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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."

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  1. 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. 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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