Shad yoyo ma came to studio q and greeted me with a huge hug. That was before we even spoke. Thats just the sort of man that he is. On top of being one of the most celebrated musicians in all of classical music, hes just known as a warm and humble man. Youre gonna see that in our conversation all about this latest albums from the arc of life, which was a collaboration with his friend, the pianist kathryn stott. Heres yoyo ma in studio q. And i know im talking to a fellow musician. , song shad you are talking to a fellow musician. And this is a concept album, which i love. Yoyo yeah. Well, you know, its so funny, because im, um, im about to enter into my 60th year. Um, you know, so what happens when youre 60 . Um, i dont know. I mean, i thought about it and kathy and i thought about it and said, now, weve always wanted to do an album of pieces that we really loved. Shad mm hmm. Yoyo but we felt that was. So for years, wed sort of, like, put that on hold and say, well, you know, one day were gonna do Something Like this. And, um, and it wasnt until we thought about the fact that weve been working together and been friends for over 30 years and that, thats a pretty long period of time. Shad mm hmm. Yoyo and, um, and, you know, a lot of adventures, a lot of, uh, going through stages in life together. And so we thought, you know, what about if we actually did something on, you know, like shakespeares seven stages of life. And, and, so, so the idea of, uh, you know, and then i thought of stevie wonders, you know, songs shad songs in the key of life. in the key of life. And so, so, it turned into, you know, this album. In life and the emotions of a time in life . Yoyo uh, and it also codes memory. So it can code the present moment i feel this. It can also code memory, this is, it could kind of unleash, you know, torrential amounts of, you know, of memories. When you kind of pinpoint something, its kind of like you press the button and then suddenly, uh, you shad flooded back. Yoyo yeah, you can smell you grandmothers pie, you know . Shad mm. Yoyo and you hear a piece of music and suddenly it unlocks your olfactory system, you know, your, your. So i think it actually, uh, reaches the brain at, in different ways. Shad mm. Yoyo uh, it, i think it also, um, it penetrates your subconscious mind. To be touched by music. Yoyo mm hmm. Shad we let it in on that level. That we dont necessarily do with language or, you know, any of the things we encounter, other things we encounter on a daytoday basis. Theres something transcendent in music, even in western, rational, you know, society, we allow ourselves to be touched by um, theres one piece in there. Thats, thats from tquartet to the end of timthe louange a leternite de jesus. M. And it was written by a french composer, olivier messiaen, who, uh, wrote this piece while he was in a prison camp in, during wwii. And in this, uh, large prison camp there were four musicians. There was a clarinetist, a viol a cellist, and himself as pianist, he was also an organist. And he wrote this piece. It was performed in the dead of, winter, middle of january. And i really wanted to include this piece because it shows that the kind of like the indestructibility of the human spirit even under the worst conditions. Uh, that he was able to create music thats all about infinite love, divine love. Uh, you know, the idea of a sky filled with 10,000 rainbows, you know . Shad in the worst circumstances. Yoyo birds chirping, you know. In january. And its, its, its kind of, uh, astounding but its a reminder that, that as we go through some fearful times today, uh, and its very easy to be pessimistic. Very easy, in fact its, can be realistic to be pessimistic. But it also says no, no, there are actually people who ceaselessly try, uh, to advance things even in the harshest of circumstances. You have to imagine those stages. Rough and there are stages youe have to imagine. How did you select those pieces . Yoyo um, well, dont forget, im much older than you. [both laugh] th yoyo i would say almost twice as old as you are. Um, which, which means that, you know, and im sure even at your age, youve experienced loss. Youve experienced, uh, betrayal. Youve experienced, uh, you know, uh, really reflective moments and probably with an intense life you know, like what we go through. You almost lead multiple lives. You. I feel ive lived like four or five lives, because it gets so compacted. It gets so intensified. And, and, um, and so the know, tion is, what, whats the value that you can extract from that intensity . Ques you know, how can you make sense of it . Um, and so, the ideas of loss and, you know, andulness, or, you know, sticking to the moment and appreciating, being f grateful is a big thing. Shad i think thats as good a note to end on as any. An absolute pleasure. Thank you. Ythank