What can you do with flattened fiddles, padless saxophones, leaky clarinets, and busted-up snares? If you’re ambitious enough, you can build an entire symphony.
In the age of Uber, Amazon Now, and hundreds of instant-access, instant-delivery services, it perhaps comes as no surprise that you can now use technology to order up a chamber ensemble to perform right in your home.
In perhaps the ultimate hipster experiment, Rufus Wainwright and 1,500 close friends (not really) sing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah together in an industrial warehouse (and it’s pretty breathtaking).