Professional Cellist Reacts To Orchestra Memes

Text that says "MEME TIME REACTING TO CELLO/ORCHESTRA MEMES" with pictures of Cello Ben, a vector graphic of Doge, and an image of Meme Man.

Who doesn’t love a good meme? In this video, I go through a few memes that I thought were humorous/cute/interesting, and I’m hoping you feel the same way about them. This was unscripted, and I don’t have a script to the video to share, but I do hope that you’ll leave me some tips for… Continue reading →

when you have a cello audition but the committee’s running behind

A snippet of the sheet music for "MegaTron", a mash-up of many orchestral excerpts. this displays some of Ein Heldenleben, Brahms Second Piano Concerto, Brahms Second Symphony, and Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony.

This one is just for fun…I wanted to make a giant mash-up of common orchestral excerpts that are seen on many audition lists. You should never use what is in here as any sort of authoritative source. It has no bowings, virtually no dynamics, and probably some mistakes, too. But if you want to mess… Continue reading →