Interesting Orchestra Collection 2 - The Icicle Orchestra

Go to this page to see the Icicle Orchestra. Pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset plays instruments made from a 2,500 year old glacier; "the instruments belong to nature".

Yo Yo Ma

Explore the music and ideas of Yo-Yo Ma with this video, and the podcast

"My Favorite Things" played by Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Botti, trumpet

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Interesting Orchestra Collection 1: The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

 (Photo by Mathias Friedrich, courtesy of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra)

They are vegetables playing instruments?  Or they are musicians playing vegetables?
Read this story about this unusual group, and watch the video from YouTube:







The Orchestra's homepage is http://www.gemueseorchester.org, where you can hear excerpts from their two CDs
gemise:  ambiente verde excerpt (mp3)     letscho 74 excerpt (mp3)
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