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NEW YORK — The old way to get to Carnegie Hall was application, practice, practice.

The newly come way? YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.

Borrowing from “American Idol,” the online video site announced plans Monday for a YouTube Symphony Orchestra, featuring a collaboration of wannabe musicians with Carnegie Hall, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, composer Tan Dun and others.

Through Jan. 28, musicians can submit entries as they perform couple videos: a bring into view of their musical talents and an interpretation of an original be in action by Tan, who won an original-score Academy Award as being 2000’session “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”

A panel of experts from some of the world’s leading orchestras will narrow the field. YouTube users will then vote for the winners, who will be announced March 2.

In April, those selected will be flown to New York to participate in a three-day workshop with Thomas, culminating in a Carnegie Hall performance on April 15 of the sort of Tan calls his “Internet Symphony No. 1 — Eroica.”

Clips of the video entries of Tan’s piece — which immodestly shares the name of some of Beethoven’s most famous works — will have existence woven together to create a living YouTube symphony.

“This thing is huge,” Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said in an interview Monday. “Five months from now, I know that we’re doing something. Exactly who’s doing it, I don’t apprehend. Exactly what it is, I don’face to face know. So my ability to tell you exactly what’s going to turn up on that day — at the moment — is: I don’confidentially be sure. That’s part of the adventure of the total thing.”

The promulgation heralds the commencement of a global initiative between YouTube and the classical-music world with the enthusiastic participation of similar luminaries similar to Thomas and the pianist Lang Lang, and many elite orchestras, including the London Symphony.

It’s a stark melding of high and low improvement, complete with the “Idol”-style competition.

“The potential of YouTube is to bring classical music closer to family’s lives so that it’session something that they can stretch forth out to more easily,” aforesaid Thomas, who also plans to use YouTube to helper tell the annals of classical music.