Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Rob Long ·
Jan 27 at 9:45am
Or, on the other hand, maybe not:
If you've got about a minute and a half, it's worth watching this video of Slovakian violinst Lukas Kmit, who manages to work with that irritating Nokia ringtone.
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Apr '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Mortifying! I could think of few things more embarrassing than having my cell phone go off in such a setting.
Kudos to the violinist for handling it with class.
May '10
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
The Nokia tone is lifted from a composition by Spanish classical guitarist Francisco Tarrega and was written in 1902. Needless to say, Francisco ain't getting much in residuals.
Mar '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
If you've got about a minute and a half
Today's a work day. We've got plenty of time. Keep 'em comin'.
Edited on Jan 27 at 10:12amJun '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
As Mollie said recently about tarmac, this is one of the best things about Ricochet: learning things like this.
Edited on Jan 27 at 10:22amAug '10
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
I was about to write that it's amazing that the violinist could figure out the Nokia ring tone by ear so quickly. Thanks for ruining the mystery of it all! ;-)
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Casey: If you've got about a minute and a half
Today's a work day. We've got plenty of time. Keep 'em comin'. · 25 minutes ago
Edited 24 minutes ago
Quote of the week!
Apr '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Casey: If you've got about a minute and a half
Today's a work day. We've got plenty of time. Keep 'em comin'. · 27 minutes ago
Edited 26 minutes ago
You're posting from . . . where? France, Greece, Washington, D.C.?
EJ, I was really, really impressed by that arcanum about the source for the ring tone, for about 30 seconds until Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube disabused me down to merely really impressed.
Here's Tarrrega's Gran Vals. The performer highlights the phrase a few seconds in.
Edited on Jan 27 at 11:03amMay '10
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Do you think it's possible that it's a Nokia marketing stunt?
Oct '10
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
Arguably the finest classical-music-slapdown-of-an-obnoxious-Nokia-user I've seen today.
Apr '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
The guy with the phone should have stood up and bowed to each sector of the room. Even Judas served his purpose.
Feb '11
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Fantastic, I'll repeat something, with your indulgence:
In a former life I built pipe organs. At the dedication concert for one of our new instruments, the renowned organist David Briggs was finishing a lovely quiet piece (a transcription for organ of a Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), when a cellphone began to sound some horrible little melody.
We sat there mortified.
His last piece was to be an organ improvisation for which he is justly famous.
But after the horrid cellphone mess, the ringtone just rang like a bell in the church's excellent acoustic, we wondered how he would respond.
He is a true gentleman, and he stood up and "thanked" the person, as only a Brit could do, damning them with polite understanding; and then he offered to improvise an original organ piece on a cellphone ring from the audience. This was when tunes on your cellphone had just become readily available. He ended up doing a 20 minute tour de force based on the theme from The Munsters and the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth.
It is the only time I've ever been glad a cellphone went off at a concert.
May '10
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I'm no musical genius... Just a fan of the BBC's QI
May '10
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I have mixed feelings on "understanding" responses like that. On the one hand, yes, it's admirable for a person to have a sense of humor and keep in mind how easy it is to leave a phone on by accident. On the other hand, people are more likely to remember to turn their phones off if embarrassed and ashamed than if let off easy all the time.
May '10
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Remind me to share a FB post I read recently about how some people are inclined toward order and others toward compassion ;-)
May '11
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Misthiocracy
I was about to write that it's amazing that the violinist could figure out the Nokia ring tone by ear so quickly. Thanks for ruining the mystery of it all! ;-) · 3 hours ago
I can say as a musician, this was impressive. Very unlikely he ever played this tune before (why would he?) Don't think he has perfect pitch, since he played in a different key, but these are difficult intervals to hear and he nailed it. Then expanded on the theme with a flourish. This guy has class, humor, and no small musical talent.
Oh, and the Bach was good, too!
Mar '11
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If he were a violinist, he would have pitched a hissy fit. It was because he is a violist that he could pull this stunt off.
Dec '11
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I couldn't agree more, Aaron Miller.
Dec '11
Re: Set Your Phone to Vibrate
I'd like to encourage more Main Feed posts on the subject of classical music; perhaps, Rob, you could convince the veritable Jay Nordlinger to weigh in now and then, particularly during the Salzburg Festival. !!