Thomas Dausgaard, conductor.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound.

Compositions for Choir a Capella.

British conductor Ian Shaw is on board as musical director.

The chorus and orchestra were recorded separately.

Most were also members of the school choir.

But what about the conductor? What can you say the conductor was doing, actually?

Something must be wrong there, yeah? But he's spreading happiness.

Belorussian born American conductor, clarinettist and saxophonist Yevgeny Dokshansky in rehearsals.

I watched tonnes of meaningless television I binge watched all the seasons of Glee.

The conductor, Lorin Maazel, who chose a program of Wagner, Dvorak, Gershwin, and Bernstein, was less cynical.

Think of it as the order of the church choir, where individual members cooperate on the basis of a shared culture and values.

What I'd like to close with then today is the first look at Sleep by Virtual Choir 2.0.

Passengers on a flight from Ecuador were in for a surprise when some of their fellow passengers the chorus of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey began to sing a capella Amanecer borincano (the Sunrise of Borinquen) as they were landing in Puerto Rico.

These robots are the kind of the intermediary between the main character, Simon Powers, and his family. There are a whole series of them, kind of like a Greek chorus.

And Fiete Hopf, the 29 year old conductor, almost rises up out of his shoes as he brings the ensemble together with his smooth, yet wild gestures.

And over in the pool, South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh has been getting compared to Glee star Matthew Morrison for years now.

The fifteen singers, aging from 23 to 69 years old, range from human geneticists to the maintenance man.

Through sponsorships donations and by no means least the funds that the choir raises across the whole of Germany, the money all adds up.

Ian Shaw as conductor and Pat Cumper as director both bring skills and expertise that we do not have here in Trinidad.

Last year, Russia's Patriarch Aleksei gave his blessing to a visit to Moscow by the Catholic girls' choir of the Saint Danilov monastery. Soon after, and more importantly, the Patriarch raised the level of Orthodoxy's representation at an ecumenical prayer called by Pope John Paul II in Assisi on January 24 th .

Last year, Russia's Patriarch Aleksei gave his blessing to a visit to Moscow by the Catholic girls' choir of the Saint Danilov monastery.

For an 8,733 kilometre flight away from Heidelberg, in the north west of the Swaziland Kingdom, lies the village of Esitjeni, which relies on the vocal power of the German choir.

(BTW, Scottie and I have never met only met once in the real world , unlike 99 of the Virtual Choir, whom I ve never met ).

For the virtual choir, 128 people representing 12 different countries including Argentina, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore and Spain sent in the 243 tracks that compose the choral piece Lux Aurumque that Scott Haines once again helped produce.

In How We Did It he explains not only the process for the last iteration of his project but also the preceding experiments in conforming a virtual choir.

Two years ago, on this very stage, we premiered Virtual Choir 2, 2,052 singers from 58 different countries, this time performing a piece that I had written called Sleep.

One of the choir singers worked for a transportation company and offered to fill a few containers with materials that we collected from hospitals, schools and companies in Alsace and send them to Guinea.

Three years ago he got a letter signed by all 700 employees of La Scala, musical employees, I mean the musicians, saying, You're a great conductor. We don't want to work with you. Please resign.

It will be a world premiere of a piece in which child and adult choirs, rock, pop and jazz bands are all expected to come together in unison in their interpretation of music from Frank Zappa, Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd, and Tijuana No.

Om'Obani is by no means a simple piece, with each voice having a different text, and in an extremely foreign language at that Zulu, which is spoken by eleven million people in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and in parts of Swaziland.