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オーディションへの参加を呼びかけるYouTubeの動画

カーネギーホールに行くにはどうすればいい？ 古いジョークにあるとおり、練習するだけだ。さらに今では米

Google社もその手伝いをしてくれるようになった。ただし、この場合も練習は必要だ。そしてオーディションも。

Google社では5ヵ月後に、カーネギーホールの舞台で演奏する『YouTube Symphony Orchestra』を結成し、[オリンピックやハリウッド映画向けの音楽を作曲している]中国の作曲家、譚盾氏の『インターネット交響曲第1番：Eroica』を演奏する予定だ。

このオーケストラに参加するには、クラシック音楽の音楽家であるか、それ以外の音楽家であるかは問われない。譚氏の作品と、標準的な作品1曲を演奏 する自身のYouTube映像を提出することが必要だ。審査は、Google社が指名した専門家による審査員団と、YouTubeコミュニティーによって 行なわれる。

作品の楽譜は、YouTubeからPDF形式で入手できる。譚氏が各パートを指揮する、個別に作成した指揮者の映像もある。例えばティンパニ奏者であれば、譚氏がティンパニ奏者だけに向けて指揮をする映像をダウンロードできる。

世界に散らばる才能あるたくさんのクラシック音楽家たちを1つのページにまとめるために、指示は17ヵ国語で提供されている。

写真左から右：指揮者のMichael Tilson Thomas氏、YouTubeの製品マーケティング・マネージャーEd Sanders氏、Google社の製品マーケティング・マネージャーTimothy Lee氏
Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk

Google社の製品マーケティング・マネージャーを務めるTimothy Lee氏(写真右端)は、次のように述べる。「この種のものとしては初のオンライン・コラボレーションだ。クラシック音楽には革新が強く求められている」

このアイディアに当初からかかわっているLee氏は、ワイアードに次のように説明した。Google社では、オーディションを勝ち抜いた演奏者を集 めてカーネギーホールでオーケストラの生演奏を行なうだけでなく、彼らがアップロードした演奏を、各自の映像をそれぞれ小さな枠に入れた1つの映像にマッ シュアップし、オーディションでの演奏を1つのオーケストラ録音にまとめた音声を付けることにしているという。

ということは、4月15日にカーネギーホールでの演奏を聴きに行かなくても、オーディションに勝ち残った演奏者たちが一緒に演奏するとどうなるかを 聴くことができるわけだ。(ただし現時点では、YouTubeユーザーが自分のお気に入りの演奏者を集めた「夢の」オーケストラを作れるようにする計画は ないという。)

Google社にとって、コンテンツを大規模に制作するのは初めてのことになる。このアイディアは、同社のリトリートで行なわれる 『Dragon's Den』コンテストで生まれた。このゲームは、社員のそれぞれが2分間を与えられてアイディアを語るものだ。Lee氏ともうひとりのクラシック音楽愛好家 がこのアイディアを説明し、他の人々の賛同を得た。Lee氏は現在、スタンフォード大学でMBA(経営学修士号)を取得するため、Google社から1年 間の研究休暇をもらっている。

YouTube Symphony Orchestraでは現在オーディションを受付中で、締切は1月28日だ。多数の有名なオーケストラから招いた専門家による審査員団が、扱いやすい人数 まで絞り込む。さらにYouTubeコミュニティーで2月14日から2月22日まで、準決勝まで勝ち抜いた演奏者から自分のお気に入りを選ぶ投票が行なわ れる。

Google社は、最終的な演奏者を3月2日に発表する予定だ。このYouTube選抜オーケストラは、4月にニューヨーク市に集まり、指揮者のMichael Tilson Thomas氏を迎えて3日間の練習を行ない、4月15日にカーネギーホールで演奏する。

Boy, 9, writes book on how to talk to

girls

A nine-year-old boy has had a book published in the US - called How to Talk to Girls.

Alec Greven's book began life as a creative writing project in school at Castle Rock, Colorado.

His handwritten pamphlet was then sold for $5 at a school book fair where it was the surprise bestseller.

Local news outlets took up the story, Alec was then invited on to a TV talkie which led to him sealing a publishing deal with Harper Collins.

And his book is now available as a 46-page hardcover version across the US.

"I saw a lot of boys that had trouble talking to girls," Alec told the New York Post's Jennifer Fermino. "If I say hi and you say hi back, we're probably off to a good start," he said.

His advice to boys includes - stop showing off, go easy on the compliments and be wary of "pretty girls".

"It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewelery," he writes in chapter three. "Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil."

And he continues: "The best choice for most boys is a regular girl. Remember, some pretty girls are coldhearted when it comes to boys. Don't let them get to you."

Alec's mother, Erin Greven, says her son's insight is down to his avid reading:

"He reads non-stop. At dinner, I say, 'Put your book down,' " she said.

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two blocks from Willy DeVille

in '96 i lived two blocks from Willy DeVille with my girlfriend Chailley.

after Willy's girlfriend started buying art at my gallery, i got up the nerve to go over one night, and for the next three years spent as much time hangin' out on his stoop as possible, discussing music, doctors...

doc pomus, little willie john, nyc, mardi gras indians, etc.,

but mostly local characters.

i admired his antique furniture, artwork, and Victorian eyeglass collection, and he admired some of my cures for headaches, which he'd never mention to his girlfriend.

