“With Symphony Hall closed for concerts, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has taken its music to the internet and the outdoors,” reports Bill Liss in Monday’s (11/2) 11Alive/WXIA-TV (Atlanta). “But now it’s going a step further. The orchestra calls it ‘The Great Atlanta Play-A-Long.’ … They got the word out and asked for audition tapes to put together a special video montage performance of ‘Ode to Joy.’ ‘Whatever instrument you can play, it counts and you should send it in,’ said K.C. Commander, who heads the ASO’s digital content. … Before long the symphony was in for quite a surprise. ‘We did not think we were going to get past 100 to 200, let alone almost 800,’ Commander said…. ‘At this time when it is so hard to make connections simply because of all the distancing, we can use music as a way of bringing everyone together,’ said Jerry Hou, ASO assistant conductor and music director of the youth orchestra.… The video [will be] posted on the Atlanta Symphony website between Thanksgiving and Christmas…. The symphony said it plans to do a series of montage videos early next year to highlight as many of the 780 musicians who sent in audition tapes as possible.”
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