Open Monologue
Just because I'm making it up as I go along doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing

I’m normally not a “did you see this cool video that {insert name of person here} blogged about?” probably because I assume that if you read this, you read all the other people I do on a regular basis. Maybe this is an erroneous assumption – I’ll have to give that some thought.

But this is too cool to not mention. Alec Couros posted about The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project and I think it is worth passing along or prodding people’s memory about. The culmination of the project will be the performance at Carnegie Hall in New York of a new symphony written by composer Tan Dun (whose creds, according to Wikipedia, include composing the score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Here’s the pitch by Tan Dun and several others:

How’s that for an authentic assessment for music students? So to answer the old riddle “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”, the answer is now practice then record then upload.