娱乐英语新闻:YouTube Symphony Orchestra to debut live at New York's Carnegie Hall

NEW YORK, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Advisor and Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, is to debut live at New York's Carnegie Hall on Wednesday.

    A visual journey will accompany the music, according to a press release obtained by Xinhua on Friday. "Multi-media projections mapped to the historical Carnegie Hall architecture will transform the stage into an immersive video experience."

    The program will sample diverse periods and styles of classical music, including works by Gabrieli, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Villa Lobos, and John Cage, says the press release.

    Videos of Internet Symphony No. 1 "Eroica" by Tan Dun, a Chinese contemporary classical composer, written especially for this occasion, are being mashed together to create an ensemble video piece of memorable entrants. The piece will be performed at Carnegie Hall and the video subsequently posted on YouTube.com.

    "The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project has given us an online window into the skills, lives and passions of thousands of musicians around the world," says Michael Tilson Thomas. "Now we're looking forward to the excitement of meeting in person and putting together an eclectic playlist of electronic, solo, orchestral, improvisatory and chamber music all celebrating the amazing range of the music we share."

    The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is the world's first orchestra selected entirely through auditions online. The project is a collaboration between YouTube, the London Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Grammy Award -winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Academy Award -winning and Olympics composer Tan Dun, world-renowned pianist Lang Lang, and many other classical musicians and leading institutions.

    Since the launch of this initiative in December 2008, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's channel (www.YouTube.com/Symphony) has received more than 14 million views worldwide with visitors from more than two hundred countries and territories. Over three thousand videos were submitted to YouTube by musicians from Azerbaijan to Venezuela. These participants, consisting of professional and amateur musicians of all ages and on all instruments, represented more than seventy countries and territories on six continents.

    YouTube has partnered with more than 40 major classical music organizations and institutions to bring this initiative to musicians around the world.