I will watch this on lonely nights at sea, when all seems far away and dreary, and I will smile every time.

No one: Tantacrul: *Play it dirty for me mister sax man*

"I thought it'd be an outer-space, cowboy bebop, lonely, out-in-space thing..." "...How Gershwin of you."

Imagine u in this orchestra, just getting a random piece from the conductor titled, “I guess I have to name it now, lol” 24:17

Outer-Space Cowboy Bebop Lonely Jazz-In-Space is my favorite music genre

Just a shout out to the great editing of this video. There were so many more threads to pull together this time around but the flow was still brilliant. A pure joy to be a part of :)

I love how most people didn’t react to hearing their own themes in someone else’s piece, but hearing Tantacrul’s theme in any context prompted TANTACRUUUUUUUUL

Great job to all of you, and David for putting this massive project together!! Sorry I had to back out of this one! :)

I like that Bec picked to do Adam's theme too bc she was a fan lol

I want Ben to finish his little piece so bad. It could be very cool song.

David: gives a theme in 5/4 Adam: gives a piece in 7/8

Timestamps for anyone who wants to listen back to pieces: 10:03 - Tantacrul's piece, Tantatheme 14:34 - Ben Levin's piece, Approaching The Astro Fair 20:10 - Bec Plexus' piece, Cutting In Line 24:17 - Adam Neely's piece, i guess i have to name this now, lol 28:00 - David Bruce's piece, Swan Themes

Big hand for David for organising this epic endeavour! So generous and fun.

Loved this! A jazz big band one would be fantastic for a next step.

Adam: "RAW! RAW!" Ben: "IIII'm nervous again.."

As Ben Levin said last time: "I can hear the funk in you David Bruce." The same applies this time, too.

Man Ben's piece hit me in the soul. I love how the intro portrays that loneliness only because we know there is a full orchestra there. What a genius choice. Then it builds so nicely with the strings. I wish there was more!

its crazy how this serie revealed the talent of ben to me

“When am I gonna learn to let go and not care so much?” We all felt that.

To my ears David's piece sounds very much like it was written by someone used to writing for orchestra and it just gets on with being a piece of music, whereas the others are like, someone gave me an ORCHESTRA! :-)

15:07 The lick but with an octave shift in the middle

God I could listen to that Ben Levin melody for the rest of my life

For those who have trouble counting along with the songs: 3/4: Strawberry 5/4: Hippopotamus 6/8: Pineapple Pineapple 7/8: Epstein didn't kill himself

Ben Levin's rambly comments are the soul of this series.

“It’s got a Stravinsky vibe” “It’s kind of French, like something Satie would write” “It’s like a starfish with a ruby in the middle - a Pokemon” 😂😂😂

man this is such a cool series :)

I love this series but it's also bittersweet due to how short all of the pieces have to be, it's like getting a teaser for something that fell through the cracks and will never see the light of day in a completed form. Ben's particularly hurt, it's like the start to a beautiful 5-10 minute epic that just abruptly cuts out after the intro. What if that could have been a new favorite song? How can we continue through life with this burden of unfulfilled dreams?! Anyway, thanks for the existential anguish. Can't wait to see what happens next time.

*I VOTE FOR 1 MINUTE ARIAS!* like, each composer gets an emotion picked out of a hat or something :D

Wow might sound strange but I want to give a thank you to everyone involved in this piece. I know it probably doesn't mean much coming from an anonymous KZfaq comment but thank you so much for taking your time to make content like this all of you. It was fantastic. Great to be introduced to Bec as well!

This was so inspiring. I liked every piece in their own way. I wish Ben's was longer. It was so, so, so good, but so short.

I love how you can just hear when people are dutch on the internet.

Ben's staryu analogy is probably the cutest in thing I've ever heard

The "Tantacrul" motif just makes me think of The Incredibles

everyone else: ok we made it easy enough for them to play but still interesting adam: *so...*

Ben's was just my favorite. The restraint in the beginning with everything swelling/ blooming made the whole thing so satisfying to listen to. I'm not super well versed with all the abstract abilities that music has. I'm pretty basic. I have to bust out my intellectual cap to appreciate the other pieces, but if I just wanted to listen to something and feel something emotionally, I'd go back and listen to Ben's.

Bec's piece had a very Stravinsky-esque feel that surprised me, dang Edit: oh Tantacrul said the same thing that's cool

Up next : Writing for a jazz big band. Lovely series David.

I really enjoyed Ben Levin's piece, really cool.

I love how Ben's theme is basically a tritone, but he made it sound sooo sweet!

finally after so many years know what the German exchange student meant by H chord xD

The look on the orchestra's faces makes me think they needed a little more time to get comfortable with Adam Neely's "Adam chords" as Tantacrul refers to them. I wish would could have gotten some comments from the conductor on what she thought about the works.

composers of the world, unite!

