YouTube's Symphony Orchestra

Professional and amateur musicians from around the world auditioned for YouTube's first symphony orchestra. The audition tapes were judged by professional musicians from some of the most renowned orchestras from around the world.

The orchestra will be preforming a piece written by Chinese composer Tan Dun in Carnegie Hall tonight, April 15th, 2009. If you can't get to Carnegie Hall for the performance you can still listen to a Global Mashup of the Internet Symphony.



To see the audition videos, interviews, and find out more information visit the YouTube Symphony Orchestra page.

Remembering George Frideric Handel

It was 250 years ago today that the world saw the passing of George Frideric Handel. The German born musician started his career as an organist for the Calvinist Domkirche (cathedral) but soon traveled to Hamburg, Italy, Hanover, and finally settling in England. Handel was first composer to break from court and church patrons to receive his living directly the public.

Read more about Handel's life and career in:
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, 2005.
UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2003.
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 2004.

Listen to Excerpts to Handel's Water Music Suite No.1 from Classical Music library
Mvt. 3: Allegro
Mvt.4: Andante
Mvt.6: Air
Mvt.8: Bourree
Mvt.9: Hornpipe

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New Quick Flicks for the Week of 4/14/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

A Secret By Miller, Claude 2009/03 - Strand BL01873DVD Check Our Catalog Claude Miller directs this engrossing drama about a Jewish boy in post-World War II Paris who stumbles upon a mysterious toy in the attic, exposing his family's secret dark past and how it survived Nazi atrocities. ...More

Gospel Hill By 2009/02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543566090 Check Our Catalog Angela Bassett and Danny Glover lead a celebrated cast including Julia Stiles, Adam Baldwin and Giancarlo Esposito in this riveting tale about a decades-old murder mystery and a town struggling to overcome the ghosts of its tormented past. In the town of Julia, prejudice is still an unspoken part of life thirty years after the assassination of a beloved civil rights leader. And his son, John (Glover), has learned to live with the memory of the unsolved murder and the towns thin veneer of peace. As dissension threatens to tear the community apart, an explosive revelation forces John to act!and to choose between forgiveness and renewed hatred. ...More

New York City Serenade By Whaley, Frank Prinze, Freddie Klein, Chris 2009/03 - Starz/Sphe 0013131613896 Check Our Catalog ...More

The Reader By Daldry, Stephen 2009/04 - Weinstein Company BL05098DVD Check Our Catalog Michael Berg reflects on the formative sexual relationship he had with older woman Hanna Schmitz as a young teenager in this poignant drama set in post-World War II Germany. The passionate affair ended when Hanna disappeared. But years later, Michael learns she's on trial for horrific Nazi war crimes. ...More

Secrets of the Furious Five By 2009/03 - Paramount Home Video 0097361391748 Check Our Catalog ...More

The Spirit By Miller Frank 2009/04 - Lionsgate BL05099DVD Check Our Catalog After rookie Central City cop Denny Colt is murdered, he's mysteriously reborn as masked superhero the Spirit. Setting out to rid the streets of crime, he finds his archnemesis in the Octopus, whose quest for immortality imperils the entire city. ...More