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Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:28 pm

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.

*Gary is also looking into recording the show for those not able to watch during the performance. More information on this soon.*

Post your questions or feedback!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:43 am

I've downloaded a bunch of them, but have quite a large spool of things to hear before I'll get to them. I'm definitely looking forward to it because I sense the level of composition will be good. Many thanks for the link.

Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:50 am

Well definitely check out Richard Birdsall's piece (the winner) and Kentaro Sato's piece (a runner up.) These are simply amazing to me. I can't wait to hear the live versions of these. Man I hope the recording goes through since I have to slave all day.

Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:45 pm

Daylight saving went into effect a week earlier in the Czech Republic than in the USA.

The time is still the same in Europe - 7 PM (Czech, Germany), 96 PM GMT (UK).

For the USA the revised time is 12 noon EST (East Coast), and 9am PST (West coast).

Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:52 am

For those of you that missed the performance, here are some links to audio only mp3's of the winning entries:

http://www.gpo-uploads.com/Contest/Rich ... l_Live.MP3
http://www.gpo-uploads.com/Contest/Kent ... o_Live.MP3
http://www.gpo-uploads.com/Contest/Crai ... s_Live.MP3
http://www.gpo-uploads.com/Contest/Will ... n_Live.MP3

There is some noise in these due to the nature of the recording.

Enjoy! Compare these to the originals and post your thoughts. Look for a re-broadcast of the original performance soon!

Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:15 am

(Not that you folks seem to give a rat's arse

) But here's a link to the video from the concert. You'll need a pretty decent connection to get the full effect, but it's worth it.

There's been talk of a DVD as well.

http://live.atlas.cz/cze/article.asp?id ... 9&ts=3ec10

z15 · Post by **z15** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:24 am

thanks for those live mp3s, i've actually been looking for them since i missed the webcast. pretty excited to hear how the songs sound when played by a real orchestra - the top entries were pretty damn good.

i don't know about the video, though... if it stays online for long enough, i might have a look at some point

still, thanks for the link.

Joseph Burrell · Post by **Joseph Burrell** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:32 pm

You should watch the video. The orchestra really got into some of those pieces. I really wish I could have been there to see it. Of course, video is the next best thing. Check it out if you can. I'm not sure how long the link will be up. I'm going to look at getting it in some form of downloadable (as opposed to streaming) format on a permanent server.

I'm just glad I'm not talking to myself in this thread.

GPO Competition Winning Demos: Internet Concert 3/31/05!