Review: By David Polk The debut concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra began Wednesday with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas updating an old joke: The new way to get to Carnegie Hall, he said, is to “upload, upload, upload.” The concert was the culmination of an online competition by which classical musicians from around the world more…
Archive for April 16, 2009
Listening Challenge
Thursday, April 16, 2009 by Noel Morris
My little slice of our ‘match of the music-lover,’ WFMT’s new game show, La Triviata, is to create an audio onslaught of core repertoire. The challenge for the contestants: identify as much of the music as possible. It’s kind of fun. One disclosure: it turns out some very fine brains are wired to recall what more…
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