Flashmob...

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Can't remember if I've posted this before, but it can stand repetition...

Cheers,

Mike

[Dogbert Dilbert]

Post by Mike Scott Rohan
Can't remember if I've posted this before, but it can stand repetition...
http://youtu.be/n9EcmI9cCes
Cheers,
Mike

gave me goosebumps, that did. Looking forward to Siegfried at my local Tesco.

Dogbertd

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Post by Dogbert Dilbert

Post by Mike Scott Rohan
Can't remember if I've posted this before, but it can stand repetition...
http://youtu.be/n9EcmI9cCes
Cheers,
Mike

gave me goosebumps, that did. Looking forward to Siegfried at my local Tesco.
Dogbertd

Well, here's a Tesco:

But you might have to go to Waitrose for Siegfried.

Cheers,

Mike

[Bert Coules]

Lovely, thanks. And it supports my long-held belief that an opera house is
far from being the best place to experience opera.

Bert

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Post by Bert Coules
Lovely, thanks. And it supports my long-held belief that an opera house is
far from being the best place to experience opera.
Bert

Know what you mean. I've encountered it in some pretty outre places, from various town halls to the ruins of Bolsover Castle (Freischutz, it was terrible alas but an experience), and it was always fun. There used to be a German town that staged Freischutz actually in the forest; I'd have liked to see that, but I think it's gone now, too Werktreu no doubt. At Dalhalla (sic) in Sweden they staged Rheingold in a substantial quarry pool, with the singers in wetsuits -- and a stage for Valhalla and Nibelheim, of course. Mind you, for Wagner in particular it helps to have good comfortable seats and an enclosed environment.

No moe Wagner I can find, except for a very bad Walkurenritt -- but I hope folks will like something from my own area -- this is an amateur company!

Cheers,

Mike

[Bert Coules]

Mike, that link took me to a promotional video for a grammar-checking
program.

Bert

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Post by Bert Coules
Mike, that link took me to a promotional video for a grammar-checking
program.
Bert

Umm. Nothing personal, I assure you, Bert. I do apologise. I like your style, honestly....

No, seriously, when I try the link myself, as I usually do, it takes me straight to the piece. But if I go in through YT's front end, I do get that bloody commercial, though it has the usual four-second skip button. Perhaps it's usurped YT's reference. Sorry, if so. Ah well, it's not really unmissable, anyhow.

Cheers,

Mike

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Post by Mike Scott Rohan

Post by Bert Coules
Mike, that link took me to a promotional video for a grammar-checking
program.
Bert

Umm. Nothing personal, I assure you, Bert. I do apologise. I like your style, honestly....
No, seriously, when I try the link myself, as I usually do, it takes me straight to the piece. But if I go in through YT's front end, I do get that bloody commercial, though it has the usual four-second skip button. Perhaps it's usurped YT's reference. Sorry, if so. Ah well, it's not really unmissable, anyhow.
Cheers,
Mike

As some apology, here's one that doesn't seem to have any ads.

Looks like the main train station. "Bitte, wann fahrt die nachste Schwan?"

Cheers,

Mike

[Bert Coules]

It seems that I get something different each time: this morning it was a
trailer for a Channel 5 drama series, apparently about a rather jolly bunch
of nuns. And - as before - no direct option for skipping it. But
eventually I reached the Carmen: lovely stuff, and how interesting that the
public very definitely kept a wary distance from Escamilio: some flashmob
performances do seem to have that effect, while others somehow draw
spectators in. Obviously a fruitful area for research...

Bert

[Mike Scott Rohan]

Post by Bert Coules
It seems that I get something different each time: this morning it was a
trailer for a Channel 5 drama series, apparently about a rather jolly bunch
of nuns. And - as before - no direct option for skipping it. But
eventually I reached the Carmen: lovely stuff, and how interesting that the
public very definitely kept a wary distance from Escamilio: some flashmob
performances do seem to have that effect, while others somehow draw
spectators in. Obviously a fruitful area for research...
Bert

I think that's partly the traffic pattern of that particular place -- a small square on the main route from a shopping mall to Charlotte Square (and just outside an expensive deli!) -- and not "who is that loony?" Or they may just assume he's another busker, at first; we suffer badly from them during Festival time. I think flashmobs usually work better if it's obviously something larger beginning. I mean, what'd you think if somebody just popped up in the local shopping centre and started singing the Forging Song? Send for the men with butterfly nets, I expect. If there are several people involved, it's more obviously an event.

Mind you, I gather there have been several classical flashmobs interrupted by mall guards! None, hopefully, as bad as that legendary Midwestern Fidelio overture, hampered by the local sheriff arresting the offstage trumpet player -- "You ain't gonna toot that thar horn, thar's folk listenin' to music in there!"

Cheers,

Mike