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Titolo: Youtube Symphony Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/symphony
idea niente male, e niente male anche la breve Sinfonia di Tan Dun.
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L'Esattore
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 idea niente male, e niente male anche la breve Sinfonia di Tan Dun.
una specie di Eroica cinese :)
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Per chi non capisce l'inglese:
http://it.youtube.com/symphonyit
 

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Getting to Carnegie via YouTube
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Published: December 1, 2008
Traditionally, auditioning for an orchestra means appearing alone
onstage in a nerve-jangling performance before grizzled veteran
musicians. In the Google way, it means posting on the company's
video-sharing site, YouTube, for online judging by the professionals
and then, ultimately, the YouTube universe.
That second option is the main feature of a new marketing project by
Google to bolster the organized presence of classical music on YouTube
and promote the idea of online communities. And orchestras and
professional musicians, poking around in the murky but fecund
possibilities of the Internet, have jumped on board as a way to
further their own educational and musical missions.
The project, called the YouTube Symphony Orchestra
(
www.youtube.com/symphony
), was announced on Monday in London and New
York.
Boiled down, it has two essential parts. The composer Tan Dun has
written a four-minute piece for orchestra. YouTube users are invited
to download the individual parts for their instruments from the score,
record themselves performing the music, then upload their renditions.
After the entrants are judged, a mash-up of all the winning parts will
be created for a final YouTube version of the piece.
In the project's other prong, musicians will upload auditions from a
prescribed list — for trumpeters, for example, an excerpt from the
Haydn Concerto — for judging by a jury that Google says will include
musicians from major orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic and the
London Symphony. Entrants have until Jan. 28 to upload their
videos.The panel picks a short list of finalists, and YouTube users,
"American Idol"-style, choose the winners, who are flown to Carnegie
Hall in April for a concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the
music director of the San Francisco Symphony. Google will arrange for
visas and pay costs.
Officials of the project refused to discuss any aspect of the overall
cost, but the Carnegie Hall concert alone is likely to be well into
six figures. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Tan said their fees were not beyond
the ordinary.
Users will be encouraged to comment on one another's videos in the
hope that communities will grow. In other aspects, London Symphony
musicians will provide online instruction on how to play the Tan
parts, in the spirit of master classes. YouTubers can play along with
music-minus-one videos of his piece. Mr. Tan has prepared video clips
of himself silently conducting each section of the orchestra, staring
into the camera as if it were a viewer playing an instrument, to help
prepare auditioners.
"The idea is to put together the world's first collaborative online
orchestra" and encourage musicians of all types and abilities around
the world, said Ed Sanders, YouTube's project marketing director for
Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the person in charge of the
effort. "It's collaboration in a way and a medium never seen, both
with sound and video."
Another aim is the "serendipity of discovery," Mr. Sanders said. "It
would be a dream come true to find a trombone player in Hong Kong who
had a rare talent, but nobody knew."
Beyond helping the world's brass players, the YouTube Symphony project
fits in with Google's business interests.
"They want to make their properties even more relevant to all types of
people in all types of places doing all types of things," said Scott
H. Kessler, an equities analyst at Standard & Poor's who follows
Google. It also potentially "takes the edge off" recent perceptions
that Google is not living up to its credo of "do no evil," he said.
More specifically, the foray into music is in keeping with Google's
strategy to gussy up YouTube content and thus make the site more
attractive to advertisers. Google has been disappointed by revenues
from YouTube, which it bought in 2006.
So it sponsored a presidential debate and made a recent deal to put
MGM films and television on YouTube, to move it past associations with
lowest-common-denominator material like pranks, pratfalls and cats
drinking out of toilet bowls.
"They are migrating from that to becoming a repository of serious
content," said Youssef Squali, an Internet analyst at Jefferies &
Company in New York. The classical music project brings buzz as well
as traffic, he added. "They're able to monetize traffic through
advertising, at no cost."
The effort has Mr. Thomas, who is serving as artistic adviser, as its
most prominent figure from the classical music world. He has long been
involved in using media to spread classical music, from his days on
live television conducting the New York Philharmonic Young People's
Concerts to his DVD, television and online didactic programs under the
title "Keeping Score" with the San Francisco Symphony.
He said he hoped that the citizen musicians on YouTube would make
connections, that nonmusicians would discover the breadth and joys of
classical music, and that professional musicians would have a new way
of expressing themselves.
"I know this is going to lead toward people discovering more what the
music really is," Mr. Thomas said. YouTube already is a vast
repository of performances by musicians and orchestras famous and
unknown, historical and contemporary.
Mr. Tan called the project a "revolutionary idea" that could bridge
music's past and the present. He said his piece had mechanical
percussive sounds that are relevant to young people today and motifs
from classical music, like a reference to the first theme of
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica."
Google lists a number of orchestras as partners, including those
judging entries or potentially contributing material to the Web site.
Conservatories are also listed, although the extent of their role
beyond advertising the site is unclear.
The London Symphony, which sees its involvement as an extension of its
educational programs, said it was not being paid for participating.
And New York Philharmonic players will volunteer their time in judging
entries, as well as in possibly devising material for the YouTube
Symphony Web site, said the orchestra spokesman, Eric Latzky.
"We see a great symbiotic relationship with this project," Mr. Latzky
said, "and we see great potential to inspire a kind of new worldwide
interest and enthusiasm for classical music." Exposing the
Philharmonic musicians to people in countries where the orchestra
tours was another plus, he said.
"I really do applaud Google for trying this, and I'm sure there's
benefit for them," Mr. Latzky said. "If they're successful, then maybe
it can help make classical music more successful."
More Articles in Arts »A version of this article appeared in print on
December 2, 2008, on page C1 of the New York edition.

