YouTube orchestra debuts, wows Carnegie Hall
By Aspen Steib
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — The YouTube and Carnegie Hall generations collided Wednesday night in New York City as a nearly sold-out audience looked on in amazement.
Almost 100 musicians from around the world — the world’s first symphony orchestra comprised of members who auditioned solely online — played their debut gig. They may have forever changed the audition process in their journey.
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra bore a new era of classical performance at Carnegie Hall, and according to a YouTube employee, that’s exactly what they wanted to do.
“We hope this is game changing in the sense it redefines audition space, it brings people closer together and lets them collaborate, transcending geographical and linguistic boundaries,” said marketing manager Ed Sanders.
Participants were chosen from more than 3,000 YouTube video submissions from more than 70 countries and territories spanning six continents, according to a press release.
