Thomas Hampson on classical music in digital media

[vogelius]

This interview introduced me to the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall - an amazing resource for classical music afficionados! Highly recommended!

[hpaulmoon]

My goodness. At 35:46 we get this: "I firmly believe in teaching people how to swim; I don't think damning the ocean is a very good idea. Ever."

Can someone please nominate Thomas Hampson as chief executive of the universe?

But seriously, it gave me chills. This is a brilliant, timely, perfect interview -- and the best I've heard in years about classical music. Total gratitude.

[makerofjam]

This is fantastic. Pretty much everything said here is absolutely spot on. Please do more stuff like this!

[Geakast]

Of course you are creating access points (and new audience) among new generations, and we're going to help you out raising curiosity!

Hugs from Italy, you amazing "Builders"! :) - referring to: "Den Begriff der Bildung"!!! :)

[rossifigaro]

fascinating conversation. i'm a classical music internet addict and am always searching for new sites and live concert presentations. and my biggest frustration is this constant searching - there doesn't seem to be a central source that informs a person as to what's all out there on the web.

[medpiano]

This blows any TED talk out of the water. One might say a half-hour is a long time to watch a YouTube video, but the sheer density of relevant, progressive and insightful commentary on such a wide range of topics musical and technical makes it seem like no time at all. The breadth of this man's knowledge on technical topics given a worldwide concert career is astounding.

[arisargiris]

Thank you so much Mr. Hampson! You spoke the absolute truth in the most wonderful way, and people that watch this video becoming even more interested and thirsty about Classical Music. Thank you!

[greece1992bill]

i really agree with what this man says... i can say that internet gave me ''access'' to classical music and that really changed my life, and i live for the day i'll find some money and listen a huge live classical concert :) i'm sure listening it live is really different :)

[Scalatti]

This is all nice and well and commendable but do we have to sound sooooo affected? The male version of Jessye Norman anyone?

[Marlene55M]

It's funny with the captions turned on.... :-) A 1:1 transcription of what they say, including ah's and uh's and oh's :-)

[Glouryian]

Thank you for the most interesting and informative half an hour I experienced since weeks! Will try to spread to as many people, as possible.

[saly10]

What a great documentary. Cheers Berlin phil :) he reminds of Karajan a bit because of his techie obsessions, but thankfully he doesn't sound as raspy lol. Again thanks :)

[acxeros]

The part where he talks about the one person who only gets 10% of what happens is 100% for them is fantastic! I totally agree! We can't judge people for how much they get out of a performance or piece of art, what they glean from it is theirs and unique to their experience.