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Does the world still need classical music? What about orchestras? In this gorgeous talk and performance, violinist Joshua Bell and the Chamber Orchestra of America play selections of classical music masterpieces — from Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and more — sharing why this art form remains a singularly unifying force. (Recorded…
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@TriDangng-v8t
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 am
Keep inspiring your audience. Your videos bring positivity and joy.😈🧋🏄
@CatDangng
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 am
Keep sharing your talent with the world! Your videos are always admirable and inspiring.🏆🌝🧉
@ArnobSome
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 am
Nice
@DS-pe8tt
September 11, 2025 at 11:53 am
6:43 I ❤ Amadeus movie!
@the_legend_of_Swift
September 11, 2025 at 12:07 pm
you all are AMAZING
@KOPMEMBER1
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 pm
Classical music speaks to the soul
@MarToKro
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 pm
❤
@KOPMEMBER1
September 11, 2025 at 12:17 pm
Earth Reminds me a little bit of the end of gustov holtz’ the planets. Beautiful, it was also quite relaxing. Like sitting outside on a summer day.
@CaRadJa
September 11, 2025 at 12:24 pm
As a hybrid violinist for 24 years (folklore & classical) I absolutely love classical music & it inspires me ❤️🎻
@delenamacho7058
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 pm
❤ love love love this.
@phillipjoubert1119
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 pm
MOST EXCELLENT TED talk, I would like a 3 hour version.
@vijaybabu3054
September 11, 2025 at 12:36 pm
Classical music is the cultural heritage carried forward. We have the gigantic legendary composers on the planet from time to take a glance back to history of the planet
@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 pm
Beautifully put!
@FrancescoDiMauro
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Post-modernism almost tanked the whole classical music enterprise, let’s hope our children will rediscover the beauty in melody. ❤🎻
@The.Mind.Vault.Studio
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 pm
18 minutes felt like 2 — that’s the power of music.
@crimeancomposer
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Im musician, and wanted find new topic for improve my speaking. But…
@AnnieB-v8j
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Thank you for the reminder of what my parents introduced me to, and so enjoyed listening to together. I recall my mom’s ecstatic expressions as she absorbed the music. I miss her so much!
@deejayvaidya
September 11, 2025 at 4:20 pm
That’s great ❤ Also appreciate that they used electronically amplified sound. Melding tradition with technology.
@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 pm
They have a timelessness about them. Very cool
@learn_English_easy.101
September 11, 2025 at 4:50 pm
That was the most beautiful, meaningfull and significant TED show I’ve ever watched.
Now classical music is not only boring, but it’s been more exciting. Thank you
We need more shiws like this for sure❤
@gpenrod5221
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 pm
There are study after study after study that shows what music can do to develop the human person (not to exclude animals as well). But let me share a small story that is factual and true that gives credit to the power that music has. And I’ve heard numerous stories but I’ll stop at just this one.
I am a musician by skill. But I work in another trade because I couldn’t see making a living the way I wanted to as a musician. I do it as a hobby and enjoy it a lot. Now to the story.
A friend I know of lived on a small farm. As a toddler, one day his dad was burning a pile of weeds. Somehow this toddler got too close to the fire and was severely burned. Doctors of the day gave little hope that he would even survive this. I don’t know how much time he spent at the hospital, but the outlook was very bleak for him. His mother, the angel mom that she was grew frustrated at the hospital and lack of hope they provided. Somewhere along the line she took him home and cared for her personally. Her philosophy for treating him was the most unique I had ever heard of. All day long she would play record after record after record of classical music in his room. It turned out that he did survive and heal up way beyond what the doctors ever thought possible. He was never able to run like the other kids again and he was a bit slow mentally. But he did grow to have a solid appreciation for music and it played a major part of him living and healing.
Some studies have shown how the power of music can what we call “rewire the brain” or get to parts of the brain we normally can’t reach. It has a most profound influence over us to the level that we might barely understand or know the depths of. Never under estimate what music or musical education can do for the person. Removing it from schools to lack of funding is turning out to be a tragedy in most all cases. Because some administrators just don’t understand that lesson and value, nor did they learn to appreciate it.
@ardeithhopkins7628
September 12, 2025 at 7:16 pm
If all music (solo instruments, orchestras, advertisings, birds, insects, night clubs, muzak, movie sound tracks, dance clubs ETC was silenced for just TWO days what an epiphany that would be!
@SiyaTheeInertV10LIN
September 11, 2025 at 6:36 pm
Loved this. As a violinist myself, I appreciate seeing us coming out of our shell. I’ve been preaching classical music to everyone around me like an evangelist.
