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Virtually Classical
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
You can practice your way to Carnegie Hall, or you can YouTube your musical ambitions. Yesterday, Google announced the YouTube Symphony Orchestra a new marketing project designed to take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses. It involves a series of organizations including Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Today, Anastasia Tsioulcas, North American editor of Gramophone magazine, looks at what's in store.
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Indeed, "rock and roll does cost"- which is why many NYC venues are struggling and some fantastic NY artists continue to starve.
NYC doesn't need the HOF, it needs more live venue-hopping during the week and weekends- especially in some of the lesser-known venues. What about a flat-rate Friday-Sunday "Super-pass" for X number of venues (no cover for pass holder, and proceeds evenly split b/w artists and participating clubs)?
1 drink minimum, discounted beer, weekly emails, the promo-possibilities are endless. Perhaps a fatally flawed proposition- I'm just throwin it out there b/c I am tired of seeing great live music in much too sparsely populated clubs.
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