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YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall

Posted by Soulskill on from the riaa-already-drafting-dmca-notice dept.

theodp writes "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Then, audition on YouTube. When a 10-year-old Hannah Tarley asked to get her ears pierced, her mom told the aspiring violinist she could if she performed at Carnegie Hall. Seven years later, using a computer placed atop several volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 17-year-old Hannah filmed herself playing Brahms' Symphony No. 4 to audition by video for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. On April 15, Hannah will make her debut with others who made the cut at New York City's Carnegie Hall in a concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony."

69 comments

  1. Nice trick by the mom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To get a tattoo she has to land on the moon.

    1. Re:Nice trick by the mom by eclectro · · Score: 0

      Dude, we've been to the moon already. We're trying to get to Mars now.

      Maybe a lip piercing could get us to the nearest star system even.

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    2. Re:Nice trick by the mom by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone convince that girl to get a labia ring and we'll either have warp drive or the first woman president by 2027.

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    3. Re:Nice trick by the mom by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Somehow you managed to stir my interest in Icelandic girls...

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    4. Re:Nice trick by the mom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lemme fix that for you.

      consider yourself Bjork'd.

    5. Re:Nice trick by the mom by yascha · · Score: 1

      To get a dog, her mom has to become President of the United States.

    6. Re:Nice trick by the mom by Kjella · · Score: 1

      Someone convince that girl to get a labia ring and we'll either have warp drive or the first woman president by 2027.

      The latter you could have gotten with a few more votes to Hillary. I'll take the warp drive thank you (it does come with a holodeck too, right?).

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  2. Rewards by Translation+Error · · Score: 5, Funny

    It warms the heart to see that all that talent, hard work, and effort can have the massive payoff of pierced ears at the age of 17.

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    1. Re:Rewards by eclectro · · Score: 1

      It also warms the heart knowing that the mother was able to take the college money and use it on herself.

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    2. Re:Rewards by scottrocket · · Score: 2, Funny

      The reason may have been shallow - but it was Brahms, and somewhere, Spock is smiling.

    3. Re:Rewards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow.
      Seriously?
      These are your comments?

    4. Re:Rewards by noidentity · · Score: 1

      If she'd waited one more year until she was 18, she wouldn't have had to waste all that time learning to play the violin at all! Kids these days, so impatient...

    5. Re:Rewards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      actually, just about anybody can go to the mall and get their ears pierced. Those places don't ask for id or parents for something as common as ear piercing. She could have done it anyways.

    6. Re:Rewards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She didn't play all these years so she could get her ears pierced. That's just the angle the writer of the story took!

    7. Re:Rewards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Whoosh!

  3. Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yawn by darpo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Girl uses YouTube to broadcast videos of herself. News at 11.

  4. Sound quality by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Youtube and consumer mics can have pretty horrible sound quality -- seems like a pretty bad way to audition for a position on an orchestra.

    1. Re:Sound quality by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Youtube and consumer mics can have pretty horrible sound quality -- seems like a pretty bad way to audition for a position on an orchestra.

      Talent still comes through, though. Quality recording equipment doesn't make a performance any better, because you can't polish a turd.

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    2. Re:Sound quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, they managed to polish turds on Mythbusters.

    3. Re:Sound quality by ciderVisor · · Score: 1

      You can't polish a turd.

      I tried that........and it's true. :(

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    4. Re:Sound quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      But you can cover the Mona Lisa with shit.

    5. Re:Sound quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Quality recording equipment doesn't make a performance any better, because you can't polish a turd.

      You can a bit. That's what vibrato and reverb are for. For violin without vibrato your intonation had better be spot on, and reverb, of course, sweetens everything.

    6. Re:Sound quality by CookedGryphon · · Score: 1

      You could try varnishing it first, I reckon you could get a pretty good shine up.

    7. Re:Sound quality by artor3 · · Score: 1

      No, but you can roll it in glitter.