you so much, shad. You are good. [theme ] shad coming up on q a performance from ibeyi. But first, paul gross, on his new oyo hyena road. Paul i guess you could say, well, thats a good thing for the film, because it is authentic enough, but its been really disturbing to certain veterans, because of the events, and this really emotional subject for a lot of people, including the soldiers families. [theme] [theme] [explosions] dispatc6, i have contact, over. Second dispatcher 3niner alpha, acknowledged. Dispatcher 66, sigrap, one insurgent appears to be holding an iud. Her 6 stand by. Send it. [explosion] Rossif Sutherland its a ribbon of tarmac five metres wide. Its pathway runs straight through hell. D the farther we go, we more we leave behind. Shad paul gross said he was done with war films after the 2008 wwi epic, passchendaele. An but a recent trip to afghanistan sparked his interest. And now hes back with hyena road, all about the Canadian Armed forces in afghanistan. Paul gross dropped by studio q and we had a great chat all about the complexities of modern war. Heres paul gross in studio q. How ar paul very good, how are you . Shad im doing well. So what drew you back to the battlefield as a storyteller . Paul well, it is true. E you . I really thought id never do another film concerning war, because theyre just so ferociously complicated to do. Shad in what ways are they complicated . Paul theyre really complicated to finance, cause theyre expensive. And theyre very complex and difficult to shoot, and. But it, it, in any ei got invited to go as a group of people to visit the troops. They would assemble a group called team canada, and off wed go. And i was in kandahar for about a week, i guess. Vent, at the big airbase there, kandahar airfield. But i also got out on helicopters and looked at Forward Operating bases. And it, it was absolutely, uh, bewildering. In part because, the environment itself is so, its so amped up and difficult to describe. But ta kind of strange, brutal, almost chaotic poetry. Uh, theres men and women moving in uniform, and machinery, and air is full of noise, and the smell of diesel. Its completely compelling. Shad such a foreign experience from paul mm hmm, yeah. I mean, id been in a lot ofthe really, uh, screwed up places, but ive never been anywhere where an actual war was underway. And at that time, we were starting to talk about pulling out of combat operations. So i thought, well maybe i should just come back with a camera team and photograph it. And so i did, i went back about, i guess about a year, or half a year, or something, later. And wed spent a couple of weeks way out at a Forward Operating base called sperwan ghar. Shad ok. Paul and at that time, i still didnt think i necessarily had a film, i just wanted to collect footage. But we werent carrying a camera package, so at night i would talk to soldiers. And they, they started to tell me stories, and eventually i started to think, eh, there might be something here, becae tales are amazing. And virtually everything in the film is based on those conversations. And all of the characters i met, including the afghan characters that are in the movie, areuse th people i actually met. There is a guy named, a real guy named the cleaner, there really is a ghost. And, uh, and then i started tote this a try. Shad um, read some Great Stories about the inspiration behind passchendaele, but this is a very different kind of war project. Whathow was it different for you dealing with a conflict thats so fresh in peoples minds. Paul i think it was really in a way the writing of it, i sort of, was to pull myself out of it. Writers, youre intertwined inside the story and turning it where you want it go, or where you think it ought to go. And this one, i really didnt do that. I just absorbed all of these stories and then moved them around until i thought they were inind of satisfying order. I think the trickiest part about it is to try to capture what i felt to be so surprising when ik was first there, which really was that it had nothing to do, bore very little relationship to what id been told it was, what we were all t was by successive governments and by the media, which i think, in general, just sort of, presented a very strange picture of it. It was vastly more complicated, vastly more dangerous. Told i and, uh, and it was a place where the conflicting agendas existed almost everywhere. And i felt that tryingi needed to try to figure out a way to put all of those agendas together, so you could, so an audience member could feel this, the very difficult task it is we ask soldiers to do in regions where we understand the underlying problems only, only sort of shad uh, audiences are endlessly fascinated by soldiers lives. Paul mm. Shad why do you think that is . Paul well, i, i think its because they do a job that