YouTube Description: There's no such thing as a free ride.

n Japan, it’s an end-of-year tradition to sing “Ode to Joy,” the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The song is so well-known in Japan that it’s known simply as daiku, literally “number... more inside

An electric guitar player interrupts an ongoing guitar/banjo duel.

April 2012

Does not state who the performance is credited to, but it is the first movement of Company by minimalist composer Philip Glass, set to some cool imagery/ artworks. Enjoy!

The Philip Glass Ensemble in a recorded performance of Facades, written by none other than Philip Glass, the eminent minimalist composer. I was very taken with it when I first heard it on a disc about 20 years ago. Enjoy!

A performance of the famous "Flower Duet" in the opera Lakmé.

These boys are certainly getting "sold" -- and they are incredibly talented.

From YouTube: This feature, previously released on Nintendo Video worldwide, is now available in a direct-feed format! Watch how the orchestra records the main theme of Zelda.

Paul Drayton’s ‘Masterpiece’ by the 2008 lineup of British a cappella group King’s Singers. The entire history of Western classical music in about nine minutes. -broadsheet.ie

Her name is Laura. What an awesome name. ;) She does an impressive replica.

Nick Pitera sings each part of the Phantom of the Opera in this medley.

Composed 1823 Director Claudio Abbado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamunde

Where can I get a band like this?

Time lapse of flowers blooming with pretty music. Probably already sifted but oh well...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Bernard Herrmann's "Scene d'amour" from Hitchcock's "Vertigo." So awesome.