I was on the Metro in Paris when a three-piece band (with amplifier) jumped into the carriage I was travelling in. Between that station and the next, they played the Lambada and it was so joyful that by the time they jumped off everybody had a smile on their face. That was nearly 30 years ago, and I still remember it clearly to this day - also with a smile on my face🤗
I totally agree. God bless those people who brought happiness , class, peace, love, harmony, education and social education of this sort to the public’s who may never have experienced this education in their lifetime. So proud of my nation!
JAZZ MAN --- My favorite is Antwerp station from a long time ago.This video was uploaded in 2009. It makes me toe tappin' happy every time I watch it. It's a big group, it took a lot of rehearsal. Wikipedia says it was close to 200 people. AND, best of all, the singer is someone we all adore, and the song is one we all know. 😊 Enjoy. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7EYAUazLI9k.html
This is why we pay them. This is why we build concert halls for them. This is why their life is their profession and passion. We owe musicians an important role in our society. We SHOULD NEVER forget that. This is their legacy and their time. It should be all the time. Talent must be endorsed, rewarded and propagated. It's what we are.
Kummer45. If you as a private individual want to donate, or if those musicians want to go out and fundraise they have that ability, more power to them. What's not okay is spending tax payer dollars on music, not the role of the state.
@@Phnxkon If products or services have no sustainability economically on their own, they have no right to take from taxpayers. You can help taxpayers by not diverting their hard earned money into things they wouldn't normally buy, and if there is enough economic sustainability why mist they be government subsidized to begin with? Your not helping taxpayers, your "helping" the taxpayers who happen to be in that mall on that day who enjoy music, otherwise your justifying theft on one person for the enjoyment of another. You have a right to your own labor and nobody can eat from the fruit of your labor without your consentual transaction.
The folks with the music sheets strapped to their backs for the people behind them who couldn't get a music stand is the best and most thoughtful touch here. ^_^
It’s not that they _couldnt_ get a music stand….how on earth could they carry one and play an instrument at the same time?? Everybody who’s studied music and then played/sung professionally at any level understand on maxim better than most, “Needs must when the devil drives,” lmao!!
@@voraciousreader3341 That is very fair. With the number of players that joined in on this game, it's doubtful they would have been able to just walk in with music stands and everything. It's still an awesome and thoughtful touch. ^_^
Alucard Hellsing ..I’m so sorry , you must have a dreadful problem we no nothing about , I hope it’s not health or possibly a bereavement.. I hope time will cure your problem and you can once again become a happy well balanced person , we must all take knocks in life , I’ve had some so I know how you must feel right now , let’s all hope there are happier days ahead for you , bear with it , time is a great healer .
It gets even better when you think about how this was a surprise performance and the conversations that must have preceded it… “Why are you staring at me, can’t a guy bring his tuba to the mall?”
The genius of Bolero is that it's basically two melodies repeated over and over using different instruments/groups of instruments in different textures and it stays in the same key (C major) until a few bars before the end where it suddenly moves up to E major, only to come crashing back down to C major in the last few bars. Such a simple idea, but Ravel thought of it first. I come back to this performance ever so often and it always has me weeping tears of joy. Love it and love the reaction it elicits from the crowd! It's one of those experiences which makes you feel good to be alive and restores your faith in humanity!
@@somaday2595 If you haven't already, look into "Unraveling Bolero" a painting by Anne Adams that was inspired by Bolero. Adams was chemist and cellular biologist that quit her career in science to follow her artistic interests. She created "Unraveling Bolero" in 1994 which is a bar-by-bar representation of the song. In 2002 she was diagnosed with progressive primary aphasia. RadioLab has a very good episode that covers both Adams and Ravel.
I don't play an instrument & I'm slightly tone-deaf (I can't distinguish the sound/notes of some instruments) so, I didn't realize that each repetition was played by a different musical instrument. I finally found this out at a pre-concert talk by the Conductor of my local symphony. That evening's performance took on a whole different meaning for me as I looked toward each instrument's section waiting for it to join in. It was delightful.