@porridgegod42
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 pm
this is such a wonderful talk
@porridgegod42
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 pm
they did such a good job of capturing the music the way a full orchestra would
@AboutMe-ml1fr
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Wooh thanks for share 🙏🏼💕💗🩷💪🏻🧠💕
@demetriusjohnson5358
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 pm
One of the best YouTube videos of all time
@pauliberg3492
September 11, 2025 at 11:04 pm
music brings pieces of heaven down to earth.
@pauliberg3492
September 11, 2025 at 11:09 pm
excellent , could be longer, much longer.
@RB_0.77
September 12, 2025 at 1:27 am
Wonderful!
@JakobPagels
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 am
Fantastic!
@jacquelinelombard5029
September 12, 2025 at 9:25 am
TED never disappoints music is a gift indeed ….
@wendy5286
September 12, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Beautiful, thankful for this music and the explanations.
@anacuevas9273
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Thank you for sharing this with us ❤
@cvg706
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Vivaldi so effortlessly played by Joshua Bell.
@patriciam.figueroa3255
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 pm
What a beautiful and inspiring experience. Thanks for this precious gift.
@melissa1429-m3w
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Music education…music…art helps us all transcend. Looking for all the transcendence can find daily. 🎶✨🫶🏻
@ClaudioAdrianFuentesAlem-on8iw
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 pm
!!! Excellent !!!
@annlandreville
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 pm
So touching! Thank you Mr. Bell, with your orchestra, you pull my tears out❤
@williamreed7630
September 12, 2025 at 4:56 pm
Fantastic!!! Education is the key to building a better world and for the survival of Art, all Arts. I completely agree with Josh and I support this cause, wholeheartedly! One of the greatest gifts one can give, especially a child, is the gift of music. If you haven’t seen it already, I highly recommend seeing and sharing the movie, “Music of the Heart”, with everyone you know. Josh (when he was a kid) as well as Meryl Streep were in this movie. I think it is among the top 3 movies, about music, ever made! A Huge thank you to Josh and his orchestra for putting together this presentation, which is Much Needed, now more than ever!!!! Only wish you guys had have included Barber’s Adagio for Strings or Mahler’s Adagietto (from: Symphony 5) or something by Vaughan-Williams or all that I have mentioned.
@karefree_3301
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 pm
I saw him in concert when I was in 6th grade ❤
@elobedghouniharboyan3825
September 12, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Wwwoooww Thank you
@MikeDiGriz
September 13, 2025 at 6:08 am
У кого здесь самая дорогая скрипка и почем? )
@dominicamichalke7595
September 13, 2025 at 6:08 am
Great music and great thoughts. Thank you.
@rohullahkarimi744
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 am
Thats why I really love violin, the sound and spirit of music and emotions.
@DaisyG33
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 am
A shared love of classical music, particularly opera (and there is no opera without the orchestra – think O Patria Mia of Verdi’s Aida – it is the orchestra that speaks to the longing to return home), is what brought my husband and me together, first as friends over 50 years ago, and as marriage partners over 40 years ago. The life lessons of opera is the common thread that has held our marriage together through the times we might otherwise have said “Enough!” No regrets!
We celebrate the newest generation of young adult performers in pianist Nitai Feldman, related to us by marriage. Look him up on Youtube! Also, he performs with the Mediterranean Trio, so look up violinist Adriano Piscopo as well.
@iamdabestinbio
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 am
Youtube, how dare u hide this from me for a dayyy 😡
@ashen_vio
September 13, 2025 at 9:23 am
I love this video as a classical music admirer and a violinist and the performer being maestro Joshua Bell ❤
@drbettyschueler3235
September 13, 2025 at 10:06 am
That was one of the best TED talks ever.
@RitaGatton
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 am
Franz Schubert wrote the most beautiful version of the “Ave Maria”. He also wrote the incredibly beautiful “Standchen”, or “Serenade”. If you want to hear something beautiful, listen to “Standchen”.
@thewildcellist
September 13, 2025 at 10:17 am
Great, BUT. And it is a VERY big “but:” they played zero music by women. Not a single excerpt, not even a verbal reference.
Alongside the famous male canon composers whose music Bell played – during Bach’s, Tchaikovsky’s, etc lifetimes, master women composers also lived and worked. Many of their pieces would be well known and imbued upon our collective consciousness in the same way that the works of Beethoven and Vivaldi are – _if we heard them._
Bell said, “…the more times you hear these pieces, the better they get…they take on deeper and deeper meanings, for the listener and for the players.”
Exactly so. Which is why it’s so desperately important that works by women composers – some of which are not only great, but literally as good as music gets – need to be played, heard and especially, taught.