no ha scritto:
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i meno giovani ricorderanno che questa stessa idea fu lanciata alcuni 
anni fa dal sottoscritto.
poi non se ne fece nulla perché alcuni ritenevano la cosa impossibile 
(mi ricordo l'opposizione intransigente di un (allora)aspirante 
trombonista genovese che non posta più da tempo)
alecs.

 trombonista genovese che non posta più da tempo)
mi sa che ti ricordi male: l'allora aspirante trombonista genovese era
klaus e anzi anni prima ancora era stato lui che aveva lanciato
l'idea, insieme con Giacomo Andreola (sparito pure lui, ho sperato di
vederlo domenica al concerto di Mario, ma nisba). C'era addirittura la
proposta di mettersi ad eseguire una cantata di Telemann "Du Aber
Daniel", ed avevano anche cominciato a circolare delle parti ...
Questo è un post in mezzo a un thread che ricorda proprio
quell'episodio:
http://snipurl.com/72ufd
ciao
cg

prostetnic vogon jeltz ha scritto:
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noooo, molto prima prostetnic, molto prima.
l'idea dell'ensemble IAMC era del 2002/2003.
e certo che mi ricordo di klAus, l'(allora)aspirante trombonista. Il 
nome non l'ho scritto apposta, ma lo ricordo perfettamente 
(allegri...ridondamore...vabbé, altri tempi)
con lui scambiai alcune email sull'argomento, ma non volle mai far 
partire l'idea perché non credeva in un buon risultato.
ricordo che scrissi anche due email a ceccherini. in una di queste gli 
chiedevo consigli perché all'epoca dirigevo un coro, nell'altra gli 
proponevo la supervisione del progetto Ensamble IAMC, ma non mi ha mai 
risposto ne all'una nè all'altra. (nemmeno per mandarmi affanculo, o 
forse fu il suo modo per farlo)
chissà se Marcelli o Simonetti hanno notizie di klAus.
alecs.

 chissà se Marcelli o Simonetti hanno notizie di klAus.
non saprei, i genovesi per qualche strana sindrome si frequentano poco fra 
di loro.
ciao
cg