YouTube’s Carnegie Hall Fantasy Collides With Reality

“[W]hat everyone was really hoping for was a wonderful musical experience to complete the fairy-tale idea that strangers at all levels of ability, from professionals to music students to hobbyists, could come together and join in top-flight musicmaking. Unfortunately, as Wednesday’s concert demonstrated, that’s the stuff of video, not reality. Music, it turns out, isn’t a language universal enough that people can converse in it easily right off the bat.”