually I have a solution already
prepared for you and it’s summed up in a
word basically love I know some of you
must be giggling to yourselves how can
you say love solves everything love
compassion awareness shows everything
and yes I understand that it’s quite
naive and abstract but to come to think
of it yes you do need love in the case
of solving the world’s issues with a
little bit of love you come to care
about one another
sideyou your neighbors in this global
village with a little bit of love become
to be aware of each other’s differences
and come to a set and learn from each
other with a little bit of love you look
around at your environment and you see
oh we need to do something to change
this and now my mission today is not to
tell you how Almighty and powerful love
is my mission is to tell you how to
spread that love because we surely need
that passion to change the world it is
as it is today and so how does this
happen well the answer is actually quite
simple as it has already already
business stated 700 years ago by a
famous man William Shakespeare who in
one of his poems in one of scripts wrote
if music be the food of love play on
what does this mean well basically he
means that if music can help love
survive continues to go on then play on
play the music so that love can keep
going on and how do I bring this to my
talk well if love is the answer to our
global issues or an abstract answer that
pushes forward changes to be made then
what are we waiting for crank up that
music play that music so that love can
go on so we can change the world truly
and solve our issues now of course
William Shakespeare puts it quite
figuratively you’re thinking cure
something this kid is saying fix the
world with love and everything and music
how is this even related but then let’s
look at it in a more biological aspect
so in bio class I learned that this is
the human brain that controls most of
our emotions well all of our emotions
and then when you hear music
this happens that red part that lights
out is the auditory cortex where we
receive music the sounds but does music
stay in your head in your auditory
cortex that’s just south no this happens
just a split-second afterwards or even
shorter this is the frontal lobe where
our problem-solving and emotions are
controlled as well as many other
functions so wait a minute
music goes in BAM becomes something else
emotions music directly becomes a
trigger for emotions you’re triggering
really strong emotions such as love hate
anger and so on so music actually is
becoming more than sounds music is
actually becoming the triggers to
emotions and what drives forward our
actions most emotions
so therefore music tries forward
emotions emotions force us to act and
that is how we can act on music so to
give you a few examples in history some
of you may be familiar with Woodstock
1969
what’s up 1969 as the music was a music
festival that took place in America well
I was not born then but then I can tell
you from videos I’ve watched that it
must have been really interesting so
what happened then was then was that the
American troops were still in Vietnam
during the Vietnam War and these people
United in this festival for two reasons
and two reasons only peace and love
summed up by this symbol and so honestly
I do not know how effective this event
was that changed the course of history
but I can tell you that when I watched a
famous clip of Jimi Hendrix walking up
to stage with this unique swagger and
bringing out his guitar and playing
national anthem
I felt something different well the
national anthem was beautiful actually
it wasn’t he played the first few verses
and then suddenly he hit it with the
worst noises I could ever hear played on
a guitar what was happening I asked
myself didn’t people love this
apparently he made the most awful noises
a guitar could make for a reason and I
looked it up and turned out that he was
mimicking the sounds of the Vietnam War
in that song I could hear the people
crying the people being burned alive
the bullets being fired the bombs being
set off and at that moment I really
understood how and why he did this music
in this case was a cry for anti-war
movement
it was a cry for peace and it’s music
like this a truly pushes forward
emotions and makes us want to do things
to change it another example we can
relate to more in Taiwan is the
sunflower student movement the sunflower
student movement happened just a few
years ago when the student students
protean united to protest against the
government due to the political issues i
won’t go too deep into what really
happened and who was right and who was
wrong but while they stormed the
Taiwanese legislature hall
they had one song on their lips that
banded them together uniting them
together it was called island sunrise by
the Taiwanese local band fire
extinguisher now you’re about to hear
the piece a short part of the piece and
then you’ll see the lyrics and you tell
me why you think this truly United us
all
this piece was broadcasted all over
Taiwan through the internet through
radio stations and TV stations and at
the same time people all across Taiwan
were singing this song and this song
went on to almost be Nam to be nominated
almost win an award in the Music Academy
in Taiwan so what gave this song power
what drives us forward when times were
hard
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Music]
as you have heard this is a piece that’s
that banned this is a piece of this is a
song that banded all of us together and
United us in one same cause so what do I
want you to take away from my talk today
well easy start to accept that music is
a viable way to to push for it actions
music is an instrument of change and for
parents do not belittle the power of
music and educate this your children so
that they know the importance of music
as a child I never saw music as this I
would never believed what I was saying
today I think music was just as Co I had
to practice every day and every day
until I realized the importance but then
I realized that I lost old all those
years where I could have been practicing
music where I could have been educated
