The future of live performance is already here

Orchestras at the Juilliard School’s Tianjin, China, and New York City campuses played a perfectly synchronized concert together—while 7,000 miles apart.

The piano went first. Two notes in C, one octave apart, played over and over and over again, like the trusty beat of a metronome. Then came the violins, and the flutes, and the trumpets, and, slowly, almost imperceptibly, the music crescendoed from the lips and fingers of 40 musicians playing in unison.

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