System lets Wii users conduct a virtual orchestra

Throw away Rock Band and toss out Guitar Heroes 1, 2 and 3, because a new video game is set to take over the globe, and it's one which fulfills many music fans' deepest, secret desires.Which is, of course, not to rock out on a Gibson Les Paul or bang one's way through Enter Sandman, but rather to lead an orchestra with grace and verve; to raise one's baton, nod to the concertmaster - and conduct.










The newcomer goes by the name of UBS Virtual Maestro, and has been developed by Teresa Nakra at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, with Swiss banking giant UBS providing financial sponsorship. In concert halls across America, classical fans young and old have been lining up for the chance to swing an electronic baton and lead a virtual incarnation of the Verbier festival orchestra. A European tour is planned for the autumn.The set-up is a 42-inch plasma TV screen and a large speaker, both hooked up to a Nintendo Wii running special Virtual Maestro software. The player uses the wireless Wii remote as if it were a baton, and guides the orchestra's tempo. With just a wave of the hand, they can transform Barber's ponderous Adagio for Strings into a mile-a-minute gambol, or Rossini's bracing William Tell Overture into a slow-motion funeral dirge. "In the ebb and flow of the beat there's a real flow of emotion," Nakra explained.Of course there's more to being a conductor than just goading the orchestra into a faster or slower tempo. But even as-is, the game is proving popular with those of all ages. "You can have someone in their 70s," the Philadelphia orchestra's Katherine Blodgett raved, "[and] you can have children. I think it just goes to show that everyone wants to be a conductor."And if they really want people to get excited, they just need to offer a free set of tails.

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Corrie's David puts Gail's life in danger

Corrie's David puts Gail's life in danger

'Coronation Street' is correct for a very dramatic plot line next week when Jacques Louis David Platt decides to strike retaliation on his mother Gail for keeping Tina's maternity secret from him.
According to reports, David (played by Jack-tar P Shepherd) overhears Gail tattle Jason that Tina (Michelle Keegan) has decided to ingest an abortion.
Gail (Helen Charles Frederick Worth) wants to clear the air with Jason because he thinks that it is his married woman Sarah world Health Organization is concealment a maternity from him.
When Jacques Louis David overhears the conversation he confronts his mother roughly taking his girlfriend Tina to own a secret abortion.
Afterward a blaze quarrel, David storms on a higher floor to pack his bags. Gail follows him to try to persuade him to change his mind.
Merely Saint David launches into a philippic of maltreat and then pushes Gail down the steps.
As she lies motionless at the bed of the stairs, Jacques Louis David screams at her to arouse her up.
When Gail doesn't respond, St. David flees the view without even vocation an ambulance.
Eventually Gail's neighbours discover her and she is taken to hospital where doctors fight to write her life story.
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