is, with very few exceptions, there are a few other occupations, obviously similar to this. But its a job where you, when you sign on the dotted line, youre essentially agreeing that youre willing to die on behalf of your country, should it be so horrid. And i think thats something we dont quite. None of us live with that kind ofand i think when you signed on here at cbc, there was no clause that says, i, shad, am willing to die in service of this corporation. Shad yeah, and if my director says, you have to die, yeah, no. Paul yeah, i think its a really, i think thats a hard thing to get into our heads wh it is they do. And i dont think most of us are probably willing to do that. So i think theres, there is a fascination just at the core of somebody whos willing to doat that. And theyre willing to do it on our behalf, not for money, or not for anything else. Theyre doing it for us. Ou screened the film for any of the soldiers that you met over there . Paul yeah, we have. Weve had a lot ofnot a lot. Weve had a few screenings for veterans. Not so much peoplesome peopley that i met over there. But also just vets that i didnt know necessarily, but had come to see it. And the reactions been really encour and in some cases, its been quite alarming, because its, its. I guess you could say, well, thats a good thing for the film, because it is authentic enough, but its been reallyag. Disturbing to certain veterans, because of the events. And i think weve got to, you knowindful. We, as the people who are putting the film out, that this is really emotional subject for a lot of people, including the soldiers families. , be m and make sure they understand that its not, this isnt like a cartoon. Its pretty close. Shad were you surprised a bit by that level of emlity . Paul i was actually, yeah, yeah. It was really, uh, unnerving, you know. General Romeo Dallaire saw it a while ago, and he found it really upsetting. And it took him a while to kinda of pull himself together. He wasnt in afghanistan obviously, but he said, the thing it, its, for most veterans, when they watch it, if theyve experienced really harsh, disturbing conditions, theyll have another film running while theyre watching yours, and its the film of all of the things that theyve seen an shad how has making this film changed you . Think, you know, i used to maybe not Pay Attention to the military solution arguments. And im not sure they exist any longer, and i think its because of that, of being there in afghanistan. I think this is really ferociously complicated terrain, and not necessarily stuff that can get solved at the end of a tank barrel. Shad thats heavy. Thank you h for your time and congrats on the film. Paul thank you very much. Ibeyi come to your river i will come to your river so ibeyi performs their hit, river, live in studio q. Ibeyi come to your river how fast are allegra® gelcaps . Were going out in an hour. Fast. Allegra® relieves your worst allergy symptoms two times faster than claritin®. Allegra® gelcaps. Not just fast. Allegra® fast. Proteact® advanced against plaque. Wihelps prevent plaque and gingivitis, kills 99 of bacteria for a 12 hour shield of protection. Act® advanced. I already feel like were the most conne sure i offer multicar, safe driver, and so many other discounts that people think im a big deal. And boy, are they right. 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Lauren casey is standing by with the latest for us, lauren . Thanks, natasha, good news, bad news, the good news is its a coldest of the cold thats also the bad news, the we still have to get through it overnight freeze warning in effect for the entire area including the city of philadelphia. Temperatures will be plum meting. Storm scan 3 quiet conditions after clouds and even reports of a few flakes in the Lehigh Valley and a couple of reports of snow pellets as well. Little bit closer to the city, right now, quiet conditions, and temperatures that are dropping, getting look at our Neighborhood Network trying to hold on to 40s in cape may, 39 degrees in camden, philadelphia, were at 40, already well down into the 20 in mount poconos, and nearing in freezing mark in allentown and in your first forecast, we will be waking up to 34 degrees in philadelphia, thats just five degrees shy of our record low temperature setback in the 1970s. Nice element, light wind be we dont deal too much with the windchill impact. Clear sky conditions, nice and sunny into the lunch hour, temperatures struggling only in the low 40s, highs will still be cool tomorrow, well talk about that plus a nice big warmup in store coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. Slithering scare meantime on septa, a snake lets on a bus causing quite a fuss also an evacuation. Reporter it was a har rowing or deal for passengers on route 52 . She got under thet