Carnegie Hall and YouTube Join Forces

This almost sounds too weird to be true, but definitely worth sharing. YouTube is creating what it calls “the world’s first collaborative online orchestra,” the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.

It’s open to professionals and amateurs from all over the world, no matter what your instrument is. The audition is done by submitting, yes you guessed it, a YouTube video performance. Not of any work though, but of a new piece written for the occasion by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, who wrote the score for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

According to the website, help is provided to learn the music, rehearse with the conductor and upload your part for a collaborative video. There will then be a popular vote to choose the best players for a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York in April.

Get practising!