Try hot yoga! Or a nose hat!
Calgary Philharmonic Chorus has a big hit this winter – singing Tweets about how to keep warm! When I first saw it, there were 20,000 hits and that has turned into 56,459 at the time I posted this on 12/13/2011.
This from the Calgary Herald:
Shantz never expected the video — shot at the Jack Singer Concert Hall during rehearsals for the Virtuosity Festival — to explode the way it has. “Everybody wants to make a viral video these days, but I don’t think we even had that intention,” he says. “I think we just wanted to do something fun.”
More about the video from the choir website:
Normally tweets are temporary, gone in the span of minutes. Now such classic winter warm-up tweets as “Raw Bar cocktails. Hi-fi clubbing. Wine Bar down in Kensington. Try hot yoga! Calgary Flames shirts.” have been immortalized in a dramatic choral arrangement ready to be viewed by the whole world. Chorus Master Timothy Shantz arranged 20 tweets into the riveting song performed by the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus. The performance, set to the classic song O Fortuna from the cantata Carmina Burana, was recorded on Tuesday, November 29 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall and is being used to promote the last weekend of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s Virtuosity Festival.
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