Patty from oboeinsight inspired me to blog the video auditions for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra–she’s doing the same thing with the oboe videos. Here we go with a 3rd movement Dittersdorf rendition:
Miranda Sykes playing double bass for Show Of Hands on the Radio 2 stage at Cambridge.
It doesn’t take much to keep me entertained these days. The extremely fun app I used to warp my picture is called Face Melter and is a sure way to keep non-iPhone friends endlessly entertained. This is a good representation of how I often feel after a long day...
Here’s a great video of fellow International Society of Bassists board member Thierry Barbé playing Per Questa Bella Mano with bass vocalist Ugo Rabec and the Opera de Paris Orchestra:
You know, the more I poke around the YouTube Symphony channel, the more I like the idea. The world’s first internet symphony really is a cool idea, and it’s indicative of things to come for our art form. Is it gimmicky? Sure–but that’s not the...
