I have a very good friend who played doublebass in the new world symphony when MTT conducted it and he said that playing for him is very relaxed and exciting.

MTT has been a part of my life for decades. Thank you Michael.

That...and jump out of my chair with joy!

You have to understand that this was not cut life. It would be extremely difficult to do this as we say in production "on the fly“. This video was cut in post and it should simply be seen as a good editing job. In the timeline of the NLE all VIDEO tracks are aligned of each camera angle and then cut according to the music. Not an extremely difficult job but a great editing job though.

@@TelevisionCrewsthanks! I always thought there were an orchestra director beside camera director!

​@@fbtaayudaThere was definitely a video production director also. But his function was not to cut it live in this particular case. This video was never broadcasted live so it was not cut live. The video director`s function was to make sure each camera person got the correct framing, and there was also a person in charge of the video switcher cutting it roughly but cameras were rolling ISO just to make sure the final edited video was fine tuned precisely to fit each instrument shot in perfect sync with the soundtrack during the editing process. And the video director / producer was (were) also in charge to supervise the editing process. There are indeed other music presentations which are broadcast and produce d life. But you will notice that when they switch it live it is not possible to do it so precisely. They can come close but not as precise as in the video here with so many instruments to cover.

​@@fbtaayudaOne more thing. It is very likely that the performance you see in this video never really took place in just one take. How is that possible? Well, they may have decided to just record the soundtrack. And then, record each each instrument separately just for editing possible. Then in editing they put the whole video together. To accomplish this, first they record the whole video and audio in a master shot. The master shot would be a wide shot of the whole band possible done in two or three different camera angles. No medium shots, zooms or close ups. Then, they proceed to record each instrument separately with medium and mostly close up shots. Then in editing the whole video is assembled together and then it appears as the performance would have happened in real time when in reality, there were several “takes“ with the band performing for each specific shot as previously scripted. It is basically like putting together a puzzle in the editing process. Why do it that way? Because that way the video shows each musician and its instrument matching the soundtrack perfectly. This leaves no room for any type of mistake.

@Steven Moore Right! The initial Theme is missing.