In a new push to expand the market for classical music, Carnegie Hall is launching free live webcasts to reach beyond the aging in-house audience at the venerable New York institution. Medici TV, a six-year-old French company that has already webcast many of Europe's premier classical events, will start its collaboration with Carnegie Hall on Tuesday with a recital by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. "Medici TV is literally bringing our program into people's homes, where I hope that we'll be able to recreate that sensation of a gathering of friends celebrating music together," said DiDonato, who last week sang the national anthem at the final game of baseball's World Series. Clive Gillinson, executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, noted that most people in the world could not come to the 2,800-seat New York venue.
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