    8. Re:Sound quality by Fumus · · Score: 1

      I'm only guessing here, but if the video isn't laggy, they could simply see how well she can handle the music instrument.

    9. Re:Sound quality by Mononoke · · Score: 1

      Done right, the judges will have closed their eyes and listened for pitch, meter and expression, all of which will come through Youtube just fine.

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    10. Re:Sound quality by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 1

      You can, but you can still see talent through crummy recording devices. That girl is talented (well, more talented than anyone I've known or seen live as an amateur), despite the 'computer on top of some books' recording studio.

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    11. Re:Sound quality by MarkRose · · Score: 1

      because you can't polish a turd

      Oh yes you can!

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    12. Re:Sound quality by Golddess · · Score: 1

      Why is this modded funny? It's true!

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    13. Re:Sound quality by rasteri · · Score: 1

      Quality recording equipment doesn't make a performance any better,

      Actually, yes it can - especially in woodwind or brass instruments. There's a lot of subtle high-frequency stuff going that won't get picked up in a low-fi environment, and that's where much of the skill in playing a complex wind instrument resides. You often don't hear little mistakes the musician is making until you hear a high-quality version of a previously low-quality mp3, for example.

  5. That Waldstein... by marco.antonio.costa · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Didn't like it one bit... But the other contestants were all over the place too. Allegro con brio is NOT Presto. Or Prestissimo in some cases. Brrr....

    Lesser of a bunch of evils, I guess.

    Full disclosure: A certain amount of envy is part of this comment, since I only picked up this Sonata to study after the deadline had passed. But I still think I could do better. Shit. Did it again, sorry. ;-)

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    1. Re:That Waldstein... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Full disclosure: A certain amount of envy is part of this comment, since I only picked up this Sonata to study after the deadline had passed. But I still think I could do better.

      Don't let envy get the better of you; there'll be other opportunities. One day you might get to have your ears pierced too.

    2. Re:That Waldstein... by marco.antonio.costa · · Score: 1

      Parents can be cruel. :|

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    3. Re:That Waldstein... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah, the Internet, where every achievement is accompanied by 50,000 people screaming "lol not bad keep practicing."

    4. Re:That Waldstein... by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      Full disclosure: A certain amount of envy is part of this comment, since I only picked up this Sonata to study after the deadline had passed. But I still think I could do better. Shit. Did it again, sorry.

      So what, it's not like it's that great of a prize. She'll do it, have fun and be forgotten. If you are really that talented keep it up and you'll have people inviting you to play because they actually want to hear you, not because you won some publicity contest.

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    5. Re:That Waldstein... by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 1

      And that's just it. It's a publicity contest. Really, a sort of novelty. If somehow they manage to get something really special they might start doing it every year. But no matter what happens nobody gets hurt, a bunch of people get a trip to New York, and get to perform at a world famous venue.

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    6. Re:That Waldstein... by Lictor · · Score: 1

      Since you've picked up the Sonata to study anyways, when can we look forward to a video of your better performance (with correct tempi, of course)?

    7. Re:That Waldstein... by marco.antonio.costa · · Score: 1

      Very soon now, very soon... >:-)

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    8. Re:That Waldstein... by marco.antonio.costa · · Score: 1

      I was talking about piano category winner, I thought violin girl was pretty good.

      Thanks for the encouragement though. :D

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  6. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Troll who thinks he or she is being witty. News at 13.

  7. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nerd who thinks there's an equal chance of women at /. News at 14.

  8. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    AC replies to himself 3 times. News at 15

  9. Pushy parent by Colourspace · · Score: 1

    Really takes pushy mum to the next level doesn't it?

    1. Re:Pushy parent by I'm+just+joshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Really takes pushy mum to the next level doesn't it?

      Whereas your mum would be happy just to get you out of the basement and living on your own.

    2. Re:Pushy parent by FooGoo · · Score: 1

      I don't think it's pushy. Everyone needs goals and it's not like mum said you can't eat or leave the house unless you play Carnegie Hall.

