Empty Orchestra start singing. The music was pumped up and we had a mini party, with mad dancing – that was a memorable scene to film." The filming introduced a number of technical challenges, with the producer Adam Tandy explaining that the simultaneous singing and conversing made production particularly difficult: "To record it all 'clean' and have options in the edit, that was technically hard on everybody." Typically, karaoke scenes in television will see characters sing only the opening lines, but because of the format of "Inside No. 9", the characters in "Empty Orchestra" sing the whole song. Each character sang a
Sunderland Symphony Orchestra core membership of the new orchestra.(3) Rupert Hanson was appointed musical director and principal conductor, and he developed the orchestra in consultation with the society members. The new society later became a registered charity,(4) and since other musical activities did not materialise, the name of the charity was changed to ‘Sunderland Symphony Orchestra’ in 2006. Following the death of Rupert Hanson in August 2009, Mun Ying Lin was appointed interim musical director until Ray Farr was appointed as the new Musical Director and Principal Conductor in November 2009.(5) After four years in the post, Ray Farr moved on to become