YouTube viewers can vote for their favorite pianist
If you're a classical music aficionado envious of the "American Beau ideal" tV audience wHO get to suffrage on their favourite contestants, your time has descend.
Inspired not by "Idol" but by Popsearch 2007, an online talent search sponsored by the Boston Popsthe Caravan Cliburn Foundation has taken its competition into net with its low gear YouTube contest for amateur serious music pianists.
The celebrated Cliburn Contest, which leads to lucrative recording and execution contracts for medalists and finalists, volition continue to select participants based on a traditional applications programme and auditory modality process. Only for its next amateur competition, to get office in Fort Worth in 2011, the creation will get to way for one competition wHO testament be selected via popular right to vote based on YouTube videos provided by 41 aspirant pianists world Health Organization are older than 35.
Anyone with an e-mail report has until Whitethorn 15 to inflict wWW.cliburn.org and cast a balloting on the videos, which became available to viewers Th and run basketball team to 10 proceedings apiece. The victor will gain machine rifle entry into the next competition, and the foundation will forego the entry fee of more or less $80.
Cliburn Fundament spokesman Sevan Melikyan acknowledges that voters will in all probability not watch entirely 41 videos ahead vote.
"We are aware of the fact that this contention canful very easily become a popularity contest. We ar not expiration to conceal from the fact that if you feature a lot of friends out there, they are leaving to voting for you," he said Thursday. Merely he said that, in classical euphony, entrants as well as voters are in all likelihood to be self-selecting, and he believes it unlikely that a performing artist without merit will end up on the rivalry stage.
Because the Cliburn Contention takes seat only every four-spot age, Melikyan said the YouTube prequel provides potential competitors with "something to keep their chops going" between events. The initiation plans to proceed the competitions for the next troika days, he said, sending several winners to the 2011 consequence. "It keeps them focused," he said.
Melikyan added that YouTube access as well provides an important bridge for potentiality classical music music fans. "We consume to maintain this artistry form alive, and what punter way than to meet it at rest home?"
diane.haithman@latimes.com
