The Passion of Teamwork

     For the King's birthday, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam performed via synchronized videos.  It expressed dedication, teamwork, passion, cohesion, and technology.  For America's "birthday" on July 4, none of the televised ceremonies included any effort by America's orchestras to do something similar.  Every TV channel merely reused recordings from previous years.  It would've been immensely better to see something like the Dutch did... even for one song.  Alas, Americans were either not coordinated or interested.  

That performance was almost magical.  

Such effort makes the world better.

*In August, I saw a jointly-made video of a summery mambo performed by different branches of the Dutch armed forces. Below are members of each military division, providing different instruments to the song.

The Royal Netherlands Marechausee 





Fanfare "Mounted Weapons" of the Royal Netherlands Army






The Military Band of the Royal Netherlands Army






Royal Netherlands Air Force Orchestra





National Reserve Corps Fanfare of the Army








Grenadiers and Rifles Guard of the Army




Rotterdam Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy




Watch the video online and appreciate the technological teamwork to synchronize the song.


This kind of coordination/effort is immensely admirable.