Respect for these professionals years studying music. Thank you for doing this short classic concert most people cannot go to a classic or opera concert.
Women were rarely to never hired by orchestras. The audition team would sigh and "We're not prejudiced. They're just not good enough." Someone had a simple brilliant idea. Don't let the team see the musician. Women even take off their heels so the tap tap doesn't give them away. BOING! Suddenly the women were being hired. 😁💖
Vvvvv y y vvvvgvvhvvvvvh y hvvvv y vvv y vvvvv VB vvvvvvvvvvvvhvvvvgvvvv y hvvvvvghv y vhhvhvhhgvhvhvvvh GT y hgvhuhghhvvgvvh Chubut hhhvhhhyuhhhhvhhhhuhhhhhhhuuuhhhvvhhghvvhvhhhhhvhvvv hoy hoy v y v vu y u fui uhuuuyhuuu hillbilly tú hguuuhyhhvhüuyyuhuuuyh hoy y y h y CGT cucú h y chukchi y vhhhhhhhhhyhhhvhhggghvuhhhugghh VfB v CGT cucú h hvhvvvh y v CGT vv CF vvvhhvvvvhvgvvgghgv CF v CGT vvvvvhvvvvvvh y v ghhg y vvvvvvvvh y v y h y CF vhhgvvvh rugby cubriendo Chungcheong hiperbolizó u fui bibliotecológico Chubut y Gregorio hijo higrométrico y Chubut vvhhh Chubut IgG hu ijujú u huy h
@@ethanisnothere1375 Oh I think I get what your original comment meant... Flutes usually get drowned out by the rest of the orchestra, but in this video it got a chance to be heard?
I love how they play off the acoustics in the building. I can't imagine what this sounded like.... And... would have sounded soo diferent in each individual location
Musician here! Seeing all of these wonderful comments about the people in my profession just warms my heart so much! Thank you for helping to keep the spirit of classical music alive my friends!♥️♥️♥️
As long as there is still music to appreciate, and the people who appreciate it, music will live on forever. Especially true of the legit classics like this. Keep bringing music to the people.
Kind of reminds you fo PRESIDENT TRUMP coming down that GOLDEN ESCALATOR in TRUMP PLAZA with his heavenly bride and child standing next to his side...Just the way it should be right
Absolutely darlings thankyou for a wonderfull treat i have allways loved this piece of phenomenally inspiring music 🎵 have long healthy lives all of you and may music allways inspire us and keep the world sane happy 2024 to all ❤💟💟☮️☮️🕎☸️✝️🇦🇺🇦🇺🌈🌈🦘🦘🐚💜🤎🖤🩶❤️💚🧡🩷🩵❤️🩹🐚🩶💝😘🙋🙋🙋🙏🙏🙏🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱💙💙💙💙💙
J would do the same with my oboe but ya know oboes are kinda usually are extremely expensive and made out of wood so like big no to high risk of damage
I always carry my 10 pound tenor sax case around, along with my clip on tuner, 3 music binders, and 2 music stands and a chorus of random piccilos and trumpets to boost my ego
Amidst a world of so much cacophony emerges this uplifting musical healing event. I’m literally in tears. God bless all of you for using your talents so surprisingly and so elegantly
Yeah me too, it's fantastic. Both the piece and the performance -- exquisite. You have to consider what a privilege it is for someone to have created something that continues to bring joy to so many long after their passing. It's a form of immortality and permanent philanthropy.
Four years later: I'm sitting here in tears and I have no idea why. Just the brilliance of this and the skill of all sorts of musicians from everywhere. Hadn't heard these for a while.
literally half the people in the mall at the beginning were in on that, I would find it so funny to see a small little performance and then a random ass dude behind you just pulls out a trumpet and starts playing, and then all the people next to you just pull out other instruments
Incredible idea to have the instrumentalists walk up to the scene and join in. As a violinist, this has been my all time favorite classical piece since childhood, by Maurice Ravel. Well done my friends!
