NYO perform Anna Meredith's HandsFree - BBC Proms 2012
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2012
- BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform Anna Meredith's HandsFree.
Composer: Anna Meredith
Choreographer: David Ogle
Anna Meredith just spent the weekend teaching this to my youth orchestra. It's pretty crazy
Yeah that was crazy
That's very funny, as well as being clever; not only is the performance a challenge for a conventionally-minded viewer, it's very engaging and primal. Goes to show what a long way audiences have come since Stravinsky's day I guess, that they can accept something this savage and exhilarating as true art. Good on them and kudos to the orchestra for the great performance.
And the funny? Yeah, it's the audience response at the end - something which I'm sure Meredith must have considered in advance and factored in as a joke. The audience clapping cheering and whistling a performance which consisted of the same. Priceless.
Would kill to have my works performed by this many people, with this level of dedication. What an opportunity! One that most composers will sadly never have.
That is coordination a digital computer would be envious of. God damn, Anna is a goddess of rhythm.
this is exactly what my prom was like
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen at the Proms.
This is amazing, I particularly loved the "Yeah!" part near the end, it was really well thought out and performed!
07:07 : Proud to be British !
I'm so happy this is up on line! I heard it on the radio when it was broadcast live and loved it but it has so much more to offer as a televisual experience. Brilliant, beautiful work.
This sets a new high bar in human systems percussion. Steve Reich must be crying somewhere!
What joy. Breath taking. Utterly speechless. Genius, both in performance and construction. Wow.
This is such an amazing piece. I love the use of people and bodies to create the sound. Exciting, exhilirating, wonderful, made me cry. Thank you Anna
Insprational and superb. This is what football crowds should be up to. Anna, please can you do something at Sunderland AFC? A residency at SAFC would be ace!!
Absolutely brillant!
I love this so much.
Needs to be an Ableton Rack.
Absolutely stunning definitely my 'find of the year' 2014. I heard it just now on Radio Three and knew I had to see it, as it was likely to be very visual. It is astonishing writing, exciting, engaging and dynamic. I would also say original, except that I wrote piece called Concerto for Human Body and Chorus of Bodies in 1973. It was nowhere near as good as this of course. Be assured I will be coming back to this regularly to see this brilliant piece. I would love to see those prisoners in the Philippines take this on.
Brilliant!
Wow - that was mesmerising.
Amazing concentration by all fantastic x
Amazing.
Bravo!
so rad
Sweetness
Reminds me of the 'Akira' soundtrack.
Wow
At the very least this is fresh. Really, really good. This shit needs to go viral.
yes. this is a YOUTH orchestra.
Still think about this, and i keep wondering if Meredith intended people to think that it was the end half way through or if it was just not the best place to put a climactic moment. Also it must be considered that they’d just done the 70+ min Turagulila symphony, and the audience didn’t need any excuse to grab onto anything that sounded like an end, especially something they hadn’t heard before.
I was there for this. Horrible when people really thought it was over in the middle.
Called hands free, but the first thing they do is clap, which needs two hands 😂 really cool piece. Would like to experience live
Why do I feel like shouting 'Trinidad' at the end?
Happy feet has entered the chat😂😂
Original. Inspiring. Awesome (and I don't use that word lightly!)
That's got to be exhausting! Clapping for anything more than 30 seconds really hurts.
This is the kind of thing I would expect someone schooled in Eastern metaphysics to compose. Definitely products of the westen aesthetic since John Cage . Was all this memorized or were the instructions on musicsheet ? As a concert piece I wonder what is the reception for audiences expecting contemporary sounds . Not Turnage, Ades, ,Unsuk Chin or Knussen here but equally valid of course.
movimientos the OA
Has anyone seen high schoolers step?
This must've been a bitch to notate
Im sure most of them HATED doing this. It's not music.
Music is usually defined as organised sound over an underlying pulse. It was a challenge to learn, but a really interesting piece which was workshopped over the course of a year and taught and learnt from memory during the summer residency. We never saw the score. Also exhausting to perform at end of a challenging programme including Varese, a new commission from Nico Muhly and Turangalila Symphony in its entirety. But, an amazing experience for all involved. (Principal trombone of NYO 2012)
yall look so bored lol
Haha it wasn't that fun!
👎Perform😂