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Beautiful…
Goose bumps!
“Goose bumps!” Amen.
If you can watch this and not smile I don’t want to know you.
I wonder why we don’t get cool flash mobs like that around here…
The only flash mobs we get are people blocking traffic for protests and looters. Both should be ran over or shot.
“Bolero” — why does it *always* have to be “Bolero”….
Because it is an amazing piece of music! :3
Because it’s the perfect type of piece for something like this. Most orchestral pieces would require everyone to be there at once, and this piece, instead, allowed a much more organic flow to the orchestra’s entrance. There are only a handful of pieces that would allow for that, and “Bolero” is probably the most accessible of the options available.
Because it doesn’t require a full orchestra right at the outset. The musicians can just sort of trickle in, so it’s a great piece for this kind of thing.
Ha, that is in Copenhagen.
…. and damn, I missed it. I am there two times a day.
Cool.
Another flash mob in the same central station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyHbRBIPf4
On a scale from 1 to 10, that’s awesome.
For this situation, Bolero is perfect, even tempo, starts of very simply and then slowly builds in instrumentation. any other song, you would have needed the whole orchestra there at the start, which would be a bit more obvious
Well, Rhapsody in Blue would divert everyone’s attention and allow the rest of the orchestra to sneak in while they were trying to locate the clarinet.
Ravel’s “Bolero” was the perfect music for this, but I don’t believe for one minute that this was a bunch of strangers organized over the ‘net. I’m pretty sure they were all in the same orchestra together… they are just too good to be random strangers. Still, awesome experience for passers-by.
If you watched through to the end credits it’s the Sjællands Symfoniorkester / Copenhagen Phil. So yes, they were/are all in the same orchestra.
But many choreographed flash mobs are not just a random chance meeting of people.
They aren’t strangers who met over the net.
at the end of the video it says “Sjællands symfoniorkester”. They play like, everywhere in denmark
How did the timpani get there?
My thought exactly. ‘Twas a bit more obvious than someone carrying a flute.
That was the thought I had about the harp.
Who carried that lady’s harp in here?
i rmb this from Digimon first season..
That made me cry. Sometimes you forget how much beauty there can be in the world.
I began crying to. I feel like I have been really bored by everything in the world and this was a reminder of how amazing and beautiful life can be.
So glad I wasn’t the only one with tears welling up in my eyes.
I cried too. It’s been too long since I’ve been moved to tears by a thing of beauty.
The poor lady at the end wanted them to keep playing
That’s really awesome. In the US, punks who tag senseless murals like some dime store Banksy rip off is the most clever it gets around here.
ORLY?
Stuff white people do.
6 people were late for their train
Danish flash mob=entertaining and fun. American flash mob=police, looting, possible death
The fact that they all had to setup instruments and music stands is a big fail. Totally defeats the purpose of a “flash” mob.
This is not an impossible piece of music. To do it right, you should have memorized your parts.
As a musician, I’d like to thank them for furthering the “tardy musician” stereotype.
Come on. It’s not “a big fail”, I don’t think it’s a fail at all.
They got the stands there and away from there very quickly. They anyway had to carry their instruments and for a symphony orchestra sheet music is almost as important at the instruments themselves.
I’ll admit that I don’t have personal experience, but I think that by the time any great orchestra is ready to perform to public like this, they have practiced enough that they could play it by ear if they wanted to.
I think Tim is really Tina…and Tina is apparently on the rag…
Please for to show us how it’s done, oh expert one. Can’t be that hard to organise from what you say.
They couldn’t have done this without music? Bolero isn’t that hard to memorize…
Yeah but without music it might sound a bit lame…
Haha ok I wasn’t the only one who thought that.
No, but professional orchestras rehearse with notes that they make in their music, and keeping track of all the notes (i.e., changes and comments on sections of music), even in one rehearsal, is nearly impossible. If you notice, a professional orchestra almost never performs sans music. When one person performs alone, memorization is plausible, but the coordination required and notes involved usually means that memorization of a particular performance is much more difficult.
give him a 5$ Bill
Love.
Bonjourno PRINCEPESSSA!!!!
God, I love my country.
We Danes rule.
As long as there are no brown people in the orchestra, perhaps.
THIS^
Amazing, I wish more stuff like this happened everywhere, makes the world a more bearable place to live in
Featuring Gilligan on timpani
hey gilligan get your ass back on that island
This was awesome and amazingly orchestrated. And it was a flash mob, even if they knew each other, because 1)it was in an unexpected place, and 2)not every musician was there to start, because the piece builds.
OMGIMISSPLAYINGFRENCHHORN
/former band nerdiness
*As an orchestral musician*…
Since Bolero is a simple piece and so popular, most of them have probably played it before this event at least a few times, and it wouldn’t require a lot of group rehearsal for this level of a professional group… memorization would have been an at-home individual effort and a huge time investment.
Stunning, thank you musicians for the smile
absolutly perfect….
-1 for skipping the trombone solo.
Helt fantastisk. Gid jeg havde kunnet være tilstede for at opleve det direkt!
that was just epic…period. sure it was staged…but only the musicians knew that, not the public. WIN.
Who said Classical music doesn’t rock..