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

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

There is a full blown orchestra living inside the building.

I never heard the orchestra in better form.

Orchestral Harp

Orchestra Hit

And where's the orchestration?

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

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

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

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

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

A brass band is marching along the street.

they don't play brass bands for cattlemen.

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

I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic.

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

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

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.

What I got was potted palms seven hours of every day on a damn golf course... and a threepiece orchestra playing Merrie England.

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.

And we started by making instruments for some of the world's greatest performers we call these hyperinstruments for Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Prince, orchestras, rock bands. Instruments where they're all kinds of sensors built right into the instrument, so the instrument knows how it's being played.

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

I don't want so many long bows.

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

Got the whole brass band out.

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.

David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, Flowers. He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

It's also the only instrument that uses this kind of technique.

And rather than go into statistics and trends, and tell you about all the orchestras that are closing, and the record companies that are folding, I thought we should do an experiment tonight an experiment.

I'm going to join the school orchestra.

He is a boy from a parish in Caracas who passionately attended to his double bass lessons at the San Agustin's Junior Orchestra.

Band

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