David Eldridge; this what you have done should make you feel proud of you. Congratulations!!

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She actually didn't die. Her spirit go on living forever. You'll get to see her again someday.

So sorry for your loss

Much love, my friend

EPIC MOMENTS The very best KZfaq comment ever. Thanks!

AGREED!!! The world would be a much better place! :)

oh yes , out off stupid going !

Epic Moments-- I agree with jwphoto. I would love to see it in small towns and villages too. Music is the great equalizer. "And hath charms to soothe the savage beast."

It should happen everywhere in the world, every hour.

Это замечательно..- по нужде и сердцу-...

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Ich auch! ❤

Que hermosísimo, todo un deleite ❤

Ich auch

I could give my left hand to hear this live on there.. amazing!

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​@@Pedro79_you need your left hand !!! Don't say anything about everything !!!! That's ridiculous

Fantastici

Try keeping an eye on the forums and websites of the artistic and organizational groups in your area. And I don't just mean colleges and universities; You'll get word ahead of time...

end it then ?

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Me too

Most people never encounter them not even on KZfaq stop complaining and Count yourself blessed to be able to enjoy it in this way

+Tony Nguyen hahahahaha just a freak comment, I love it XD

+Tony Nguyen totallyl i would be like "darling, gimme my sword and helmet, i have bill to pay"

+Tony Nguyen totallyl i would be like "darling, gimme my sword and helmet, i have bill to pay"

+Tony Nguyen I would turn myself around for looking if there are somewhere near the Knights of the Round :D

+Tony Nguyen I'd probably take a minute to appreciate it, then join it. Performed it back in '95! lol

Sehr hübsch, vender schöen.

I'm sure the cleaning person is not so happy XD

Cornelia Li, that was my thought too. The singing was superb, and the music and dancers. Nothing else was needed.

What freedom is that ? Is it the freedom to annoy others trying to go about their business by making so much noise?

@@petereiso5415 Well, you have the freedom to leave and leave us alone enjoying it.

@@petereiso5415 - YES

@@uuxxuu5002 I ask a question you jump right my throat. Are you by any chance from the US?

@@petereiso5415 No.

Rocco Sisto Smart comment...

The Wheel of Fortune.

You think 🙄

You're talking about Corona, or about the total destruction of our environment?

Fortuna imperatrix mundi

".....Flash mobs are one of the rare evolutionary social movements of the 2000s that are totally healing, and always a net positive for society....." MUSICAL flashmobs, yes, definitely. But there are also criminal flashmobs coordinated by cellphones, in which a whole neighborhood of bad kids go into one store - then all shoplift stuff, run out simultaneously, and beat up anyone who tries to stop them. Those are not positive. Not at all.

+Sharath SH greets from Vienna ;D

tell me what they are singing

"O fortuna"

thx

barbara barbara

Especially such a powerful piece

Somehow it always makes me very emotional

I truly hope that the events return once Covid is declared no longer a pandemic. The years we’ve spent worried, unable to fully participate in large groups, have had a toll on many. Flash mobs have many benefits for the groups (often young talented musicians who learn precision & additional timing, from this style & get exposure to performing for large crowds, the hours planning & rehearsing build cooperation, highlight some but usually all the performers, building trust & I imagine they are fun & then exciting & satisfactions of a job well done & much more I am sure). The film crew, the editors who often also are young & learning are gaining great experiences. Rarely do members of the public not stop to witness some or all of the performance - reminding us to take time to enjoy life amid the hustle & bustle. The joy is always evident. Often voices join in or people dance. Over all a very positive experience, all round. Can you tell that I am a huge fan? This mob was exceptional, thanks for sharing their performance with the world.

I truly hope that the events return once Covid is no longer a pandemic. The years many have spent worried, unable to fully participate in large groups, have had a toll on some. These surprise events I imagine have many benefits for the groups (often young talented musicians who learn precision & additional timing, from this style & get exposure to performing for large crowds, the hours planning & rehearsing build cooperation, highlight some but usually all the performers, building trust & I imagine they are fun & then exciting & all must feel the satisfaction of a job well done & much more I am sure). The film crew, the editors who often also are young & learning are gaining great experiences. Rarely do members of the public not stop to witness some or all of the performance - reminding us to take time to enjoy life amid the hustle & bustle. The joy is always evident. Often voices join in or people dance. Over all a very positive experience, all round. Can you tell that I am a huge fan? This mob was exceptional, thanks for sharing their performance with the world.

