YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall

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."

Re:Interesting, but not significant

[Anonymous Coward]

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 [wikipedia.org]. 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.