that music is more than just sounds and
for students I know most of us already
like music so continue loving music
music could change your life could
change the world as I have told you and
so I’d like to conclude by reminding you
that if music be the food of love play
on and by all means play on to change
the world thank you for your time
[Applause]
[Music]
the final movement of Symphony number
nine by composer Ludwig van Beethoven is
often referred to as the ode to joy’ Y
so the ode to joy’ is a poem that is
inside this movement by the German poet
Frederick’s killer so there is actually
an interesting story surrounding this
piece what however it is that this
interesting piece is so interesting that
people often forget the significance of
this piece in shaping history itself so
as the story goes Beethoven while
everybody heard that piece being played
Beethoven heard this nothing by the time
he was doing this he was in his mid-50s
and he did not know that this would be
his final completed piece and when he
completed it he demanded that he would
conduct this piece and so he went up to
the premiere night Vienna with the
people of Vienna watching him and he
started conducting waving his hands
around crazily but what people didn’t
know was that he was off measures by so
many measures that by the time this
piece had ended the performance ended he
was still waving his hand around and
then the co conductor of this
performance turned him around to show
him the whole crowd applauding him as if
he was some national hero back from war
well the people of Vienna were wrong and
they were right in a way Beethoven was a
hero he wasn’t a hero in a sense of war
but then he did shape history and I was
of course he was also a hero in music
but how did he shake music the people of
Vienna did not know that night that this
piece would be played when the Chilean
people were protesting against the
Pinochet dictatorship and the people of
Vienna did not know that night that this
piece would be broadcasted all over
Tiananmen Square when the Chinese
students were protesting and what they
did not know was that this piece was
performed together by East Berlin
West Berlin after the Berlin Wall has
been taken down good afternoon my name
is zero Fuu and I am currently a rising
senior studying Dominican international
school so before I go deeper into my
talk I’d like to tell you a little bit
about myself so like all students my age
I immerse myself in academics but of
course I enjoy some extracurriculars
such as debate and music most
importantly so how did I come in contact
with music well around six years old I
started playing the piano because my
parents wanted me to play the piano of
course and then in grade one I picked up
the cello and a bow and I’d like to say
that starting from that moment a fire in
me started burning until this very day
but then I’d be lying to you for their
purposes of this talk because sadly it
didn’t music to me was always a skill
that I had to master because simply my
parents wanted me to and so sadly by
grade six
I dropped piano and stood up to this day
I still regret that decision
music to me was just tunes melodies and
something to perform but everything
changed as you see in this picture a few
years ago when I traveled with my
parents back to my grandparents place a
small rural village in the center of
Taiwan so as per usual it was Chinese
New Year and they held this huge
celebration in front of a temple and as
you can see this car is converted into a
stage with all the colors and so and I
was asked to perform my uncle who was a
host then and you can imagine how weird
it was for me to perform the cello in
the middle of a traditional Taiwanese
celebration and so I went up there and
under this and brought out a few pieces
that I had practiced before it was a
traditional Taiwanese pieces which I
didn’t really care about what the
meaning was and so I played and if
you’ve ever been to a traditional
Taiwanese tempo you know that the first
thing that would trike you was the noise
and the chaos there was no way that that
crowd kept in silence and that color is
full of like elderly people who watch me
as I perform and all although while I
could only think of let’s just get
/ with this performance come on let’s
get offstage fast because I was really
nervous playing in front of the crowd
and so I finished and there was this
silence
I was surprised what was going on I
thought to myself I looked into the
faces of some of the elderly people I
saw tears in their eyes tears did I
really play that back and so after I
came offstage I asked my grandparents my
grandparents congratulated me of course
but then they told me my music reminded
those elderly people about their
relatives who have not returned home yet
so surprisingly the pieces I have played
were actually pretty sad for a
celebration like this and those songs
reminded them of their loved ones still
out of their village that are yet to be
home so at that moment I was quite
surprised how music was really more than
music as I have said music slowly became
an instrument of change because it could
trigger emotions and at that moment I
vowed to continue this passion and music
and as I have said there was no fire
there but certainly starting from that
moment a fire started so today our talk
is has the theme solving for y which
which to my understanding is solving the
world’s issues and so now you may ask me
how does music relate to all of this how
has music going to solve the world’s
issues well before you asked me that I
asked you in return what issues are
there in our world to solve so just to
name a few
poverty war racism sexism climate change
and so on and how can music help this
well actually I have a solution already
prepared for you and it’s summed up in a
word basically love I know some of you
must be giggling to yourselves how can
you say love solves everything love
compassion awareness shows everything
and yes I understand that it’s quite
naive and abstract but to come to think
of it yes you do need love in the case
of solving the world’s issues with a
little bit of love you come to care