A classical music canon that consists solely of music by male composers is unhealthy and wrong, on so many levels.
If great music by women didn’t exist – if the ‘good stuff’ actually were only by men, then fine, carry on. But that’s not true.
We have over a century of recordings, by numerous artists and orchestras, and almost all of them are of music by men. Toscanini didn’t record Mayer’s seventh with the NBC orchestra in the 50s. If he had, would we all know that piece? Quite possibly. If Casals, Cortot et al had recorded and championed the chamber music of Strohl, Leleu, Beach, etc would those composers’ works be famous now? It’s highly likely that they would.
Music by women in many cases, IS different from men’s, in a good way. And it needs to be heard.
It’s 2025. Time for the perpetuation of the all-male classical musical canon to come to on end.
@FruitofSilence
September 13, 2025 at 11:05 am
Great video! Thank you so much – we really need this and many more!
@socomelicoff3271
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 am
BRAVO!!
@lxdgr8
September 13, 2025 at 11:36 am
Judas
@willcwhite
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 pm
This guy has made so much money but he can’t buy a jacket that fits. smh
@willene58
September 13, 2025 at 2:12 pm
Please have more from This fabulous Orchestra.Loved, Earth from Puts.
@oluwatomisinhephzibah743
September 13, 2025 at 2:57 pm
It made me smile and grin so well
@matthewlinaman
September 13, 2025 at 4:36 pm
What a great video. So amazing that I can tear up in the just the first three chords of Tchaikovsky’s serenade. Joshua Bell is right, classical music’s meaning gets deeper and deeper the more you engage with it, like any work of timeless art and true beauty.
@OnyinyeUme
September 13, 2025 at 5:24 pm
❤❤❤❤❣️❣️
@JohnWillardLimaJarvis
September 13, 2025 at 6:06 pm
The best Ted ever, more of this please
@tobypg5542
September 13, 2025 at 6:28 pm
Joshua Bell you must be very proud of chamber orchestra thank you for making my day enjoyable.
@madelulopes87
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 pm
I also believe in music education.
@carlbussmann7559
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 pm
How Wonderful!
@ypshan1
September 13, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Add a piece by John Williams to represent the 1900’s.
@1013AM
September 13, 2025 at 7:21 pm
Beautiful ❤
@Musicislife--826
September 13, 2025 at 7:43 pm
I love this TED Talk as a classical music enjoyer. This is beautiful
@laletemanolete
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 pm
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@ZhuljetaVreto
September 13, 2025 at 11:08 pm
HE , CHRIST AND ANTI CHRIST ARE HEADED! DONT YOU HAVE HEARED THIS TRUTHS AS THE EATTEN CHILDREN IN FAZA US ABOUT!! ALLAH IS OUR CREATOR! REMOVE THE BLINDNESS!
@msbamarivic3729
September 13, 2025 at 11:11 pm
For today’s generation, every violinist needs to explain to the audience the circumstances why the composer created that piece of music
@msbamarivic3729
September 13, 2025 at 11:14 pm
This is the new way of presenting classical music to the needs generation
@VGBGI
September 14, 2025 at 12:18 am
Fantastic excellent outstanding melodious devotional rhythmical music crossing all boundaries of all sorts towards unification of the world. God bless you and your team. Music is a short cut to god realization.
@israelcanova
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 am
Thank you very much Mr. Bell for this delightful, heart-fullfilling gift ❤
@somanawan3299
September 14, 2025 at 3:47 am
I was introduced to Classical music 2 years before and everytime I hear it, it feels beautiful.
What a performance!
@friedemannvonekesparre
September 14, 2025 at 5:08 am
Its reminding me of the good old Leonard Bernstein‘s young people‘s concerts. We need more classical music on tv!
@jakespivey3716
September 14, 2025 at 12:04 pm
Joshua too is a great ambassador of classical music 🎵
@Gabriel-in1kz
September 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
LOVE THIS TED TALK! AMAZINg
@shouqie844
September 14, 2025 at 7:06 am
The contemporary composer you showcased is indeed an example of a modern Schubert. But the main problem comes from academic composers who are into strange ideas, alien to and divorced from tradition. If more contemporary composers are like Kevin Puts , Alma Deutscher… things will change positively for music in the traditional sense.
@TM-iv6re
September 14, 2025 at 7:26 am
Perfect creation for the modern society of social media consumers unable to concentrate on anything longer than a few seconds.
@JoseJavierSuarezI
September 14, 2025 at 8:29 am
Sencillamente una Preciosa Obra de Arte Musical. Muchas Gracias.
