BELIEVE IT!
ORCHESTRA PLAYS BEETHOVEN NINTH SYMPHONY FROM THEIR HOMES – TOGETHER!
By Norman Lebrecht
The Rotterdam Philharmonic teamed up with a Dutch healthcare provider to film the finale of Beethoven’s 9th with all the musicians playing their parts by video from their homes.
It’s an extraordinary achievement, overwhelming in the final minutes.
If ever a video deserved to go viral, this is it.
Share like crazy, please.
Isn’t that amazing? Pass it along!
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF PIE 
CHAIN OF FOOLS – ARETHA FRANKLIN 
MUSIC TO EAT DESSERT BY 
MUSIC TO DINE BY 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I’ll take a dose of classical music anytime but this format is extraordinary. Thanks for sharing.
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It was — for once — a really great way to use our technology. So often it’s just a waste of time, but this was wonderful 🙂
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Wonderful! I’m sure we’ll hear more video-conferenced music coming out in the next few weeks (or months), but this is a great start.
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I was impressed that technologically we could make it happen and the musicians did it without a conductor!
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I’m not too surprised about the technology – I have seen virtual bands before, though not as complex. Conductor is something different, unless they had a virtual metronome or something they could see on their screens.
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I sure someone had to edit the pieces together. A really good audio engineer was somewhere in there.
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From What I understand there was no editing. The musicians connected on Skype or WhatsApp? monitored each other and played just as they would if in the hall.., together.
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Let me just say that because, in modern video and digital audio, a time code is being added in the data layer of each sample simultaneously, and it can be synced very easily with no need for separate takes or overdubbing. All they had to do was play together.
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This is from 2015, and a bit different musically, but people all over the world… https://youtu.be/MHo1fNnXFVU
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I definitely shared. We all can use this kind of uplifting gratitude piece to make things a bit easier as we wait. Thank you!! ❤
http://sparksfromacombustiblemind.com/2020/03/24/a-brief-musical-interlude/
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And they did it WITHOUT a conductor. This isn’t an easy piece of music and for that many instruments to manage to play together in separate places are amazing. My musician friend in Arizona sent it to me and a bunch of other people. He’s the last person in my world who thinks of me as a musician, even though I more or less dropped off the musical map many years ago. I find it touching. And I LOVED that piece. I’m enormously fond of ALL Beethoven symphonies anyway, the ninth and the sixth being particular favorites.
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I DO think of you as a musician.., and photographer.., and writer etc., etc. All of those things
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Yes, this is amazing. Love it – and found other (similar) performances which YT ‘kindly’ suggested right after…. Good call! Thank You.
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A musician friend in Arizona sent it to me, so I passed it to you. Music LIVES 🙂
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🙂
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Amazing that technology allows this!
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And without, as far as I could tell, any conductor.
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If you need further mind blowing tech, find a copy of “Unforgettable” a recording by Natalie Cole where she sings a duet with her father, Nat King Cole, many years after his death. In this example you’d think they were in the studio together.., but It ain’t so. We really don’t know what real anymore?
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“What’s real” so I made a typo.., so?
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Oh my gosh–so wonderful!!
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No conductor, either! And not an easy piece of music.
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…And he couldn’t even hear it after he finished it as his deafness was, by then, pretty complete. Theory is that he might have been able to “feel” it through external vibrations.., but hey, the guy wrote it in his head.., how cool is that?
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He almost committed suicide before he discovered he could “hear” the music in his head.
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i love this so much!
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It’s Beethoven’s 9th. What’s not to love?
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