Getting the Orchestra Together on the Same Page

The Great Human Odyssey

**VIDEO**

Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel

It’s not easy getting everyone on the same page.

Composer Darren Fung created a magnificent musical score for the upcoming CBC series The Great Human Odyssey.

In an era when live-recorded orchestral scores are a dying breed, Fung, and filmmaker and anthropologist Niobe Thompson, brought together the Edmonton Symphony and ProCoro Canada to one of North America’s premier acoustic spaces: Edmonton’s Winspear Centre.

Over three days, 70 classical musicians and a large team of sound engineers recorded a remarkable score, capped with a sold-out public performance.  The above video, Making of a Film Score, offers an amazing insight into the orchestral and recording process.

We have walked the earth for a fraction of evolutionary time – about 200,000 years.  But in that brief window in time, we’ve colonized the planet and adapted to every one of its odd environments.  It is the great human odyssey. 

Humans are astonishing.  Thriving on every ecosystem on Earth, we seem quite at home whether its the freezing tundra, waterless deserts, remote Pacific islands, or playing a musical score in a full orchestra.