drumFunny - percussive comedy & music humor » portsmouth sinfonia http://drumfunny.com Percussive comedy and music humor including videos, pictures, original rudiments, and other original content Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Portsmouth Sinfonia/John Williams Shreds http://drumfunny.com/2009/09/22/portsmouth-sinfoniajohn-williams-shreds/ http://drumfunny.com/2009/09/22/portsmouth-sinfoniajohn-williams-shreds/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:16:32 +0000 Chris Leone http://drumfunny.com/?p=2016

The sounds you are hearing are from the Portsmouth Sinfonia.

The Portsmouth Sinfonia was a real orchestra founded by a group of students at Portsmouth School of Art in Portsmouth, England, in 1970 — however, the Sinfonia had an unusual entrance requirement. Players had to be either non-musicians, or if a musician, play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Among the founding members was one of their teachers, English composer Gavin Bryars. The orchestra started as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble but became a cultural phenomenon over the following ten years, with concerts, record albums, a film and a hit single. They last performed publicly in 1979. [wikipedia]

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