{"id":83,"date":"2008-12-02T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-12-02T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:49:43","slug":"americas_next_top_symphony_mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/12\/americas_next_top_symphony_mu\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Next Top Symphony Musician Might Live Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In an age when holograms beam in to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ynews\/20081104\/pl_ynews\/ynews_pl132\" target=\"_blank\">report for CNN<\/a> and I attend staff meetings via Skype, I guess it&#8217;s not so crazy that you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/02\/arts\/music\/02orch.html\" target=\"_blank\">audition for a seat in a symphony orchestra<\/a> without leaving your basement. Sure, you could MapQuest your way to Carnegie Hall, but why bother now that you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/symphony\" target=\"_blank\">just upload your audition via YouTube<\/a> and Tan Dun, MTT and Co. will listen at their leisure? Bonus: On-demand audition review mean no one risks missing the finale of <i>Heroes<\/i> or anything. Ah, the 21st century is a magical place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not cutting edge technology at work here, but of course that&#8217;s the point. So when you bring participation in that cultural beast we know and love as the Symphony and offer it to the People, what happens? I&#8217;ll be watching the comments on this one.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-T_SryRAXuw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-T_SryRAXuw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The Detroit Symphony is also getting its geek on in order to connect with patrons from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081128\/OPINION03\/811280372\/1033\/ENT\" target=\"_blank\">the generation that has figured out how to use that Internet browser thingie on its cell phones<\/a>. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age when holograms beam in to report for CNN and I attend staff meetings via Skype, I guess it&#8217;s not so crazy that you can audition for a seat in a symphony orchestra without leaving your basement. Sure, you could MapQuest your way to Carnegie Hall, but why bother now that you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}