- Pat Metheny: “Now is the greatest possible time to be a musician–for Sibelius alone!”
- Sibelius helps Scarsdale students score hits for elementary orchestra
- Sibelius 7 scores Software Line of the Year award for 2011
- Tina Andersson scores Abbey Road Anthem Competition win with Sibelius
- Sibelius helps young composers’ works to the stage in Carnegie Hall
- Come and see Sibelius at The NAMM Show 2012
- John Ashton Thomas on using Sibelius to score more than 50 films
- Sondheim’s Company brought back to the stage with a little help from Sibelius
- Film composer Ryan Leach on Sibelius: “It’s so much easier than Finale”
- Electronic Musician reviews Sibelius 7: “More intuitive” and “outstanding sounds”
The Bays & The Heritage Orchestra
“As we wrote each page of music, it was pushed out to the players’ flat screens – literally seconds later”
It’s been described as the ultimate improvisation gig – a 30-piece orchestra, two composers, an electronic band, hundreds of people in the audience…and no score. Sibelius 5 was at the very heart of one of the most ambitious and inventive concerts ever staged.
“It could have all gone horribly wrong, but it didn’t. The concert was absolutely amazing. The audience and we were all blown away!” John Metcalfe is ecstatic.
Along with fellow music innovator Simon Hale, he has spent the last days preparing for a live concert that fuses together a four-piece electronic band called The Bays, the 30-piece Heritage Orchestra – consisting of brass, strings and woodwind – Jules Buckley conducting and live video mixing.
Simon Hale, practicing his high-speed
score-writing before the
event.
The only thing that wasn’t prepared was any music – the event was 100% improvised, and this wouldn’t have been possible without Sibelius 5.
“There’s no paper involved in this gig. It’s just too slow” says John. “Everything was done in Sibelius. The conductor and every player had a flat screen in front of them, and the music was routed to them, literally as myself and Simon wrote it.”
“As we wrote each page of music, it was pushed out to the players’ flat screens – literally seconds later”
How did it sound? Fantastic, according to reviews in the press. Take a look at the short video at the top of the page and judge for yourself.
