Exercise 3.look at the photos. what is unusualabout the instruments? exercise 4.read the text and check your answers from exercise 3.the vienna vegetable orchestra is a group of musicians whoplay vegetables. on the day of a concert, the orchestra buysfresh vegetables an hour before the performance to make theirinstruments. these include wind instruments made from carrotsand percussion instruments made from aubergines. the sounds areamplified with microphones. the orchestra plays different musicalstyles from experimental electronic music to jazz. their music isconstantly developing and when they go on tour, they experimentwith local vegetables. the vegetables are both musical and useful: atthe end of the performance, they make vegetable soup and serve it tothe audience.glenn donnellan is a classical musician who plays violin in thenational symphony orchestra in washington dc. as part of his job,he works with children. sometimes young people think classical musicis neither cool nor interesting so he wanted to involve them more. hisanswer was a batolin: a violin made from a baseball bat. he made itfrom a normal baseball bat using tools that he found in the theatrewhere he worked. he says kids can make their own instruments. it isnot only educational but also fun.mr donnellan put a film of himself playing the batolin on a videosharing website. then he got a message from the washingtonnationals baseball team inviting him to play the national anthembefore a match. the reaction of the crowd was extraordinary: theyloved both the idea and the sound.an award-winning composer, bill milbrodt, started the car musicproject when his old car died. instead of scrapping the car, herecycled it into musical instruments. he employed mechanics totake the car apart and a metal sculptor to make the instruments. hewanted to have traditional orchestral groups: wind, strings, brass andpercussion. he also wanted the instruments to look like car partsbut be like real ones so professional musicians can play them easily.the instruments include drums made from the wheels and a bassmade from the petrol tank. sometimes the musicians play music bycomposers but often they create their own sound, so the music carmusic project plays can be either traditional or modern. с 4,5,6​

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