Played an arrangement of it with my high school's wind ensemble several years ago--can definitely agree with it being something special!

Nice event to remember.

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Ha, I thought that was the city they were in hahaha

Carmina Burana are a series of compositions made by Carl Orff based on the poems of the Codex Burana.

@@TruckTaxiMoveIt the city is Vienna, austria 😊

me too

+twangya And that is how the poem ends, "mecum omnes plangite!" means- "everyone cry with me".

+Chinmoy Kanjilal goosebumps

Me too

yeah right..

Grandios!!

I always think... what a joy it must be to pick up or sit down with an instrument & coax such lovely sounds from them. Even a wonderful singer... just to open their mouth & elicit that beauty. How Marvelous! We are so blessed to have the writers of this fine music & talented performers who bring it to us.

Deepest condolences !

Tom thanks for let us know that social and private impact of the music. It's a true that usually runs away and we loss a way to share.

So very sorry for your loss.

I cannot fathom a heartbreak or an injustice any greater than what you suffered. On some level, I feel I know how this could speak to you. Sending all my love from Niagara Falls/Buffalo NY USA

I believe that your daughter sent you this wonderful piece of music to let you know she is alright and that she loves you and wishes to be able to console you.

I kinda missed the bass drum and gong. But that might have given a few heart attacks in this situation. I even thought the tympanist was holding back a bit to avoid overwhelming a 'lay' audience with the massive percussivosity of his regular performance level.

Well you do know that playing music is fun...

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Music should by definition be selfless. Only in a world this shitty we marvel at this. Music should be enjoyed everywhere and all the time for free. We as a species have decided that anything worthwile is not free

how dare they ,,,,=^..^=,,,,

Agree with other commenters. Unfortunately I stopped performing a couple of years before the advent of flashmobs, but I so wish I could participate as either performer or audience in one of these. In our "community band" we once or twice invited audience members to sit inside the group to experience the music from our perspective and everyone seemed to love it. I doubt any of the performers in this video felt "selfless" in the least. It is a great feeling to show people, especially kids, the feelings of power and satisfaction derived from performing a piece like this on real live wind and percussion instruments, not synthesizers, drum machines and autotuned voices.

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W Canaday. And that’s the truth and nothing but the truth. Let music inspire our dreams and future, not our fears.

I'd like to add to your comment ..".You are obligated to share that moment of exhilaration with others." Actively show others that joy in your daily life". Find ways to add something incredibly simple with others. "Say Hello, Smile,and do it as a committed act! Do it from your heart!"

@@cookingprof And SMILE!

I don't feel there is anything ordinary about these people. It takes a certain level of talent and professionalism to be able to pull this off. I've done this piece before and the harmony alone is enough to give most singers nightmares.

Well in fact these people are professionals ;) It was a flashmob live act of the singers of the "Volksoper" in Vienna.

naaah, m8, it's extremely hard work, fueled by passion

Yes, I have tears in my eyes.

Me toooo 💓

yes, me also

Buy a ticket for any concert near you! You've the Italian flag as pic so dont tell me you've no occasion to do so in Italia, you guys have such amazing orchestras!

Come to my concert in september in Rapperswil, Switzerland! I'll be singing in the choir the second time in my life, the lucky bastard I am :D

Not to nitpick but... And I could be wrong, not being a vocalist... But I don't think they're songs. They're sections or movements of a secular oratorio. But yeah, I know the whole setting is a bunch of people in a tavern singing songs; many of them drunken songs. So while I shudder violently every time someone comments "yeah dude, we're totally playing this song in band" when referring to a piece of classical/serious music, if one can ever be forgiven for calling a piece of serious music a song, I suppose this is the occasion.

@@phthartic What. Ever. Dude. Just enjoy the damned thing.

I would love it to be. Sadly it's dubbed. There are orchestral reasons why what you're seeing isn't what you're hearing but I won't bore you with them. It's still a great video so . . . So what.

Because is doesn't happen in bars and clubs.

It dosnt happen at the dog park.

Maybe you should contact High School, ,University Choirs, Church Choirs, in your area. These are artists that don't EVER get enough exposure. See if you can get them to be as one for a local charity.

Be the catalyst. Sing something from a great Broadway Show. I'm a Roman Catholic with less than a great voice in community theater that has had the role of : "Tevie". Our " Goldie" was , "Episcopalian". Our Yente was, "Methodist"; ….Yet we all embrace the amazing stories of : Sholom Aleichem. Embrace the common thread of cultural struggle.

