Melbourne Symphony Orchestra livebroadcast

March 16, 2020 2:25 AM

Live on YouTube, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra versus COVID-19.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's concert program includes Bloch: Schlomo; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade; and Deborah Cheetham's acknowledgement of country. This was the third of three performances at Melbourne's Hamer Hall which usually holds about 2500 or so, but tonight the audience was not allowed in as the large event ban has commenced today in Australia.

I recommend you rewind back to the start to avoid buffering issues.

posted by Coaticass (6 comments total)

Listening now. Poignant experience. I've seen a couple of artists tweeting about doing online performances in the last day or so. I think we could see a good few more like this. You can donate some money to them, if you wish, here.
posted by rongorongo at 7:05 AM on March 16, 2020 [1 favorite]

The Metropolitan Opera is going to be running daily(!) reshows of their "Live in HD" performances.
posted by Death and Gravity at 7:44 AM on March 16, 2020 [2 favorites]

This Ask Metafilter thread is collecting streaming performance links like this.
posted by mbrubeck at 8:36 AM on March 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

Thanks mbrubeck, I missed that somehow.
posted by Coaticass at 12:43 PM on March 16, 2020

Report in today's Guardian says they had 38,000 views and rising, they mention quite a few similar projects too.
posted by Coaticass at 2:17 AM on March 17, 2020

Another one right now. Beethoven #7. Looks like they took a tape measure to their seating arrangements, still sounds great though.
posted by Coaticass at 1:51 AM on March 19, 2020