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