Do you know the conductor of the state symphony orchestra? No.

Right now, here on our stage, the magnificent orchestra of American composerconductor Ray Block.

Orchestral Harp

Orchestra Hit

And where's the orchestration?

A brass band is marching along the street.

they don't play brass bands for cattlemen.

He had a little band... kind of a nonrecording orchestra.

I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic.

I never heard the orchestra in better form.

Tremolo Strings

Pizzicato Strings

I'm already holding down the orchestra. Maybe the key's too low.

String Ensemble 1

String Ensemble 2

Less strings.

All of a sudden, the strings

Herr Kapellmeister!

I was playing nice. I had to write the orchestra bits, right?

There is a full blown orchestra living inside the building.

Synth Strings 1

Synth Strings 2

And this is a six year old child composing a piece of music for a 32 piece orchestra.

But let's move on to a piece where clearly I'm behaving myself, and that is my Concerto for Orchestra.

Sister Celestine teaches music and conducts the band.

That's for bandleaders.

But I'm thinking of orchestrating it... and putting it into an opera I'm working on.

The mighty call of the orchestra, bursting like a musical storm, crashed through walls and roofs and spread through the neighborhood.

Too bad they don't have a brass band for a good cattle tally.

He's conducting Mozart.

It's a whole orchestra of about 100 instruments, all designed for anybody to play using natural skill.

And the architect is really, he moves into the position of being an orchestrator of all of these processes.

People in my orchestra came up to me and said, Ben, what happened? That's what happened.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound.

One of a kind R B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra's worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, Fly Baby.

I don't want so many long bows.

So El Sistema in Venezuela uses a violin as a technology of learning.

I do. He comes here now and then as guest conductor of our own hospital band.

Last year it actually conducted the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra for the holiday concert.

Then the U.N. Jazz Orchestra dropped by and we recorded them and got nominated for a second Grammy back to back.

They opened their scores, the conductor gave the downbeat, and boom, they launched into the Kyrie from the Requiem by Mozart.

You say you've written a string quartet and a piano concerto.

And I have to say, many of them now in the professional orchestras throughout the world.

He became the conductor of Venezuela's junior orchestras, and today conducts the world's greatest orchestras.

And then I started conducting, and I ended up doing my master's degree at the Juilliard School.