These cures were always repaid by early morning serenades in his 'back-of-cottage' studio, accompanied by yapping dog, dixie belle.

Willy lived next door to the hotel where Thunders died.

He described his death this way:

I don't know how the word got out that I lived next door, but all of a sudden the phone started ringing and ringing. Rolling Stone was calling, the Village Voice called, his family called, and then his guitar player called. I felt bad for all of them. t was a tragic end, and I mean, he went out in a blaze of glory, ha ha ha, so I thought I might as well make it look real good, you know, out of respect, so I just told everybody that when Johnny died he was laying down on the floor with his guitar in his hands. I made that up. When he came out of the St. Peter's Guest House, riga mortis had set in to such an extent that his body was in a U shape. When you're laying on the floor in a fetal position, doubled over - well, when the body bag came out, it was in a U. It was pretty awful.

Johnny Thunders låg död på mitt hotellrum

NEW ORLEANS

Iko Iko
Sitter i Johnny Thunders dödsrum, dricker Hurricane, lyssnar på Dr John och stoppar nålar i voodoodockan.
Men ångbåtsorgeltanten tutar vidare.
Rum 37 på hotell St Peters House är litet, kostar 69 dollar, jag sitter på sängen.
På andra sidan korsningen Burgundy Street (Rue de Bourgogne) och St Peter Street ligger CD"s Saloon - baren där punkrockens Dean Martin, heroinisten Johnny Thunders, träffade två skurkar och tog sitt sista glas.
Sedan hittades New York Dolls-mannen död här på golvet, utanför toaletten. Rånad och antagligen mördad av dåliga droger. Han hade också lymfkörtelcancer.

and your host has been kind enough without the aid of nicotine to translate it into Spanglish:

"Johnny Thunders was laying dead in my hotel room."

Sitting in Johnny Thunders room of death, drinking Hurricane, listening to Dr John and putting needles in the voodoo doll.

But the steamboat-organist-lady is still horning away

Room 37 on hotel St Peters House is tiny, costs 69 dollar, I'm sitting on the bead.

On the other side of the Burgundy Street (Rue de Bourgogne) och St Peter Street crossing is CD"s Saloon - the bar where the Dean Martin of punk rock, the heroinist Johnny Thunders, met two crooks and had his last glass.

Later the New York Dolls-man was found dead död here on the floor, outside the toilet. Robbed and probably murdered by bad drugs. He also had lymphocyte cancer.

Han was 38 years old.

Thunders sang "You can"t put you arms around a memory" and Per Omdurman likes him a lot.

Burton likes New Orleans a lot too. He's a sinner, he's a saint.

Born voyage, baby.

My travel companion, Svenska Switchblades L'Enfant terrible, the man with William Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury" on the nightstand, puts the needles in the country music enthusiast who can find a five star record every week and I've got two guys - you know who you are, teething - back in the old country who will receive my needles in the voodoo doll for 15 dollars.

but fiest I'm aiming at the lousy lady overboard the Mississippi steamboat Natchez. Her off-key steamroller squeegees by Tennessee Williams tramway "Lindie Lucita" and perhaps all the way to Tiptoeing"s and I'm sure voodoo musician Professor Longhair, who's head you ought to rub there, had put his needles into her if he had been into voodoo.

Been her in "The Big Easy" four times now, but never seen Mysticism or Master P. Or Dr John. But the lady plays the steamboat every time..

My voodoo must be wrong.

Voodoo religion exists only in Haiti, in Brazil and here in Louisiana. 15 % of New Orleans population is down with voodoo. The local voodoo saint is Marie Laveau but that doesn't help me. The old lady still plays.

I wish someone could rub my head too. Well, this sickening headache; I don't know whether it was the Cajun-martini I had at Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana-cooking-restaurateur K-Pauls or if it is the plague from NYC or if it's the flu or if the needle I put in Mr. X's head backfired..

That's how the story goes. Respect voodoo.

Like Dr John sings :
"After you rub it a while, you dub it."

"Meeting perhaps the worlds fattest black gay. He's cooking his cajun sausages, Po-Boys together with a tiny little transvestite at Clover Grill, a little place on Bourbon Street and Dumaine.

Come on in, ya"ll, we not gonna eat ya, he says and flirts with a gumbo in the hand."

What a man!

/Z

Many rumors surround Johnny's death at the St. Peter House in New Orleans, Louisiana in April, 1991. He apparently died of drug-related causes, (i'm sorry but i'm just not buying that) was it accidental or the result of foul play? Dee Dee Ramone (and you know how fond jt was of dd) took a call in New York the next day from Stevie Klasson, Johnny's rhythm guitar player.

"They told me that Johnny had gotten mixed up with some bastards... who ripped him off for his methadone supply. They had given him LSD and then murdered him. He had gotten a pretty large supply of methadone in England, so he could travel and stay away from those creeps - the drug dealers, Thunders imitators, and losers like that."

What is known for certain is that Johnny's room (no. 37) was ransacked...cunt here.