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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is back for a second year -- but why?
Culture MonsterWe're not really sure why, but it's back. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is having another go, this time in Sydney, Australia. The general idea is the same as last year -- post a video of yourself playing the set audition...... -
Monster Mash: Trial ends for ex-Getty curator Marion True; Lincoln Center suffers bedbug outbreak
Culture MonsterLegal saga: The trial of former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True ended Wednesday in Rome when judges ruled that the statute of limitations had expired on criminal charges that she had conspired to traffic in looted art. (Los Angeles...... -
Diary of a YouTube Symphony Orchestra tryout: Meet the horn player
Culture MonsterWhenever I tell people I have a master's degree in French horn performance (which is usually only to secure a win in a most-useless-degree contest), they are shocked to find that aside from one weekend Christmas gig with a friend...... -
Music review: YouTube Symphony Orchestra's final concert
Culture MonsterAs I write this -- 18 hours after watching the YouTube Symphony Orchestra Grand Finale concert -- the only musical thing that sticks in my mind is Romanian bassoonist Laurentiu Marius Darie's excellent playing in Stravinsky's "Firebird" and William... -
Monster Mash: Jon Cryer joins musical production of 'Company'; 'Spider-Man' choreographer still has job
Culture Monster'Two and a Half Men's' Jon Cryer joining production of 'Company'... -
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir will be unveiled Thursday
Culture MonsterThe second incarnation of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir project resulted in 2,051 people from 58 countries around the world submitting videos of themselves singing either the soprano, alto, tenor or bass part of Whitacre's composition "Sleep."... -
Diary of a YouTube Symphony tryout: Well, that was short!
Culture MonsterThree weeks. That was all the time I was supposed to need to get fit enough to make an audition video for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. I had barely touched my French horn since I quit playing in 2004 but...... -
Twelve Days Of Christmas Flash Mobs: Hallelujah, eh!
Culture MonsterThis holiday season, Culture Monster is counting down to Christmas via flash mob. Each morning through Christmas Eve we'll share a new video of large groups of people singing and/or busting a choreographed move in a public place. Think of...... -
Twelve Days of Christmas Flash Mobs: Ding Dong Ding
Culture MonsterFor Tuesday, we're eschewing big budget flash for something a little more homegrown. Earlier this month, a group of youths calling themselves The North Hills High School Jazz Choir descended on the produce department of a suburban Pittsburgh Giant Eagle..... -
Twelve Days of Christmas Flash Mobs: Mind the gap
Culture MonsterWednesday's smile-inducing video is one of the original flash mobs, put on nearly three years ago by cellphone company T-Mobile at Liverpool Street Station in East London just after the morning rush. It's not Christmasy per se, but it does...... -
A breakdown of the 2011 YouTube Symphony winners
Culture MonsterThe creation of the YouTube Symphony two years ago was intended to marry the populist, borderless ethos of online culture with the highly competitive nature of the classical-music world. The 2011 class of winners announced Tuesday shows that the YouTube..... -
Monster Mash: Salvador Dalà museum opens in Florida; Metropolitan Museum of Art gets $10 million
Culture MonsterSurreal: A new museum devoted to artist Salvador Dalà officially opened on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Reuters) Big bucks: Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch are giving a gift of $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York......
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