Thursday, December 21, 2017

Amazon Has Its Own 80-Piece Orchestra And A Cappella Group

"'About this time last year, one of our oboists looked through our employee directory and looked through people's interests, particularly in classical musical instruments, and he just sent out this massive email, asking 'Hey, who wants to start an orchestra?'' recalls Beau Curran, a technical account manager on Amazon's digital music operations team and an oboist in the Amazon Symphony. 'The first day of rehearsal, we were really wondering whether we'd just end up with a saxophonist and a keyboardist, and that would be our orchestra.'"



Article source here:Arts Journal

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