Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier Builds “All You Need Is Love” Live With an Unrehearsed Orchestra

At TED2026 in Vancouver, Jacob Collier conducted the VSO School of Music Orchestra through an unrehearsed arrangement of the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love,” built in front of the audience without sheet music or prior plan. The performance argues, by demonstration, that improvisation at orchestral scale depends less on vagueness than on precise, rapidly revised instructions: pitches, loops, dynamics, entrances and roles assigned in real time.