The RU-vid Symphony Orchestra is a global endeavor devoted to sharing the love of music and celebrating humanity's vast creative diversity. Musicians selected to perform in the orchestra were invited to Sydney, Australia in March, 2011 where they worked with world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and received coaching by leading musicians from the world's top orchestras. The week culminated in a Grand Finale concert at Sydney Opera House which was live stream to millions around the world.
Here I'm again, after 13 years. I'm a music student in a university here in Brazil, and this video is one of my biggest introductions to a different kind of concert music, contemporary, but with deep roots in our synphonic tradition. After talking with a spalla of one of the biggest orchestras here in Brazil, which played some of Mason Bates compositions, I had to listen to this once again. I got a little emotional, I must say. Seeing how the internet and the world has changed in those 13 years, and how this same evolution of internet gave us so much possibnilities to know about the great tradition of composers and all the new great musiciains and inventors of music that we have in our times, gave me so much energy to keep pursuing my very need of creating music for our times. This is one of the best things that happened to our contemporary music.
