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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra (YTSO) was an orchestra assembled by open auditions hosted by YouTube, the London Symphony Orchestra and several other worldwide partners. Launched on December 1, 2008, [ 1 ] it was the first online collaborative orchestra.
Main and Under 13 Orchestras have an eight-day course in the spring and another eight-day course in the summer, both ending in a public concert in a major venue, as well as a non-residential winter weekend for the Main orchestra. the Under 12 Orchestra has 2 7-day courses a year with one private concert and one public after the second course.
There were 1,224 symphony orchestras in the United States as of 2014. Some U.S. orchestras maintain a full 52-week performing season, but most are small and have shorter seasons.
Are you a frustrated virtuoso who should be playing in an orchestra conducted by Michael Tilton Thomas instead of entertaining hyperkenetic eight-year-olds at Chucky Cheese? Then this might be ...
The NYO-USA is a full symphony orchestra consisting of around 110 young musicians. [1] Depending on the repertoire for the season it may or may not include harpists and orchestral keyboardists. [4] Membership to the orchestra changes each year with an annual application and audition process.
Mothership is a single-movement composition for orchestra and electronica by the American composer Mason Bates.The piece received its world premiere March 20, 2011 at the Sydney Opera House by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas, with featured improvisatorial soloists Paulo Calligopoulos on electric guitar, Ali Bello on violin, Su Chang on zheng, and John Burgess on bass ...
The orchestra was founded in 1960 by cellist and conductor Walter Charles. Carl Topilow was Music Director from 1978 - 2020 and continues with the orchestra as the Music Advisor. The NRO was formerly known as the Blue Jeans Symphony based in Estes Park, Colorado, and later as the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra based in Evergreen, Colorado.
From 1995 to 2014, he was principal bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. He taught at the Guildhall School from 1999 and began teaching at the Royal College of Music in 2007. He provided a video master class for prospective members of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in 2008. [5] [6] [7] [8]