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The Impossible Orchestra
For the project, which DW co-produced, de la Parra assembled big-name musicians including, among others, the world-famous Mexican-born tenor Rolando Villazon playing percussion; double bass player Edicson Ruiz, violinists Maxim Vengerov and Guy Braunstein; cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Jan Vogler; oboist Albrecht Mayer, percussionist Christoph Sietzen and horn player Sarah Willis.
It's a cast of musicians who would otherwise never play together: In the pre-2020 world, their datebooks would have been full years in advance. But in the year of the pandemic, when Alondra called, "Suddenly everyone was free. Everyone was taking my call, and everyone was saying yes. They were not only available in terms of time, but I think there was an availability in spirit. Because everyone sees how the world is suffering from this pandemic, and in different ways."

The Impossible Orchestra
The Impossible Orchestra is a charity project founded by the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra. 30 artists from 14 countries as well as Alondra de la Parra herself come together to draw attention to the situation of vulnerable women in Mexico. The Mexican ballerina Elisa Carrillo Cabrera dances to the music. This is how the project was created:
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By Jake Bickerton2020-04-07T15:36:00+01:00
Highly experienced VFX specialist joins from Dneg
Unit has taken on Adam Dewhurst as head of creatures and characters. He has 16 years experience in VFX across feature films, commercials and TV, having kicked off his career at Framestore, before moving onto Cinesite, MPC, Mill Film, The Mill and DNeg.
His credit list includes The Golden Compass, World War Z, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Dark Knight, Clash of the Titans, Maleficent, Les Miserables, John Carter of Mars, Prince of Persia and Hobbs and Shaw.
His commercials credits - where he lead the creatures and characters creation - includes John Lewis Man on the Moon, BBC God Only Knows - The Impossible Orchestra and Heathrow Coming Home.

March 6 2020, 9:36 am | BY Ricki Green | 9 Comments
A month after Ben Lilley’s surprise buy-out of McCann Australia, CB sat down with him and McCann National CCO Pat Baron to chat about their journey from 90’s mid-weight McCann creative team to the world’s most awarded agency and Campaign Brief Agency of the Year just two decades later. And we ask, can they do it all over again?
 
CB: So Ben, welcome back to McCann… again. Can lightning strike twice?
Ben: Well hopefully it’s a case of lightning striking thrice. I first joined McCann in the 90’s as a mid-weight writer, when I was teamed up with a remarkable art director named Patrick Baron. We had a good run as a team, starting with some respectable MADC awards then international metal. And my first Campaign Brief cover for a ‘pro-active’ campaign we did for a cosmetic laser surgery. It was a bunny in cross-hairs… “rapid hair removal…” Which got a couple of nice awards but would be laughed out of the jury room today! After about a year I was head-hunted across to George Patts (now Y&R) as a senior creative. And so it was my second time around at McCann when they bought SMART and that of course was a pretty amazing creative run we then had, this time with Pat teamed up with John Mescall. So yes, I am of course hopeful that we can now do it all over again!