TEDxBoston - Benjamin Zander and the YOA - 7/28/09

Finale: Creating Hemispheric Unity through the Arts. Benjamin Zander conducts the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. How bringing together young, energetic musicians in the pursuit of excellence and the celebration of cultural diversity can serve as a powerful model for creating unity and catalyzing social change.
Presented at the 1st TEDxBoston on July 28, 2009 (http://tedxboston.org).
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[kleineschutter]

whahaha! business people and dancing ;)

[NitroAndDeathMetal]

@giorgioglez LULSTERZ

[Paluz]

simplemente Geniales!

[WimWintersMusician]

@Tokkemon , no, it is the 8th note which is the fastet basic note value, and this an important factor, in relationship to the bar for the tempo choice.

Your idea of Beethoven missing our modern "possibilities" is not to be historically documented. Unless you know sources I don't...

And BTW: If a composer chooses an eight note as fastest note value, it means that the audience should hear eight notes, and not 16th or 32th.

[Tokkemon]

@WimWintersMusician The 8th note isn't the basic note value in this piece, the half note is. It would have been more appropriate for Beethoven to have written it in a time signature of 1/2 but that was too far out there for the time. It is essentially one beat to a bar, always.

[giorgioglez]

how many FedEx trucks appear in this vid?????

[betarey]

@WimWintersMusician

Far more dangerous (or at least foolish) to be so presumptuous of his intentions. He said it was what he *thought* it might have been intended to sound like, you may also have missed his use of "our interpretation" several times throughout. He's simply confident in his view, which is why, you know, he's there. A true danger? Rigid and inflexible thought. Kudos to the alpha geeks for finally getting of their asses and dancing at the end there.

[WimWintersMusician]

It is very dangerous to say that one knows how something of the past sounded. What I do have is the score, in which Mr Zander was so surprised to discover the metr. mark. Indeed it is surprising, because one should not read too much of old sources to see that the suggested speed does not match the notation. If Beeth.would have wanted this incredible speed, why would he have choosen the 8th note as basic note value? The 8th note does not stand for speed, but far gravity.

It's double to fast...

[nevertheless123]

Beautiful. Only Zander has the guts to analyze complex music in front of any audience!!

[rahdezs]

It was a very very fun experience to play in this concert!