IF I EXPERIENCE THIS IN PERSON, I WOULD CRY! IT IS A WONDERFUL SURPRISE JUST TO WALK ACROSS AND WATCH A WONDERFUL GROUP OF MUSICIANS! I HAVE HUGE RESPECT TO ALL MUSICIANS WHO LIGHTEN UP OUR LIVES! B R A V O!!!
This is my all time favorite song. And when you hear it live, it just makes my heart BURST with happiness. How lucky all those people were to get a free concert by such talented musicians. These are grown men performing and the next generation learning from their elders, what JOY. I'm a drummer but I can't keep that rhythm of the drummer. He's also not a kid. Such a professional.
@@ScienceFan1859 There are no lyrics to this song. Haven't you ever heard of The Classics? These are songs written in the 1600, 1700 and 18th centuries. People enjoyed music for the sake of the song .... no lyrics.
Best flash mob ever. I’m so jealous that I’m never out when something like this happens. I’ve played that song so many times, but never has it made me emotional. 🥰
@@theoriginaldashriprock do you think flash mobs are just a bunch of random people that happen to know all the choreography to a particular song and are willing to burst into said dance, in public, at the drop of a hat? 🤨
@@user-pt1cz4ot1e a flash mob is made up of random people, yes. Who answered a call from social media to show up at a particular place at a particular time. What is in this video was not a flash mob. It was a planned performance. The musicians didn't just show up on their own. Notice how they came out of random doors, where their cases and other belongings are? Nobody brings big drums and large instruments to a flash mob.
@@towanda2947 It's a mall in Leeds, up North in England. Spotlessly clean and very friendly people (the North is known for its _"Northern hospitality.")_
Watching music played at its highest potential with full enjoyment from the musicians and the listeners makes me feel happy and I start to cry. It's a passion
You cry because it's like seeing into the mind of God and getting just a glimpse of what He really created us to be, and in seeing it, your heart leaps for joy. I dare say we've heard plenty about Original Sin, but not NEARLY enough about Original Glory, which came first, and is more true to our nature.
Yes, as a double bass player in my high school orchestra (and yes, we did play classical--quite well), that made _my_ day! (I surprised someone in a hallway of the school while carrying _two_ basses, one under each arm hanging onto them by the f-holes, while going between the classroom and the auditorium. They're quite light, just bulky.)
As a musician myself, there is nothing more heart warming than playing music and everyone clapping and smiling after hearing what you create. It makes you feel like you did an important job to someone you didn’t know needed it. It makes you smile like nothing before, making you so happy that you could make so many others smile too.
As sometimes obnoxious as she is, Madonna is and will continue to be a remembered pop star, at least. She made a big impression on 7th grade girls I was around, insofar as they tried to dress like her as much as possible. She was an icon of female "Knowing" in her time, the '80s.
@@tomfrazier1103 Madonna was as important to the 1980's and 90's as Elvis was to the 1950's and 60's. Possibly not the best music and lyrics ever written, yet important in their time. Like Elvis, she was not a one hit wonder and is definitely recognized for her contribution to music. Is their music as good as Bolero? No, yet made an impact.
THIS. Live performances never get old, and I would lose my mind if I caught one. Marched to Bolero in high school band and we went all the way to state that year, well, every year. Music performance stays with you…❤ this has to be the UK… 😊
This came up on my feed again and I just wanna say: that trombonist playing the solo is everything I want to be in life. My dude is just fuckin *living* it.
