DVD95906 Scrapheap Orchestra (and 2011 Prom performance) [BBC4
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DVD95906 Scrapheap Orchestra (and 2011 Prom performance) [BBC4
Here is a fun program and is of some educational value. It culminates in a performance at the 2011 BBC Promenade Concerts (Prom 11 23 July 2011 "The Human Planet")
SCRAPHEAP ORCHESTRA
Is it possible for professional musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra to make beautiful sounds out of garbage? This documentary aims to find out. For the first time ever an entire orchestra of 44 instruments will be built from just scrap. The quest to build an orchestra of instruments out of rubbish is more than just a musical spectacle - in the construction of these instruments we delve into the history of instrument making and the science of music, why different instruments are made the way they are, why some designs have not changed for hundreds of years and why, when played together, the sound of an orchestra is unlike anything else on earth.
Inspirational conductor Charles Hazlewood leads the challenge and charges a group of the UK's top instrument makers with the mission of transforming junk, broken furniture and the contents of roadside skips into an orchestra of instruments.
The BBC Concert Orchestra - a team of virtuoso performers - will put their reputations on the line by using these instruments to stage what they hope will be a flawless performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at the 2011 Proms. But will the scrapheap orchestra pass muster at the mother of all classical musical festivals?
BBC4 11 December 2011 DVD Format 720x576 (16:9) 25fps PAL 384kbps 48.0kHz AC3
3.9GB
Here is a fun program and is of some educational value. It culminates in a performance at the 2011 BBC Promenade Concerts (Prom 11 23 July 2011 "The Human Planet")
SCRAPHEAP ORCHESTRA
Is it possible for professional musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra to make beautiful sounds out of garbage? This documentary aims to find out. For the first time ever an entire orchestra of 44 instruments will be built from just scrap. The quest to build an orchestra of instruments out of rubbish is more than just a musical spectacle - in the construction of these instruments we delve into the history of instrument making and the science of music, why different instruments are made the way they are, why some designs have not changed for hundreds of years and why, when played together, the sound of an orchestra is unlike anything else on earth.
Inspirational conductor Charles Hazlewood leads the challenge and charges a group of the UK's top instrument makers with the mission of transforming junk, broken furniture and the contents of roadside skips into an orchestra of instruments.
The BBC Concert Orchestra - a team of virtuoso performers - will put their reputations on the line by using these instruments to stage what they hope will be a flawless performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at the 2011 Proms. But will the scrapheap orchestra pass muster at the mother of all classical musical festivals?
BBC4 11 December 2011 DVD Format 720x576 (16:9) 25fps PAL 384kbps 48.0kHz AC3
3.9GB
