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YouTube must have thought it was generating the week's major online music story when it assembled a symphony orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas to perform in Carnegie Hall. The auditions were held across the World Wide Web as musicians made videostreamed submissions. Sure enough ABC took the bait Monday as John Berman previewed the concert and NBC sent Chris Jansing to Spokane to profile trumpeter Eric Moe.
Then along came Susan Boyle. The 47-year-old Scottish spinster made the disdainful celebrity panel of Britain's Got Talent eat crow by belting out a crowdpleasing I Dreamed a Dream. The video went viral and has now been seen by a 6m global audience online. ABC's David Muir covered the sensation Tuesday but his network did not post a videostream of Muir's story. CBS has made its package available. "You could just about hear the sound of jaws dropping around the land," reflected Mark Phillips as he found his way to the local pub where Boyle sings karaoke--and Tilson Thomas' Carnegie concert is consigned to relative obscurity.
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