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

Orchestral Harp

Orchestra Hit

And where's the orchestration?

I don't want so many long bows.

A brass band is marching along the street.

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

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

String Ensemble 1

String Ensemble 2

Less strings.

All of a sudden, the strings

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

Guitar Fret Noise

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.

The second string is a melody string, which is played with a wooden keyboard tuned like a piano.

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.

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

By playing the string, the string vibrates and produces a sound wave.

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.

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

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

The performer is in the worst possible position for the actual sound, because they're hearing the contact of the stick on the drum, or the mallet on the bit of wood, or the bow on the string, etc., or the breath that's creating the sound from wind and brass.

Strains of sweet balalaika soft and low

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

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

(Chiming)

Bells

Tolling Continues

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

The hurdy gurdy has been used, historically, through the centuries in mostly dance music because of the uniqueness of the melody combined with the acoustic boombox here.

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

And the bells.