@jdub6153
September 14, 2025 at 9:25 am
How about kids simply seeing craftspeople working their craft.. thoughtful musicians relying on effort and practice and no sound boards ..
@user-pi5lx8dm6k
September 14, 2025 at 10:29 am
Didn’t realize classical music went all the way back to over 100 years ago!
@charangosurf
September 14, 2025 at 11:14 am
Wonderful presentation and lecture! Looking forward to hearing Joshua live in London January 26
@AbigailPoirier
September 14, 2025 at 11:26 am
When he said that yes, people are still writing beautiful music, I was very much hoping he’d mention Alma Deutscher. She writes wonderful melodies and speaks in defense of beautiful music. Definitely worth checking out!
@riversun12
September 14, 2025 at 12:22 pm
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@razor2k911
September 14, 2025 at 1:52 pm
❤ 🎶🎵
@learningideas
September 14, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Very frustrating there are no full recordings of Earth, it sounds amazing. Can’t wait for him to record it.
@JoseSantos-rp5hi
September 14, 2025 at 6:18 pm
And there went Haydn … ! What the heck ?!?
@albertdynasty31
September 14, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Go！ Go！ Classical Music Never Die !
@agustandany5652
September 14, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Wow ❤❤❤
@innerrise.official
September 14, 2025 at 7:43 pm
A crucial reminder that music education teaches us so much more than just notes. The finale with the youth orchestra was magical.
@gulnaramashurova4003
September 14, 2025 at 8:12 pm
Absolutely loved it! ❤
@wanchiz
September 14, 2025 at 10:43 pm
oh yes his iconic summer! this exactly piece I why I fall in love with him
@hatilee6638
September 14, 2025 at 10:46 pm
Joshua. Bel l. Teaches us how to really appreciate classical music. Thank you all.
@LoveJoyPeace378
September 14, 2025 at 11:02 pm
What a glorious presentation of a wonderful part of human existence!!!❤🎉
@nephthyswolfe7835
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 am
More important than ever ❤❤❤
@cinemanuggets24
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 am
The meta thing about this talk is that he’s making a case for Ted talks as well
@khemmakimbo6177
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 am
10:52 🙏💐❤️❤️❤️💐🙏
@Zechikyou
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 am
Good try!
@minafirouzitabar6621
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 am
👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@susmitachakladar6429
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 am
❤❤❤❤❤❤
@g.p.kellermann2100
September 15, 2025 at 7:09 am
Brilliant!!!!!
@ninamerchant7991
September 15, 2025 at 8:10 am
So heartwarming!! Music is divine ❤
@s1nd3r3llee
September 15, 2025 at 9:31 am
Beautiful, informative, spiritual, sublime. Where has this been? Ahhh. Thank you Joshua Bell. And TED.
@Taosravenfan
September 15, 2025 at 10:43 am
Bravo
@thomassiromoni7080
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 am
May God bless you abundantly and make your wish to have an orchestra in every town … city or even village 🎶💥🎻 as today most youths are only interested in the guitar 🎸…. If Fr Mathison had not sent a violin 🎻when I was 10 years old with the best student Mr Subroto Pramanik to teach me only for 2 years….. I don’t think I would have loved music and played my violin wherever I could…. I would not have got the desire to teach myself other instruments including the Pipe organs. So every child should get a chance to learn the violin 🎻. All may not learn…. but the music will grow up and stay alive and blessed 💥🎻🎶👍
@beatesetzer2441
September 15, 2025 at 12:06 pm
I couldn’t sleep after listening to beethoven 5th live. And my husband just asked me if the dog is weeping and howling when Bach excerpt after Peter betrayed Jesus was played
@ns7837
September 15, 2025 at 1:17 pm
What a wonderful presentation by the world’s most eminent violinist, Maestro Joshua Bell ! 🎻👏🌹
@michaelbruckner6364
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 pm
outstandingly good- what a lovely essay in sound of the value and beauty of classical music. Thank you.
@eyeglassesstringmusic
September 15, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Meeting Joshua Bell shocked me. And it had nothing to do with his playing…
In 2020, I played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with him at the start of the pandemic. What struck me most wasn’t his star power—it was how he organized charity concerts for frontline workers and patients, using music as a force for healing.
Even with his fame, he’s deeply human. That inspired me, as a classically trained cellist and med student in NYC, to bring my cello into hospitals—performing for patients, families, and staff.
Since then, I’ve played Madison Square Garden for the Knicks and Radio City Music Hall… but I’ll never stop performing in hospitals, parks, and the streets. Because, as Josh says, music should be heard everywhere 🎻