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  10. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but this time, without the millions of pedo "subscribers".

  11. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1

    4 times, and forgets /. doesn't give a damn about military time. News at 4pm.

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  12. Revenge of the... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...audiophile nerds?

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  13. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wasn't this supposed to happen a while ago? hrm.
    Anyway, compared to Nicovideo's orchestra, even if they did it a bit after they announced it for the first time, they'd still be old news.

  14. You know by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 1

    I must say, the kid sounds pretty damn good.

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  15. Interesting, but not significant by quercus.aeternam · · Score: 1
    The Youtube Symphony Orchestra itself is somewhat interesting; performing at Carnegie Hall is not.

    The openness of submissions is somewhat interesting. It is very normal for auditions of this sort to be conducted through recordings, though.

    As for performing at Carnegie Hall, it is actually quite insignificant - all it takes is money and a little skill. IMO as a musician, any (classical) musician worth his salt should have little trouble getting to Carnegie Hall (Perhaps I am deluded, but I have had opportunities to perform there, and I have never felt as if it were anything special).

    In one sense, I may consider it a step up from performing in Disneyland... fun and cool, but not musically significant in any way.

    It is very nice of Google to pay all the bills, though.

    1. Re:Interesting, but not significant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Amd what I thought was interesting is this...

      "using a computer placed atop several volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"

      Somewhat of a confirmation that a paper encyclopaedia is nothing more than a weight or to prop things up.

      Does anyone use these anymore?? I know the encyclopaedias are supposed to be vetted, but doesn't wikipedia do a "good enough" job? You can always do the fact checking yourself with the provided links.

    2. Re:Interesting, but not significant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      IMO as a musician, any (classical) musician worth his salt should have little trouble getting to Carnegie Hall (Perhaps I am deluded, but I have had opportunities to perform there, and I have never felt as if it were anything special).

      While it is true that Carnegie Hall hosts fairly common performances, such as high school choral performers, it is also true that it has hosted many musical greats. It is, after all, just a performance hall, albeit an excellent-sounding one, having been there many times.

      Unlike you, it is the dream of many to play there. Or, was it the context in which you were to play - one of those mass high school recitals, perhaps to bang out The Great Smoky Mountains on piano? Then I'd have to agree with you ... nothing special.

  16. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Namefag interrupts amusing thread with banality. News at 17.

  17. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1

    Troll gets fed, forgets slashdot is not 4chan. News at 5pm.

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  18. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    C-C-C-Combo breaker? I'm new at this.

  19. blurry, underexposed, shaking live concerts by heroine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll be the first concert without any lights, with half the orchestra shifted off the stage, with everything always out of focus, & with only 1 note you can actually hear.

    1. Re:blurry, underexposed, shaking live concerts by DavidChristopher · · Score: 1

      You've obviously never been to The Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
      An unlit, shifted, out of focus, annoyingly distorted orchestra would be an improvement.

      Worst. Venue. Ever.

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    2. Re:blurry, underexposed, shaking live concerts by T+Murphy · · Score: 1

      The official video will be from a shaky handheld somewhere on the far left side of the auditorium, and be next to a bunch of people that like to talk over the performance.

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  20. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 1

    Everyone dies. That and the 2009 Farm Dere tractors on the 5AM farm report.

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  21. Watched the "Meet the Youtube orchestra?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Notice how the black guy got like 3 seconds. Wow, that's shitty, even for an orchestra.

    Not only that, they played hip hop music when his part came on... Why?

    Impressive.

  22. Re:Old Media reporting on uses of New Media... yaw by 10Neon · · Score: 1

    Slow news day or what?

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  23. The girl's piece with full orchestra by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here. Starts at 5:39.

  24. INCREDIBLE!!! by Sfing_ter · · Score: 1

    That's INCREDIBLE!!! People still have Encyclopedias in analog format in their homes?? How 1990's...

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  25. Symphony for Youtube? by argent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd love to see a symphony orchestra play this.

  26. Colbert method by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1

    How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, bees!

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