Interesting Youtube Links
The Sound of Music
Flashmob, Central Station, Antwerp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
“The Hills are Alive” – opening scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fH2FOn1V5g
Doh-a-deer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjobdArtiA
The Lonely Goatherd – with Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vtq9t08ktU
Smile – by Charlie Chaplin
Michael Jackson’s cover of Smile – with Chaplin video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
Glee cover of Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzF1Yh1Xc
Nat King Cole cover of Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8oLGBNXpE
Colonel Bogey
Army musicians flashmob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1GJtFULzyQ
Bridge over the River Kwai March by Malcolm Arnold
(with Colonel Bogey countermelody)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8F8g1-4Uw
The ‘Colonel Bogey’ clip from the film Bridge over the River Kwai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bmsluWHZc
When you wish upon a star
When you wish upon a star (opening titles from the 1940 film – Pinocchio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pguMUFyJ3_U
When you wish upon a star (with lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LQlWh8AT0
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
‘Flying Over Africa’ – from the film Out of Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKlA15b0Unc
Clarinet Concerto – Mozart –with stills of beautiful African landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCFiMOWpCw
Julian Bliss plays the complete Mozart Clarinet Concerto at the BBC Proms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd7-ZvMx1fE
The Force of Destiny Overture – Giuseppe Verdi
Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (very good close-ups shots of the instruments) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxOV5_YCh4
Toscanini Conducts – 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JQvyg3kJ54
New Years Concert In St Petersbourg (Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Theater 2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHk1RmPzA5E
Theme as used in ‘Jean de Florette’
(played on harmonica – arr. by Jean-Claude Petit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PaNvpCVcVA
Trailer (in English) from the French Film Jean de Florette
(music inspired by The Force of Destiny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuF4rtqfYDs
Excerpt (in French) from the Film Jean de Florette (music inspired by The Force of Destiny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44E_YanQsg
Star Wars
Star Wars IV – Final Scene in the Throne Room.
(Try it with and without the music!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixG8pfncOs
Star Wars Original Trilogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWYYzVngM
Titanic
Sissel sings the Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMh_P9zfdU&list=RD6olT7KtH-iw&index=3
Nearer my God to Thee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEfqj9pDAI
Schindler’s List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsAR9Sx-JQ
Itzhak Perlman plays music from the film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDWPsAR9Sx-JQ&v=ZLCCnIKQyFI
General Links for Instruments of the Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XepozFRbQ
Additional Youtube Links for Post-Primary
The Lonely Goatherd in the style of Bach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHuBurUlpXM
Gwen Stefani – Wind it up (samples The Lonely Goatherd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sY-TsLXiDo
Written with Pharell Williams for a fashion show launching her own label. The Sound of Music was her favourite film …
40th Year Re-union on ABC Television (USA) of The Sound of Music cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFC704wI0
Channel 4 News on the death of the last member of the real Von Trapp Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgrpgXyqFs
The original Von Trapp family settled in America, where they still run an Alpine-style Lodge in Vermont.
Actor Dudley Moore improvises on Colonel Bogey – a la Beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3hq4G1iHs
