Barking dogs star in a Leopold Mozart symphony in Denmark
Barking on command as a live orchestra plays Leopold Mozart's "Hunting Symphony" -- that's the job Cookie, Sophus and Sica are tasked with as they star with the Danish Chamber Orchestra.
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 (dogs barking)
00:16 (dramatic music)
00:19 - We're gonna perform this Jagdsymphony
00:32 by Leopold Mozart because it has been a wish
00:36 from our chief conductor, Adam Fisher,
00:39 for several years to perform exactly this piece
00:42 because then he would be able to put in this element
00:47 of participating dogs.
00:49 So the symphony is in three movements
00:55 and in the last movements we will hear the hunt to begin
01:00 and we will have shootings and then the dogs will start
01:03 to bark around the scenes and we will have three dogs
01:07 on his signal that will bark around the orchestra.
01:10 (dogs barking)
01:13 (audience applauding)
01:23 (dogs barking)
01:26 (dramatic music)
01:33 (dogs barking)
01:37 (dramatic music)
01:40 - We like classical music very much in our family
01:49 and we have been to several of their concerts
01:51 and when we saw that they wanted dogs to audition
01:55 to participate at this Heidenfestival,
01:59 we thought that would be fantastic.
02:01 (speaking in foreign language)
02:08 (speaking in foreign language)
02:09 - I think if I had to be there by myself,
02:12 I think I would be nervous,
02:14 but you know all the attention is at her
02:17 and you know she's the star, she's the star.
02:20 I'm just behind her, you know, with all the treats.
02:22 (dogs barking)
02:26 (upbeat music)
02:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]