Youtube launches its first online symphony orchestra

Google's video-sharing website YouTube announced on Monday that it will form the world's first online symphony orchestra, with renowned composer Tan Dun, pianist Lang Lang and others taking part in the project, foreign media reported.

YouTube said that in the early stages of the campaign, a concert will be held on April 15 this year at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the United States, and 100 band members will come from all over the world to play Tan Dun's "Symphony No. 1 of the Internet," composed especially for the project: "Eroica," conducted by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.

Before the concert, YouTube will invite professional and amateur musicians from around the world to participate in the project to select 100 band players. Willing to staff involved in the play can be download tan dun Eroica corresponding score (e.g., violin, cello, etc.), and then his play video uploaded to YouTube. YouTube will hire music experts from around the world to judge the band members, and will publish the names on the site in February. All YouTube users then voted for the final 100.

Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and many other famous orchestras around the world will perform together. "YouTube is the biggest Internet stage in the world, and I hope the platform can tap into a group of musical talents around the world," Mr Tan said on Monday.

To expand the reach of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the site has formed partnerships with music and media organizations around the world, and has received strong support from well-known musicians such as Lang Lang. Lang Lang had previously posted a video of a more casual piano performance on YouTube. YouTube product marketing manager Ed Sanders said that Lang Lang is also a "youtuber."

It is not known if the April 15 Carnegie concert will be streamed worldwide on YouTube, but YouTube has already created a channel dedicated to providing a variety of symphony video content.

  tencent technology