Cooking if you had heard my "singing" voice you would never make such a suggestion. Iused to have a lovely voice then puberty hit, now it could be used as a form of torture :-)

+Jim Baerg Shades of Carol Burnett!

No , cleaners wouldn't do that now days , they could be sued for destroying " a piece of art " .qz.com/535482/italian-museum-cleaners-mistook-a-contemporary-art-piece-for-trash/ 😬

Thank the composers and miraculous minds who created and performed the music.

Carl Orff, long dead composer from Munich, Bavaria, though world famous for the lst fifty years, I knew him in the sixties, when I was a child, go look him up in wikipedia everybody. Camina Burana made me cry with joy even then, it's perfect for a mob, only the sound was very much like playback, maybe not in life but on the video. The accoustic circumstances in a railway station may be okay for a mob,but not a recording. Love it anyway

That's exactly what I though… :)

No god required.

andrew holgate i just love how uncomfortable people get when someone next to them starts singing 😂

Kannst azch auf Deutsch schreiben😂 OBB = Österreichische Bundes Bahn

genau war doch in Süddeutschland ;)

Wow, that sounds cool. Is there a video of that on KZfaq? And in what Chinese language did you sing? Mandarin?

This one and the Beethoven flashmob Ode an die Freude

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wasn't that already the Background music when the BigBang Happened?

Bravissimo+++++!!!! My dear!!!

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Breathtaking

Wow. Just spectacular.

these sorts of things never happen when im out and about. how can one find out when/where they will occur such that i might experience one?

That was great! Must have been epic with the acoustics of an airport.

merveilleuse initiative bravo ❗merci 🎄🕯️❤️🇬🇷

It would be mine, too! You're very lucky!

Me too!!

me too

Actually Bahnhof ist train station, airport is Flughafen. 😉 And well, you don't have the chance to see a cool flashmob like this everyday!! 😀

@@nn-ro1lv 99.999% so-called "spontaneous" flash-mobs are either advertising (usually for events) or official publicity (in this case OeBB 'celebrating' the end of refurbishment work at Wien Westbahnhof). They take too much work to organise to be something that people put on just for the fun of it. There are no "pure" flashmobs, they're all publicity or advertising in some form, so forget about why it's being done and just enjoy it. :)

Could someone please tell me if the original piece had these prolonged notes by the three sopranos? My three years old grand daughters asked me why the sopranos kept singing the same long notes yesterday..I wish I could answer.. and wish to know if that part was in the original composition？

It is also the final movement, which follows the sopranos' piece. There's one brief movement in between, a solo soprano, but most people won't notice.

Watch out for those lyrics, though.

It's part (roughly the second half) of movement 15 Amor volat undique, followed by part (the intro and the last of the three verses) of O Fortuna. As has been stated, O Fortuna is both the first movement and the last (25th). I'm not sure what "brief movement in between" Larry was thinking of -- perhaps 23 Dulcissime? At any rate there are nine movements in between, not just one.

I ADORE this piece. I too often listen to it with closed eyes and open soul.

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Pmpodipom

Ich auch! DRINGEND!!

The timpanist is the guy.

Хорошо там, где нас нет!

+Charles Rosenburg If you have never heard Carmina Burana before, I hope you have made up for it now. I have been listening to it for more than half my life. Wonderful! If you're looking for the best version, and there are a lot, try the Deutsche Grammophon version with Dietrich Fischer-Diskau singing baritone. The best by far in my humble opinion.

+Charles Rosenburg This was sort of a medley of the overall work of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, his version an expansion on the earlier religious texts and poems by the same name. Where the timpani hits and they belt it out is O Fortuna (Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) [Oh, Fortune (Fortune, Ruler of the World)]. The version they sang here is a mix of all three verses and goes: O Fortuna Velut luna Statu variabilis [...] Sors immanis et inanis [...] michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite! O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable. [...] Fate - monstrous and empty [...] and virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man, everyone weep with me!

Thank you. this was certainly an attention grabber. Must give time to listen to the entire piece.

+Charles Rosenburg It's a well-known piece of oratorio. My favorite use of it is in the 1981 Arthurian epic film EXCALIBUR, directed by John Boorman. They use it during the knights' quest for the Holy Grail.

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I wonder if the janitors were smiling after that performance...🧹😀