Using Virtual Reality technology, the LA Philharmonic Orchestra is allowing listeners to not only see the musicians playing Beethoven – but stand in amongst them too.
Fifty-five seconds into Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the French horns call out from the lilt of the orchestra with three quick high notes and three longer lower ones. It’s Beethoven’s dramatic introduction of Fate, the symphony’s main character; it’s a fitting personification by a musician entangled in a personal struggle with the concept. Even as he wrote the most famous and recognizable piece of music in the classical library, the composer was going deaf.
The moment is drama. Tension. Crescendo. And I am sitting in the middle of it. I can see Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s slightly closed eyes as he leans forward to signal the horns... Keep reading on Wired
Fifty-five seconds into Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the French horns call out from the lilt of the orchestra with three quick high notes and three longer lower ones. It’s Beethoven’s dramatic introduction of Fate, the symphony’s main character; it’s a fitting personification by a musician entangled in a personal struggle with the concept. Even as he wrote the most famous and recognizable piece of music in the classical library, the composer was going deaf.
The moment is drama. Tension. Crescendo. And I am sitting in the middle of it. I can see Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s slightly closed eyes as he leans forward to signal the horns... Keep reading on Wired