Response to "YouTube Symphony Orchestra Seeks Inspiring Orchestra Teachers" by MENC
YouTube serves many purposes. For some, it's the "I'm bored; lets look at stupid videos" stop, for others its "my friend told me to watch some video" stop, and for some it's the "there's a new music video I want to watch" stop. YouTube has expanded to become so many things for so many people. The article stated that last year, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra got 25,000,000 hits making it the largest internet classical music project.
It's amazing how music incorporates itself into everyday life places and activities. Personally, I really only watch music related videos on YouTube, but I remember when I first started hearing about YouTube and all my friends were watching stupid videos. "Charlie the Unicorn" was a popular one, along with a video called, "Shoes," that I never did get around to watching. However, when I first started hearing about YouTube, I don't remember hearing about music videos, or montages of songs. That's an idea I learned about later. Then, when I found out about YTSO, I was downright amazed. Who would have thought to have an internet based orchestra where musicians audition by submitting videos on the internet? I sure wouldn't have, and quite frankly, as cool as the idea is, I'm not too sure how much I like it. Maybe it'll grow on me in time, however. I mean, colleges do allow students to send in video auditions for music schools, so why not for an orchestra? Nevertheless, the idea does amaze me, and I love how music on YouTube has developed from popular music of the day to a real life symphony orchestra.
Personally, I find 'Shoes' a little odd, and has low entertainment value. But I definitely like your thoughts about the expansion of Youtube. I know last year for our final lesson presentation, I used Youtube as a way to show different musical examples. It's the type of thing that I could take into the classroom, though in my school district at home, youtube was blocked, so if teachers wanted to show Youtube videos, they'd have to hack into Youtube Canada. But definitely with things like the symphony orchestra, there is a lot that students could learn from that.
ReplyDeleteThis is great, Erin. Please include a link to the original source in your PLN posts.
ReplyDeleteThis is really a fascinating post. I enjoyed reading about the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. To be honest with you, before your post I have never heard of it; it is definitely something I'm going to listen to now. I also like your thoughts on the expansion of YouTube, it is quite amazing how it has changed so much even over the last year. It really has become an educational resource as well.
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