YouTube Contest Aims Classics at Carnegie Hall

YouTube Contest Aims Classics at Carnegie Hall

The video-sharing Web site YouTube will take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses by holding an online competition where the public chooses musicians to play at Carnegie Hall.


The competition invites classical musicians around the world to submit two videos demonstrating their musical and technical abilities, YouTube said in a news release on Monday.



Winners from the competition will be flown to New York for a three-day summit with San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas, Chinese pianist Lang Lang and other performers leading up to an April 15, 2009, Carnegie Hall show.

Tilson Thomas said the program would "explore new ways for music lovers of all levels to use technology to discover how vast our tradition is."