[{"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "promoting and celebrating the music of Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Cyfweliad gyda / interview with"}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "O wybod am lwyddiant diweddar The Artist, mae\u2019n ymddangos bod perfformiadau Cerddorfa Chwyth Genedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru eleni wedi eu hamseru\u2019n berffaith. Nid bod neb wedi trefnu i bethau fod felly. \u201818 mis yn o\u0302l oedd y tro cyntaf i Ty\u0302 Cerdd so\u0302n wrtha\u2019 i am y prosiect hwn,\u2019 meddai Charlie Barber wrthyf, \u2018felly doedd neb yn gwybod am The Artist.\u2019 Mae\u2019n serendipaidd fod y perfformiadau byw hyn o sgo\u0302r newydd Barber ar gyfer The Fall of the House of Usher, gwaith sydd wedi\u2019i adlunio\u2019n ddiweddar, yn digwydd mewn hinsawdd lle mae\u2019r diddordeb mewn ffilmiau mud wedi ailgydio."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "A sut brofiad yn ei hanes fu\u2019r broses o ail-sgorio i ensemble llawer iawn mwy? \u2018Roeddwn i\u2019n eithaf awyddus i ddefnyddio\u2019r ensemble cyfan,\u2019 meddai, \u2018ond yr her arall yw cadw pob un o\u2019r cerddorion yn brysur drwy\u2019r amser, a pheidio rhoi 197 o guriadau gwag iddyn nhw!\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "Given the recent success of The Artist, it would appear that National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales's performances this year have been timed to perfection. Not that anybody planned it that way. \u2018Ty Cerdd first mentioned this project to me 18 months ago\u2019 Charlie Barber tells me, \u2018so nobody knew about The Artist.\u2019 It is serendipitous that these live performances of Barber\u2019s new score for the recently reconstructed The Fall of the House of Usher take place in a climate of renewed interest in silent cinema."}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "It is the early silent films which prove to hold the most meaning for Barber. While the mass production of culture can be an obstacle for some, he finds them to be an overwhelming connection to the past. \u2018All these amazing people, performances and personalities are captured on celluloid and they\u2019re there pretty much for eternity.\u2019 But it is the juxtaposition of past and present which he finds most captivating, \u2018because the live music is often pumping out some emotional surge or energy to this thing which is from a previous century, on which you can see the performers there emoting in their own way, in their own time.\u2019"}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "And how did he find the process of rescoring for a much larger ensemble? \u2018I was quite keen to use the whole ensemble,\u2019 he says, \u2018but the other challenge is to keep all the musicians involved all the time, and not to give them 197 bars rest!\u2019"}]