Would love to see y'all write something up for maybe the Chinese orchestra or traditional Chinese instruments, to see y'all get out of your comfort zones!

Ben Levin's is my favorite. It's the most emotional piece. It's full of human emotion. But I loved David's almost as much as Ben's, for completely different reasons. I guess that I have a sweet spot for Leonard Bernstein's more abstract passages in WEST SIDE STORY... and that's what it came to mind listening to that beautiful blend of Latin rhythms with jazzy harmonies. Excellent job.

Ben definitely wins the thumbnail. I think that terrifying perm comes in second all on its own.

So, I'm REALLY wondering what Orchestra of the Swan thought about these pieces, and whether they performed them that night.

Since this series was inspired by Andrew Huang's series, I'd love to see a future video include Andrew as one of the composers. Granted, Andrew is more of a producer than a composer, but he is such a skilled musician I'm sure he'd be up for the task. Maybe he could get a little extra help arranging his score. Or maybe do composer teams for a future video? Andrew Huang and Grant Stinnett would complement each other well on a team challenge, Grant bringing to the table the orchestral arranging perspective.

You separated "Cowboy" and "Bebop", but I'm almost certain he was referring to the anime Cowboy Bebop.

8:30 This discussion about making it entertaining made it quite entertaining.

People complain that orchestras sometimes only have 3-4 Rehearsels for a popular peace, and here they get 10 minutes...

Ben's piece actually gave me chills, I swear my eyes watered a little bit

Tantacrul just smashed it. Every piece was great, but man, Tantacrul. So tight.

I'm so damn impressed with this! Music is mostly very barely accessible to me because of my hearing issues and just strange psychology (kinda afraid to listen to new stuff because I'm scared of missing something out), but here am I on a Friday evening, exhausted AF and still I found this very much enjoyable! I honestly have no idea how y'all do it. Maybe it's the way you illustrate your themes - no way I could've heard them without visual guidance, but this is such a great aid I literally have no words! And while you say this is less accessible than the previous one, somehow I disagree. Maybe it's my love of progressive metal (& rock) helping me to open up to different ideas, but the very way these pieces are presented helps a lot. Please keep doing that! Please please please!

"You can always count on Adam to make something badass" - Ben Levin

Adam wins the "Best Name" category, hands down

Worlds collide! My old teacher plays (mostly) timpani for this orchestra, and another old teacher is in the percussion section! Great stuff David!

I love how their "Avengers" theme is just Mars but metal

Wow, the premiere of this video was such a happy, wholesome experience! Love this online music fam!

This series just proves that David is an orchestration god.

There's not enough gushing over how much of a musical genius Ben Levin is in this video. I keep coming back to this video just to manually loop his piece and the reactions. That emotion-first design approach he has to composing yields incredible results.

My favourite this time was Ben Levin, gave me goosebumps, and was just the kind of smooth and easy listening I needed while I'm not feeling well, the others a bit grating and overwhelming for me right now.

I think it would be cool if y’all did this for wind ensemble next

To me, Tantacrul's sounded like a superhero type theme, which is a big "duh" because that's what he was going for. Ben's sounded a lot like the ending to a noir-type drama, so I felt like the length was pretty awesome. Bec's sounded like a smaller movement in-between two larger movements of a symphony, and I really felt it having more to tell and more it already had told. I've settled on Adam's sounding like the opening to a cop/spy drama (could also be a comedic drama). David's is a bit more ambiguous, sitting between the opening of an action rpg reminiscent of Kirby and some kind of informative TV show (a travel show sticks out to me the strongest). I'd love to analyze these pieces more to help justify why my brain associates them to these specific subgenres of music, but I'm just proud of the work everyone put in to have something done in such a short deadline. Composing is a tough job, and this is all very inspiring (as was using the old name method for forming musical ideas, which I will gladly exploit asap).

I adore this video, David! Keep up the brilliant work. For those who wish to go back through the pieces and additional sections, here you go: Tantacrul's "Tantatheme" Explanation of Piece: 8:58 Orchestral Playing: 10:06 Reaction: 11:12 Ben Levin's "Approaching the Astro Fair" Explanation of Piece: 13:32 Orchestral Playing: 14:34 Reaction: 15:40 Bec Plexus's "Cutting in Line" Explanation of Piece: 18:37 Orchestral Playing: 20:10 Reaction: 21:12 Adam Neely's "i guess i have to name it now, lol" Explanation of Piece: 23:17 Orchestral Playing: 24:17 Reaction: 25:13 David Bruce's "Swan Themes" Explanation of Piece: 27:33 Orchestral Playing: 28:01 Reaction: 29:10

I’m at work just smiling the whole time with ear buds in

Outer-space cowboy bebop lonely jazz-in-space... Ben just described my favourite music... Everyone did such an amazing job

ben is just an absolute unit. i swear, he just does his own thing and does it perfectly and it comes out amazing and i love it. the 1 minute didn't do him justice. i loved it

Just a suggestion. Ben Levin should make it a full song. Please Ben.

ben's piece is so sensual

That glissando in Adam's piece was wanderful, but my favorite was once again Ben Levin's piece He surprises me everytime

All of the pieces are spectacular. Adam's in particular reminds me of the score for The Incredibles, and I think Ben absolutely nailed the feel he was going for.

