What are you watching on YouTube now?

[Megan]

Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhBr1T-LHc&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

That is an amazing piece Peter, I enjoyed listening.

Can we have a 'Like' button like they have on facebook?

[Decrepit Poster]

I've not frequented this forum in some time. Nor have I done much YouTube viewing in over a year...until recently. By sheer happenstance the two 'music videos' I most recently watched were works of the master...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSgFkNJTx8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfjD-DQ5REk[/YOUTUBE]

...and one by a contemporary...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g12j7yK3ZPk&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

Judged by its YouTube representation, this piece pretty much sings itself. There are any number of other clips I could have embedded, all worthy in their various ways, some much more 'modern' with true 'video'. But this is the one I keep coming back to, for finesse and subtlety.

-Decrepit-

[Quijote]

Haven't quite worked out the technique here (a neanderthal writes), but I hope this was not Chris (!!!!!!) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DBAoWr-imY

[Sorrano]

Haven't quite worked out the technique here (a neanderthal writes), but I hope this was not Chris (!!!!!!) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DBAoWr-imY

Did you read the comments below that? With regards to accidentally hitting a button, such as a retuning button, I've accidentally hit preset buttons while playing with rather disruptive results, as well. It does wake the congregation up, too!

Nice post, Philip, I really got a kick out of that!

[Quijote]

You liked that, did you? Try this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4ow...eature=related

[Quijote]

This is more worrying :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzsP...eature=related

[Preston]

You liked that, did you? Try this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4ow...eature=related

That is some crack, indeed! hehe

Philip, to use the YT feature click the YT button and you will see something like this:
[YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]

Then paste the YT link between these ][.

Such as:

[YOUTUBE]insertyoutubelinkhere[YOUTUBE]

And voila:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4owK3Wvkk&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

[Preston]

Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine

I did enjoy that. A couple of things come to my mind, among others.

One, the orchestra can be used for such peaceful and enjoyable and powerful, in a beautiful sense, music and it can be used for such untamed strength and darker power. It is a very diverse tool. I may be wrong though, for a large part, though not the wholly by any means, the musicians of the Romantic Era really wrote a lot of strong and powerful music? As though, it seemed to be a focus for them - death, tragedy, strength, power, etc. They wrote a lot of peaceful music also, I know that, it just seems there was really an emphasis on writing such brute strength and darker themes? Is that correct?

Second, the images were in the video were moving. Nature really is something special. Something sacred. All the terror in the world, and then there is the beauty of the natural world and world of life, natural life - strange that?

[Sorrano]

This is more worrying :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzsP...eature=related

This one reminded me of a live performance of Beethoven's 8th Symphony I attended, in which the trumpet came in slightly early on that fanfarish minuet. Aside from that goof the concert turned out quite good, but it did raise some eyebrows!

[Sorrano]

You liked that, did you? Try this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4ow...eature=related

I don't think this could have been done better even by Peter Schickele of PDQ Bach fame.

[Sorrano]

I hesitate to post this, but hopefully someone will enjoy it:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUsbtUrXHk[/YOUTUBE]

[Chris]

It's just like being back in my high school orchestra!

[Quijote]

Chris, did you not check out the Messiah You Tube extract I posted above? Come clean now, was it you? If so, I'll send you a cheque immediately !!!!!
And if so, I hereby officially engage your organ services at my funeral. Hah!

[Quijote]

I was going to engage Sorrano for my funeral, but he'd try to upstage the proceedings by playing some Ligeti. I don't want any tears at my funeral.

[Quijote]

I hesitate to post this, but hopefully someone will enjoy it: [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUsbtUrXHk[/YOUTUBE]

That is a seriously evil performance. Loved it! Perhaps I should copy it to the "Teacher's Corner" thread where we could consider "How to improve school ensembles for budding conductors." I mean, where would you even start?
First off : the "Kalashnikov approach".