about one another
sideyou your neighbors in this global
village with a little bit of love become
to be aware of each other’s differences
and come to a set and learn from each
other with a little bit of love you look
around at your environment and you see
oh we need to do something to change
this and now my mission today is not to
tell you how Almighty and powerful love
is my mission is to tell you how to
spread that love because we surely need
that passion to change the world it is
as it is today and so how does this
happen well the answer is actually quite
simple as it has already already
business stated 700 years ago by a
famous man William Shakespeare who in
one of his poems in one of scripts wrote
if music be the food of love play on
what does this mean well basically he
means that if music can help love
survive continues to go on then play on
play the music so that love can keep
going on and how do I bring this to my
talk well if love is the answer to our
global issues or an abstract answer that
pushes forward changes to be made then
what are we waiting for crank up that
music play that music so that love can
go on so we can change the world truly
and solve our issues now of course
William Shakespeare puts it quite
figuratively you’re thinking cure
something this kid is saying fix the
world with love and everything and music
how is this even related but then let’s
look at it in a more biological aspect
so in bio class I learned that this is
the human brain that controls most of
our emotions well all of our emotions
and then when you hear music
this happens that red part that lights
out is the auditory cortex where we
receive music the sounds but does music
stay in your head in your auditory
cortex that’s just south no this happens
just a split-second afterwards or even
shorter this is the frontal lobe where
our problem-solving and emotions are
controlled as well as many other
functions so wait a minute
music goes in BAM becomes something else
emotions music directly becomes a
trigger for emotions you’re triggering
really strong emotions such as love hate
anger and so on so music actually is
becoming more than sounds music is
actually becoming the triggers to
emotions and what drives forward our
actions most emotions
so therefore music tries forward
emotions emotions force us to act and
that is how we can act on music so to
give you a few examples in history some
of you may be familiar with Woodstock
1969
what’s up 1969 as the music was a music
festival that took place in America well
I was not born then but then I can tell
you from videos I’ve watched that it
must have been really interesting so
what happened then was then was that the
American troops were still in Vietnam
during the Vietnam War and these people
United in this festival for two reasons
and two reasons only peace and love
summed up by this symbol and so honestly
I do not know how effective this event
was that changed the course of history
but I can tell you that when I watched a
famous clip of Jimi Hendrix walking up
to stage with this unique swagger and
bringing out his guitar and playing
national anthem
I felt something different well the
national anthem was beautiful actually
it wasn’t he played the first few verses
and then suddenly he hit it with the
worst noises I could ever hear played on
a guitar what was happening I asked
myself didn’t people love this
apparently he made the most awful noises
a guitar could make for a reason and I
looked it up and turned out that he was
mimicking the sounds of the Vietnam War
in that song I could hear the people
crying the people being burned alive
the bullets being fired the bombs being
set off and at that moment I really
understood how and why he did this music
in this case was a cry for anti-war
movement
it was a cry for peace and it’s music
like this a truly pushes forward
emotions and makes us want to do things
to change it another example we can
relate to more in Taiwan is the
sunflower student movement the sunflower
student movement happened just a few
years ago when the student students
protean united to protest against the
government due to the political issues i
won’t go too deep into what really
happened and who was right and who was
wrong but while they stormed the
Taiwanese legislature hall
they had one song on their lips that
banded them together uniting them
together it was called island sunrise by
the Taiwanese local band fire
extinguisher now you’re about to hear
the piece a short part of the piece and
then you’ll see the lyrics and you tell
me why you think this truly United us
all
this piece was broadcasted all over
Taiwan through the internet through
radio stations and TV stations and at
the same time people all across Taiwan
were singing this song and this song
went on to almost be Nam to be nominated
almost win an award in the Music Academy
in Taiwan so what gave this song power
what drives us forward when times were
hard
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Music]
as you have heard this is a piece that’s
that banned this is a piece of this is a
song that banded all of us together and
United us in one same cause so what do I
want you to take away from my talk today
well easy start to accept that music is
a viable way to to push for it actions
music is an instrument of change and for
parents do not belittle the power of
music and educate this your children so
that they know the importance of music
as a child I never saw music as this I
would never believed what I was saying
today I think music was just as Co I had
to practice every day and every day
until I realized the importance but then
I realized that I lost old all those
years where I could have been practicing
music where I could have been educated
that music is more than just sounds and
for students I know most of us already
like music so continue loving music
music could change your life could
change the world as I have told you and
so I’d like to conclude by reminding you
that if music be the food of love play
on and by all means play on to change
the world thank you for your time
[Applause]
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