15:22 that's my old drum teacher!! small world. also, please keep doing these, they're suuuper inspiring!

David's piece put me in mind of La Valse. What you have with this exercise is 5 distinct pieces, each of which has to start, develop and finish within one minute. Would be fascinating if you could do a sort of 'pass-the-parcel' development, where the 2nd composer picks up where the first left off, develops it further, and so on.

The orchestra's conductor has some SERIOUSLY EPIC ENERGY holy crap!

I actually had the great opportunity to play with a few members from Orchestra of the Swan a couple of times! Coventry University holds a yearly collaborative event called Mixup and i was a part of it during all three years of my studies there. David LePage is a phenominal violinist and an absolute pleasure to perform with!

Next Video Idea: 5 COMPOSERS 1 LIBRETTO

What an incredible project. Hats off to David, the orchestra, the production crew and especially to the composers. An interesting and enlightening way to spend 33':45" of one's life: totally worth it, thank you to all 💞

I was really really hoping for a new 5 Composers 1 Theme video! It was so great! My personal favorite is Tantacrul's piece, although you could kind of guess the direction he would go based on the theme (he and the orchestra nailed it though). I also love Ben's writing too, but I ended up being very frustrated that it stopped after a minute or so. Adam and Bec parts are unnecessarily too busy and overly complicated for my taste, especially considering that the orchestra only had little time to deliver. David is the boss. Challenge idea/request: instead of 5 independent pieces, the challenge would be to sequence them one after the other with each composer in charge the transition to their piece. Here, Ben would have had to pick up where Tantacrul's piece ended and manage a smooth transition to his piece, etc.

2:31 I see you Mr. Horn playing that Tchaikovsky 5 solo

I gotta say Ben's sounded like a TV show theme, the kind that gets you excited and sets the mood for the show

o: Bec is so cute! But like, not as an euphemism of attractive or whatever, she really just has something about her that suggests joy and affection.

I love how you can always see the timpani player counting out loud

ben's piece is like the epitome of sweet loneliness, you dont realize how lonely you are until you think about it, and then comes the tears at the end

Obviously Tantacrul went on wisest path. Keep it simple. Don't strain players. In just few minutes without thorough rehearsal (s) that many people in orchestra have very little chance of comprehending complicated rhythmical constructions and execute it well in synchronised manner. I like to listen to outtakes of Star Wars main theme I've got. First takes were complete mess, and the thing started to sound as we love it after like twenty takes! Adam and Bruce. Appreciation for ambitious approach. I can only imagine how differently it would sound after many rehersals and thouthfully mastered interpretation.

ben levin u just killed it like last time incredible

I want to see the orchestra’s reaction to playing Ben’s piece for the first time. Must’ve been awesome.

This is amazing, David. Just breathtaking of an endeavour. Great pieces by all, my favourite was Bec's, but Ben annotating "dirty" on the sheets was the best part.

To quote Count Basie: "leave them wanting more."

that sax solo was so good. i can easily see ben's song being the theme throughout a sci-fi space movie and this specific version being played when the main character is lost in space during the climax or something. 14:34

I love Ben's piece. Would have been interesting to also hear some reactions of the orchestra musicians.

Do you ever feel bad for liking someone's work so much that you go into a video featuring them, hoping you won't like their piece the best, but then of course they blow you away yet again? Ben, you're a blessing to this planet.

I would like to hear a Cowboy Bebop soundtrack composed by Ben !

A cycle of five one minute operas. Now that's a gesamtkunstwerk that I can get behind!

I aggressively love this series. Everyone involved is phenomenal!

Ben Levin's piece "Approaching the Astro Fair" is really aptly titled, like a grisly character limping, dirty sneakers against grit and mudwater of an illegal astro blackmarket held somewhere behind thick toxic fumes. The corners of neon lights, an elegant wiremesh of vintage and modern machinery, scrapped from various sources over time. Off-kilter, lonely, haunting... a man out of place, out of time, with strange motivations and a sense of danger, tension. Amazing how you nailed such an evocative atmosphere with texture, Ben!

"My girlfriend and I" Thank u you just made my day 🥰

Next one for choir! I'd love to see that!

Oh my god this channel is so underrated! Please keep making videos!

Approaching the Astro fair gives me chills every time. Hits the loneliness and the sci fi visualization is very vivid with this piece. Wish there was a whole soundtrack like this.

Thanks a lot for this - this was such fun to watch - loved every minute of it.