It's July 30th 2023. For some reason I've been watching Ennio Morricone for the last hour. Which led me here, which reminded me of my 10 year old self wearing headphones listening to my dad's vinyl of Ravels Bolero over 40 years ago. My dad died over 10 years ago. Never really think about him, as he was not a particularly nice man. But strangely, right now I wish more than anything I could speak to him. The power of music will never diminish. 💙
This brought tears too my eyes - the beauty of music unifies us all. Thank you all - musicians conductor and the people who watched and listened - so very much for this the better of humanity☮️
Goosebumps! Every time, over and over again. They always appear when the guy with the trombone starts playing and then they last till the end! So amazingly well done!!!
Mine start with the conductor beginning with his hands, and that happy little smile on his face. They keep building through the performance, and especially increase with the guy playing the double bass down the escalator. 💖
2 года назад
magine you brought Ravel back to life, you are his guide showing him the modern life and you end the day going to a mall and these instrumentists appear from nowhere starting playing Bolero.
Impossibly beautifully played. Such joy this brings. My 2 year old granddaughter asks for it all the time and hums along Ravel’s melody. Thank you for introducing her to classical music so early in life without having to take her to a concert hall. From Canada, thank you again.
Brings tears to my eyes that this is all it takes to share a space filled with peeps who probably never spoke to each other prior to this. Now they're smiling ... at each other no less! My heart is filled ...
Ravel's words: "It constitutes an experiment in a very special and limited direction, and should not be suspected of aiming at achieving anything different from, or anything more than, it actually does achieve. Before its first performance, I issued a warning to the effect that what I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of 'orchestral tissue without music'-of one very long, gradual crescendo. There are no contrasts, and practically no invention except the plan and the manner of execution." He did actually think it was he's only masterpiece, at least is what says the Wikipedia page about Boleró...
This caused something unusual to happen to me. It brought me to tears. I have two combat tours in Vietnam and generally equate the gathering of people as threatening, and to be avoided. What struck me here, was how easily folks, even my tortured generation, could have, should have, gathered to reach the souls of our fellows with something as stirring as music, rather than the insanity of "suppressive fire," as we did so many years ago. I am no idealist, the jungles burned that out of me! But as a pragmatist, I wonder how much longer we can continue to meet each other with increasing lethality, instead of something as easily orchestrated as music. This surprise performance should be a blueprint for us to consider, before we stumble blindly into the day, the music died!
its a fuckin awesome feelin. especially when, early in your pursuit of an instrument to play, you jump in with musicians much better than yourself, ride it out, andddddddddd you got to the end. your brain catches up with your fingers and its an addiction. i love that feelin.
Music, food for the soul but also a universal language. How lovely to see talented musicians using their talent like that, just for someone else's pleasure and delight!
This brought goosebumps, a huge smile and tears to me all at the same time. We need all of this to come back. The joy of live music and the joy of sharing it with everyone.
Whenever i hear "Bolero" I can't help but see in my mind's eye the beautiful ice dancing performance of Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean in the 1984 Olympics.
Smiled. I've loved this piece by Ravel since I first heard it 35 years ago. The full piece is some 30 minutes. One side of a vinyl press. It's an exquisite exp listening to it. The performance here is enchanting. The acoustics of that area is perfect.
As a 62 year old, im familiar with this beautiful piece of classical music. My mom had this on an old 78 rpm record, and played it quite often on our Zenith hi fi , at a loud volume!! I love it! This performance it absolutely AWSOME!! SUCH TALENT! Oh, and I have that old Zenith console, 1954 model, still WORKS AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY...
I find most of them an annoyance especially when it's by the road side. Witness it happened a few times, people rush over just to see what's happening. Don't get me started on the music video ones. Those are the worst. If its a rapper, it'll end up in a fight, public burnouts, etc. Music group tends to lengthen the congestion. Dance group leaves people standing around or not looking where they're going.
So glad you knew it was a flash mob! Maybe the people making comments on this RU-vid haven't ever heard of one & so don't know what it's really about - entertainment. If some people can't enjoy it, that's sad but each to his own.
