GPO Competition Works Posted! Internet Concert 3/31/05!

[Joseph Burrell]

As Posted on NS:

The winning works for the GPO Orchestration Competition are now posted!

The Winners of the Garritan Personal Orchestra Competition will have their work performed live by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and broadcast live worldwide on the internet The GPO Competition Performance & Broadcast will take place on March 31st, 2005 at 6PM GMT (1PM EST, 10am PST) You will be able to view an active media streaming link on the day of the concert.

You can listen to the winning submissions on the Composer Channel.
http://www.thecomposerchannel.com/

You can also listen on Joseph Burrell's excellent GPO Competition Player (Choose Garritan Personal Orchestra and select Top "40" in the Genre category).
http://www.gpo-uploads.com/DemoPlayer/DemoPlayer.html

The winning works are also posted at our GPO Competition page on our web site.
http://www.garritan.com/competition.html

Here is the link to the Live Broadcast on March 31st, 2005 at 6PM GMT (1PM EST, 10am PST).
http://live.atlas.cz/cze/article.asp?id ... &ts=10ec77

The page is in the Czech language and press the green "play" button. From what I understand Windows Media 9 codec is required. There will also be a broadcast link on The Composer Channel.

A virtual round of applause to the winners and please join me in recognizing their outstanding work.

Gary Garritan

Hope everyone enjoys finally hearing the 2004 GPO Competition winners and the other entries that will be on display.

Post your questions or feedback!

[Joseph Burrell]

Uhm...

Let's get some conversation started folks. I can't believe there's been nothing said about this, yet. Did I post it in the wrong place?

How do you feel about the outcome of the contest? There's a long thread going over at the GPO forum at NorthernSounds about the 'filmic' quality of most of the winning pieces as well as discussion about inclusion of original composition categories in next years contest.

The contest was to show best use of GPO in an original or un-original orchestraton. My feelings are that within the bounds of the contest the winning piece as well the runners up achieved this with great success. The winning piece showed an outstanding command of the programming in GPO as well as, IMO, a great understanding of composition. Regardless of the genre of the piece, Richard Birdsall's 'Knights and Magic' was a splendid example of what can be achieved with the library and was an oustanding composition in its own right.

Lets get some feedback and lets hear your thoughts on the winning entries.