This is fun: Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra. “I was challenged to improvise a piece of music with an orchestra, with no plan, no sheet music, no rehearsal, and no prior discussion. Here’s what happened.”
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It’s so delightful to watch a savant at work. Thanks for sharing this!
Be warned, if you click on this you are likely to get sucked in for about 18 minutes. It was delightful!
Somehow, because the symphony synchronizes to Collier, it reminded me a bit of this Volkswagen commercial from the 90s.
I have no idea how music theory works but when the audience started singing I burst into tears.
I got emotional there as well...
This was a sublime KDO experience: getting sucked into something I didn’t know I would find fascinating, and now I’m going down the rabbit hole discovering the music of Jacob Collier
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