{"id":14303,"date":"2012-12-07T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/12\/07\/14303.html"},"modified":"2012-12-07T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:02:20","slug":"three-orchestral-flash-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/12\/07\/three-orchestral-flash-mobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Three orchestral flash mobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first of these videos I saw was the WDR Radio Orchestra showing up seemingly out of nowhere in the Cologne Wallrafplatz in October to play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sTHXIzHPyqE\"><cite>Star Wars<\/cite> theme<\/a>. Cute and fun. (About two minutes.)<\/p>\n<p>The next I saw was from the Copenhagen Metro in April, where the Copenhagen Phil played a piece from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gww9_S4PNV0\"><cite>Peer Gynt<\/cite><\/a> on a subway car. Lovely and nicely done, though it kinda looks like half the people on that car are involved with the orchestra. (Also about two minutes.)<\/p>\n<p>Now Jay points to a video of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in San Jos&eacute;, Costa Rica playing the &ldquo;Waltz of the Flowers&rdquo; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIeKjpPFnGk\">The Nutcracker<\/a>. This one is five minutes long, but I think it's my favorite of the three (even though I'm not a <cite>Nutcracker<\/cite> fan); among other things, I love the sudden flight of birds at around 0:40, and the little kids running through things, and more generally I think the dance aspect makes the musical-flash-mob idea even cooler.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this must now be a Thing that orchestras do&mdash;show up out of nowhere, perform, and depart as swiftly as they came. I've seen similar kinds of things done by Improv Everywhere and Prangstgr&uuml;p and others, but seeing an orchestra do it is new to me. I like it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of these videos I saw was the WDR Radio Orchestra showing up seemingly out of nowhere in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}