A YouTube Proposition
Lets make beautiful music together
 

You always dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall but never even made it to Oberlin's conservatory? Fear not, young ones! Famed composer Tan Dun, who created such memorable scores for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Beijing Olympics, is offering an Internet search a la American Idol to find a group of musicians for a 3 day summit at the famed New York stage to perform a piece that was written by Dun and entitled Internet Symphony No 1 "Eroica." Yeah, that's just one letter off from what we want to make with that violinist with the curly hair.

Musicians can upload a video onto YouTube that involves them playing a piece written by Dunn specifically for the contest, and have it judged by viewers before being short-listed by a panel of judges.

The winner will get to perform in Carnegie hall with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Though any instrument can be used, the trick is that it must work alongside others, Dun says.

"The Internet is an invisible Silk Road," says Dun, which indecipherably relates back to this contest somehow. Funny, we thought the Internet was a series of tubes.

So far, there are no user-generated videos on the YouTube page for Dun's project, but give it time. We are putting money on those guys from Stomp taking a shot at it in the next couple of days.

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