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Internet Symphony Project with Tan Dun

YouTube has commissioned composer Tan Dun for an Internet Symphony, to be auditioned for by both professionals and amateurs on YouTube. You can see a performance of the piece by the LSO http://hk.youtube.com/symphonyhk and get information on how to be a part of the project http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_SryRAXuw&feature=related

Download your part and then you upload your audition (deadline 28 January 2009).

Registered YouTube viewers vote on the auditions (see the rules below)

Audition winners will receive up to a six-day/five-night trip for one to New York and a chance to perform at the Live Event.

The performance will be at Carnegie Hall under Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas in April 2009.

Official rules here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/ytsymphony/terms.html

FAQ here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/ytsymphony/faq.pdf

Link to the recent New York Times article on this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/arts/music/02orch.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Tan%20dun&st=cse

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