Orchestral Harp

Something like this.

man coughs, gags triumphant orchestral finale

You have the story of the audience as a community. Yeah.

Listen up, orchestra.

My job depends upon it.

We have another well known case Gustavo Dudamel.

There is a full blown orchestra

The magical moment, the magical moment of conducting.

A conductor directs an orchestra.

(Music)

I'm going to join the school orchestra.

Well it seems that the brain is just a bit more complicated than that.

The truck they go on tour with.

But I'll tell you how they do it. No cynicism.

This is the fifth concert by this orchestra.

All the orchestra were pleased with their success.

I decided to face the challenge, and on that same night,

It's on!

menacing orchestral music playing

And that changed everything for me. It was totally life changing.

You must conduct the orchestra well.

The conductor of this orchestra is a fine musician.

And there are some of us who think you ain't seen nothing yet.

I was 45 years old, I'd been conducting for 20 years, and I suddenly had a realization.

They sat in the front row of the concert hall and heard the orchestra clearly.

Then a bass player named Ray Brown, and a fellow named Stanley Turrentine, and a piano player named Herbie Hancock, and a band called the Count Basie Orchestra, and a fellow named Tito Puente, and a guy named Gary Burton, and Shirley Horn, and Betty Carter, and Dakota Staton and Nancy Wilson all have come to this center in the middle of an industrial park to sold out audiences in the middle of the inner city.

So I fought my way off my label, and for my next project with my new band, the Grand Theft Orchestra,

I was on a tour with an orchestra in the northern States.

People came to the concert hall to listen to the famous orchestra.

And this is a six year old child composing a piece of music for a 32 piece orchestra.

It's going to be Britain's first ever national disabled orchestra.

And we're going to play just the very tail end of this symphony now.

And when Karajan is asked about it he actually says, Yes, the worst damage

With us tonight is the Youth Orchestra Illinois.

The orchestra members respected Mr Smith as a conductor.

Why not use all this instrumental knowledge that I'm acquiring to write my own music?

One of the largest collections is called the Brain Opera.

But (Laughter)

He could conduct a symphony orchestra with it.

And it's that ability, that ability to hear simultaneous sounds, not only just single sounds, but when a whole orchestra is playing,

But Viennese audiences do not do that.

Don't worry about the orchestra. They'll only need half an hour's rehearsal. Excellent.

So in order for all this to work, obviously I have got to be in a position of trust.

So clear. Maybe a little bit over clear.