<p>There is an interesting article in the NY Times about a new project of Google/YouTube. I wonder whether conservatories and colleges might eventually use this service for prescreening applicants?</p>
<p>I have to say my D absolutely loves YouTube. Thanks to it she has been able to hear (and see) the great opera singers from long long ago. I just think it's great that she can do her English or Math homework in one window of her laptop while another window is playing a video clip of some opera scene from an opera that might have been recorded in a country she has never visited, long before she was born!</p>
<p>Thanks for posting link...DD is a singer so won't do her any good but I sent the link to counselor at her school...Looks like something the kids might enjoy doing.</p>
<p>I have a student who was required to audition for a performance gig via Youtube....it was a show requiring three different performance mediums in a particular style....she said many theater, collaborative, and retrospective productions are auditioning through this format.</p>
<p>Lorelei---as a voice teacher would you caution young singers about posting performances? Im not very YOUTUBE savy, but I would hate to think of how long a youthful, "undeveloped" performance might influence someone elses opinion of a singer years later.</p>
<p>^^ I don't know enough about Youtube, but isn't it possible to delete clips that you might have uploaded yourself? Or are those clips like these posts we make on C.C- that last forever and cannot be deleted?</p>
<p>I think you can limit YouTube so things can be only be seen by people you invite - or am I making that up? I know you can set them so no comments can be made. </p>
<p>Anyway, a group performance that my D did at her last recital with her private teacher is on YouTube and it has been great sharing it with family so easily. I doubt anyone not looking for it would even find it and her name is not even tagged so searching for her wouldn't bring it up.</p>
<p>I am not sophisticated about how Youtube is set up, but a pseudonym could be used, only shared with those you choose to have view it. It could be searched by title of the piece, assuming that is listed with the piece. Performances by young singers who later become famous probably would have more cult appeal than anything else...I treasure some early/young LP recordings of favorite divas of yesteryear. Obviously a singer working professionally would not want anything less than very well done available on any public venue. My student who auditioned via Youtube is a mature professional, and she was willing to have what she put on Youtube be a professional audition, destined to be viewed and reviewed.</p>
<p>You can delete videos from YouTube, but there are also ways of saving videos that others have posted. Once something has been released on the Internet, there is no certain way of even knowing how many copies may have been made, let alone deleting all of them.</p>