You stimulate it it produces a symphony.

But it's not just a symphony of perception.

It's a symphony of your universe, your reality.

It's larger than some of the other symphony halls.

What we're learning now, it's almost like a symphony.

And he said something like, Me ... boy ... symphony ... Beethoven.

The symphony Isaac Stern, the concerto, I heard it.

And of course, the New World Symphony led to the YouTube Symphony and projects on the internet that reach out to musicians and audiences all over the world.

So many of you know that that's Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Do you know the concert schedule of London Symphony Orchestra?

I want you just for a second to experience this amazing human symphony.

And you have CDs in your car, and you go to the symphony.

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

And we're going to play just the very tail end of this symphony now.

He mentioned four great world orchestras, and the fifth one was Venezuela's Youth Symphony Orchestra.

This image here is created from a snippet of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony playing through a cymatic device.

So given the prince loved his music, Haydn thought he'd write a symphony to make the point.

The perception, the symphony that you create is going to be corrupted, and you will have symptoms of disease.

You may be born lucky, where you know how to master your neocortical column, and you can play a fantastic symphony.

That's what drives my interest in projects like the TV series Keeping Score with the San Francisco Symphony that looks at the backstories of music, and working with the young musicians at the New World Symphony on projects that explore the potential of the new performing arts centers for both entertainment and education.

He was the conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and he's an unbeatable example for young musicians in Latin America and the world.

This is Symphony Space on 90th Street and Broadway, and the type is interwoven into the stainless steel and backlit with fiber optics.

There is a book out in the bookstore it's called Symphony In Steel, and it's about the stuff that's hidden under the skin of the Disney Center.

They are highly reactive, and they are super plastic, and so the autists are probably capable of building and learning a symphony which is unthinkable for us.

And then he read aloud just a few weeks ago to 500 people at Symphony Space, at a benefit for 826 New York. So he's there every day.

And it turned out the symphony could be used for more complex issues, like gripping ones of culture, such as nationalism or quest for freedom or the frontiers of sensuality.

In San Francisco, for example, the Symphony runs a 23 million privately funded project called Keeping Score that includes a national public television series, radio shows, interactive music learning, and school music programs.

Rory Jeffes, general manager of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, believes that the Sydney Opera House will make a turnaround via this renovation and become one of the world's concerts with the best sound effects.

That means you go to a rock concert or a symphony, and the guy in the front row gets the same level as the guy in the back row, now, all of a sudden.

They are paying tribute to the millions of soldiers and civilians who perished. Two days ago in this Hall, we paid that tribute through the wonderful music of the Leningrad Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich.

And what we're learning now is that you can't listen to a five billion year long symphony, get to today and say, Stop! We want tomorrow's note to be the same as it was today.

You have to work the phones, cajole world leaders to do this or that. It is a symphony often not a very harmonious one of small steps that you hope will lead to something greater.

It also should be reassuring to Europeans who are concerned that greater reliance on private money necessarily means conservative programming that the San Francisco Symphony has one of the most adventuresome repertoires in the US.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.

One of them is in elite art since the 1930s say, the kinds of works performed by major symphony orchestras, where most of the repertory is before 1930, or the works shown in major galleries and prestigious museums.

A benign example is Adidas s sponsorship of tennis tournaments. A malign example is Philip Morris s donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.

Serious book stores are losing their franchise, nonprofit theaters are surviving primarily by commercializing their repertory, symphony orchestras are diluting their programs, public television is increasing its dependence on reruns of British sitcoms, classical radio stations are dwindling, museums are resorting to blockbuster shows, dance is dying.

Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can em hear em a symphony of color and yes, even listen to faces and paintings.

And we're all acutely aware what's it going to mean in the future when we ask someone to pay a hundred dollars for a symphony, opera or ballet ticket, when that cultural consumer is used to downloading on the internet 24 hours a day for 99 cents a song or for free?

But US experience shows that getting artistic leaders like orchestra music directors to participate in fundraising need not be bad for the artistic side of the job. Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco, for example, has combined effective fundraising and artistic leadership to propel the San Francisco Symphony to the top rank of US orchestras.

Some conductors, not wanting to carry a tin cup as they wave their batons, have rejected important posts in the US for this reason, feeling that it would interfere with their art. Daniel Barenboim is rumored to have left the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in part because he objected to the fundraising demands that were being made of him.