We often tend to separate the music in our lives into different categories. We probably have a type of music that we listen to in the car and maybe another type that we listen to when we are feeling down. We also tend to separate music according to style, so there doesn’t tend to be an overlap between classical music and rock music. The same can also be said for many other styles of music and although they each bring something interesting to the table, we don’t often mix-and-match.
If there is one thing that people who play musical instruments have in common, it’s the fact that they are very talented people. If they have talent enough to share it with the world, either through a television talent show or online, then they may be able to break the barrier and move from one type of music to another. When they do so, it creates something unusual that we may never have seen or heard before. Perhaps that is the experience you will get when you hear these two cellists playing in front of an orchestra. The thing is, they aren’t playing classical music.
Most people who think about a cello or violin typically think about classical music. It is true that they are most often used in an orchestra to play that style of music and they have the ability to move an audience. When you take them away from the classical genre, however, you may just find that they have an ability that you never even considered possible before.
It is easy to see the talent of these two cellists as they are sitting in front of an orchestra at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Rather than playing something by Beethoven or Mozart, they begin playing a Michael Jackson song, Smooth Criminal. I’m sure that you have never heard this song played on a cello before but after you hear it in this video, you may just want to hear it again.
Listen to the cellists playing Smooth Criminal in the following video:
