***NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT. I INCLUDED ONLY THE PART FEATURING JOSH. ALSO, WHILE I HAVE THE PROGRAM ON VIDEOTAPE, I DIDN'T TRANSCRIBE THIS, SO I CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS ACCURACY.

BROOKE ALEXANDER, HOST: Two young Americans are adding a new date to their global concert tour schedule, the Grammy Awards. Hillary Hahn and Joshua Bell have earned the respect of their elders by displaying technique, talent and sensitivity beyond their years. They are stamping youth on the Recording Academy's classical categories.
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Hilary Hahn, "Hilary Hahn Plays Bach"
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HILARY HAHN: There's music that's been written for the violin for centuries and that's one great thing about classical music, it goes back really far and you can hear music from all different eras that still applies to people today and that people can still enjoy.
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, "Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61"
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JOSHUA BELL: The Beethoven Concerto, it's supposed to transport the audience to another place, another time, another, you know, a whole other world. So that's where I am and I guess when I close my eyes, I'm a little, I guess I can listen better and I can feel like I'm in that world. But certainly I'm not in my own world. I'm also with the also with the orchestra listening to everything they're doing and we're making music together.
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, "Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61"
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HAHN: A musician's relationship with their instrument is kind of like the relationship between very close friends.
BELL: I guess you might say this is my partner, considering I spend more time with this than any single person.
HAHN: If you spend enough time with something you like or someone you like, you get to know it very well and find out things about it that you really like that other people might not know about.
BELL: This violin was made in 1732 by Antonio Stradivarius, who is the biggest name in violin making.
HAHN: This violin was made in 1864 by Jean Baptiste Villaume in Paris and whenever I look at other Villaumes, I can see the same antiquating marks on all of them. So they really are works of art and they all sound very different, as well.
BELL: It's a work of art, really, and there are very few in the world and I'm very lucky to have it. It has an incredible history, being played by the great Paganini in the 19th century and Joachim, the guy who Brahms wrote his violin concerto for and many people. So it's pretty awesome to be able to play it and it really does make a difference to have a great instrument, fortunately, considering I'm going to spend the rest of my life paying for it.
HAHN: There are so many different kinds of music in the world, but in a way all music is simply music and it doesn't really matter what style it is or what genre.
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Joshua Bell, "Short Trip Home"
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BELL: I don't like to say that I ever really played bluegrass or tried to be a bluegrass violinist because if that was the case, I really did fail, because I'll never be a bluegrass violinist and I told Edgar Meyer, who wrote for me on this project, not to make me a bluegrass violinist, but to be influenced by the genre. And so I kind of, hopefully we took the violin kind of in a different direction, but I'm definitely influenced by the bluegrass.
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Joshua Bell, "Short Trip Home"
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BELL: I just follow the music that interests me and I don't put the barriers so much and these boundaries that are often slapped on music, you know, between classical and I've done bluegrass now and jazz. I mean classical is such a mixture of so many kinds of music anyway.
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Hilary Hahn, "Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61"
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HAHN: A lot of classical music was drawn from the popular culture of the time. Mozart wrote in barrooms songs to his music. People like Bartok used folk melodies from their native country in their music. And composers nowadays are using elements of rock and roll and other types of music in their classical compositions.
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, "Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61"
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BELL: I play the music for many reasons. I play for myself because I just love it so much. And then when, occasionally you get somebody in the audience who comes back stage and says they were inspired by what I did or it moved them, you know? When that happens, it's just an incredible feeling. So I like being in the position where I can actually move somebody, somebody who's listening to my music. It really makes it really worth it to me.
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, "Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61"
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