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Jimmy Leach
Jimmy Leach is editorial director for digital for The Independent.
Despite some the efforts of our own Edward Seckerson, YouTube has never seemed the natural home for posh music. By which I mean classical. Which I’ve always associated with the dirges on Radio 3 that my dad would insist on each Sunday until I grew old enough to protest and demand that I listen to scruffy blokes play guitars.
Anyhow, YouTube is obviously more mature about these things as its announced the worlds first collaborative orchestra. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, no less – designed to link individual musicians with the opportunity for a spot of global collaboration.
And if it turns out that you’re any good, then you and your fellow YouTube discoverees will get to play Carnegie Hall – playing The Internet Symphony by Tan Dun, the chap who composed the score of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which I never bothered seeing because someone told me where the dragon was hidden).
Get practising, you’ve got until the end of January to get spotted.
Anyhow, YouTube is obviously more mature about these things as its announced the worlds first collaborative orchestra. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, no less – designed to link individual musicians with the opportunity for a spot of global collaboration.
And if it turns out that you’re any good, then you and your fellow YouTube discoverees will get to play Carnegie Hall – playing The Internet Symphony by Tan Dun, the chap who composed the score of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which I never bothered seeing because someone told me where the dragon was hidden).
Get practising, you’ve got until the end of January to get spotted.
Comments
Ha, you got lucky, Radio 3 on a Sunday? Sunday was Mothers choice of Radio station and Radio 4's The Archers did nothing for a kid prefering his trusty old ZX Spectrum to Human company, saw the future of computing even though father insisted the guy who said "The world will need only 5 computers.... yada yada yada" though to be fair back then most decent machines Were as big as a bus, used the power of whole towns and were about as useful as a pig in a synagogue, but hell at least the Americans managed to do their ballistics calculations on their first one hu?
One Day I'm going to have me a Full orchestra of Electric Guitars and play the classics, just to annoy the boobies out of the stiff upper lip crowd ;)
Scruffy blokes with guitars, Even better :)