http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mUv705xj3U
Skip to the 1:30 part unless you want the introduction. The piece ends at minute 7 and is followed by a bit more voice-over for the remainder.
I read about this piece in Alex Ross' book The Rest is Noise last month. You'll notice that there are a bit more than 1000 dislikes of the video and about 800 likes. Some people get the joke. A symphonic poem for 100 metronomes is a joke, people, even if it's a joke you don't get. Anyone who doesn't understand the joke is built right into the title itself probably won't appreciate the joke and even those who do will probably not revisit the piece too many times. You may notice there are not a lot of, ahem, commercially available recordings of this piece on CD or mp3.
Consider this a jocular post-script to Chamber Music Week.
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