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...believe you can be just as competitive as you are now when you reach 50? Michael Schmim ROCKFORD...
Rachel Hsieh, a 24-year-old cellist studying for a master's at the Peabody Conservatory, filmed her audition in her Baltimore apartment. She sees the YouTube Symphony as a way to reach audiences beyond music aficionados: "A lot of people are exposed to YouTube, and they go on there for fun. It's a really easy way for them to just click on something and see something...
...believes that "orchestras need to figure out how to be relevant and reach new audiences," the most fascinating aspect of the YouTube orchestra is its vision of community. "The purpose of music and maybe even the purpose of life is to connect with people and create," he says. Whether that will work musically is anyone's guess. But it is undoubtedly, as Moe puts it, a "really fun experiment." And for the performers, there's not much to lose. "I'm so glad someone is footing the bill!" Moe says...
...other participants, there are benefits beyond the chance to expand the reach of classical music. When Hannah Tarley, the California teenager, asked to get her ears pierced about seven years ago, her mother told her she'd be allowed to do so only if she performed at Carnegie Hall. It used to be that the way to get to Carnegie Hall was to practice, but the world is a little different now. She practiced - and then she uploaded her video - and then she got there...
Zandi sketched out his "timeline to recovery," which sounds fairly optimistic. The stock market bottomed out in the first three months of 2009, he believes. (He'd originally expected this to happen last November; instead it was in March.) Home prices should reach their lowest point by the end of the year. ("I feel very confident about this.") The fiscal-stimulus program should start to work by this summer. Unemployment will peak in the second quarter of 2010. And economic expansion should begin again in the fall of 2010. "My point is, things can turn pretty quickly," Zandi said, chuckling...