YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Grand Finale

  • March 26, 2011 12:18 pm

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Join 101 musicians from over 30 countries who make up the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 playing a spectacular Grand Finale concert at Sydney Opera House.The musicians met for a weeklong celebration of music in Sydney culminating in the Grand Finale featuring animated visuals on the interior and exterior projections by Obscura Digital on the iconic sails, all synchronised to the music of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011′s performance and conducted by YouTube Symphony Orchestra Artistic Advisor Michael Tilson Thomas.

0:02:05 Introduction by MTT

0:03:20 Hector Berlioz – Roman Carnival – Overture, Op. 9 (featuring Android Jones – digital artist)

0:13:00 Meet Maria Chiossi – Harp

0:18:10 Percy Grainger – Arrival on a Platform Humlet from in a Nutshell – Suite

0:22:20 Johan Sebastian Bach – Toccata in F major for organ (featuring Cameron Carpenter)

0:30:00 Meet Paulo Calligopoulos – Electric Guitar and violin

0:32:55 Alberto Ginastera – Danza del trigo (Wheat Dance) and Danza final (Malambo) from the ballet Estancia (conducted by Ilyich Rivas)

0:42:22 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – ‘Caro’ bell’idol mio’ – Canon in three voices, K562 (featuring the Sydney Children’s Choir and soprano Renee Fleming via video)

0:45:14 Meet Xiomara Mass – Oboe

0:48:42 Benjamin Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

1:07:25 Intermission with Sarah Willis, Horn, Berlin Philharmoniker and Nina Perlove, Flute, YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2009

1:29:00 William Barton – Kalkadunga (featuring William Barton – Didgeridoo)

1:34:14 Timothy Constable – Suna

1:37:38 Meet Roman Riedel – Trombone

1:41:33 Richard Strauss – Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic (featuring Sarah Willis, Horn, Berlin Philharmoniker and conducted by Edwin Outwater)

1:44:10 *PREMIERE* Mason Bates – Mothership (specially composed for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011)

1:55:34 Meet Su Chang – Guzheng

1:58:33 Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (Finale) (featuring Stefan Jackiw and conducted by Ilyich Rivas)

2:05:45 Meet Ozgur Baskin – Violin

2:08:56 Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei – Ascending Bird – Suite for string orchestra (featuring Colin Jacobsen, violin, and Richard Tognetti, violin, and Kseniya Simonova – sand artist)

2:16:50 Meet Stepan Grytsay – Violin

2:20:12 Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (Infernal Dance – Berceuse – Finale)

2:36:00 *ENCORE* Franz Schubert – Rosamunde (featuring Andrew Mariner – clarinet)

Duration : 2:43:28

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Do you have to pay unusual high gas and electricity bills?

  • March 25, 2011 5:31 pm

I received energy bills for almost £300.00 to pay from December 2010 – March 2011. I am a single unemployed mother and I live with my daughter. We are located near East London and the meter was read by an EDF Employee. I send them my meter reading to ensure accuracy. I wonder whether there are other unemployed people who have to cope with such high bills. How do they pay? Do they borrow money? Do they pay installments? Are they in debt until they have a job?

We had a similar problem a couple of years ago with Eon but it turns out they hadn’t charged us for a few previous months and then we got a huge bill in one go. But to be honest, £300 doesn’t sound too much considering the winter we’ve had, my bill is about the same and we live in an upstairs flat. I’m pretty sure you can pay in installments, or just up your monthly bill a little and it should pay for itself gradually through the year as the weather gets warmer.

The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil

  • March 18, 2011 11:43 am

From the album Beggars Banquet

Lineup (according to Wikipedia)
Mick Jagger: lead and backup vocals
Keith Richards: electric guitar, bass guitar, backup vocals
Brian Jones: acoustic guitar (not audible in final mix), backup vocals
Bill Wyman: maracas, backup vocals
Charlie Watts: drums, percussion, backup vocals
Nicky Hopkins: piano
Rocky Dijon: congas
Jimmy Miller: backup vocals
Marianne Faithfull: backup vocals

all rights to the rolling stones decca records & abkco records & producer jimmy miller

Lyrics:
Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But whats confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me lucifer
cause Im in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or Ill lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, whats my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, whats my name
I tell you one time, youre to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
Whats me name
Tell me, baby, whats my name
Tell me, sweetie, whats my name
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah

Duration : 0:6:20

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Is there a plug in electric heater that is cheaper to operate than my heat strips?

  • March 17, 2011 6:42 pm

I have a small townhouse in Charleston SC. It uses heat strips for heat and is costly to operate. Is there a plug in electric heater that is cheaper to use than the heat strips? Cheers.

however, I think you may be referring to some other sort of electric heater.

electric heaters are considered to be 100% efficient: virtually every watt consumed directly contributes to heating the space. Despite what Paul Harvey says, no portable heater exists that is magically more efficient than anything else. where you may see some benefits in economy, would be to maintain a lower overall temperature, and use a small forced air heater to heat your immediate area. the point to keep in mind, though, is that the structure of the home contributes to it feeling warm or cold: if your walls and floor are left cold all of the time, and the heat only boosted when you’re in the room, then the room will tend to feel cold all the time. the natural tendency is to try to boost the heat more, to compensate for the room feeling cold. if the walls and floor are kept a little warmer, then the room feels warmer with less heat.

a little object lesson in that factor: my church used to use a timer to turn the heating system completely off when the building was vacant. we replaced the timer with a programmable setback thermostat, and maintained the building at 60 degrees when vacant, and people stopped complaining about being cold, and the gas bill went down.

good luck to you.

How can I save more on my electricity bills?

  • March 14, 2011 3:24 am

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