Concerto in C Minor for Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericcsson
Actually, it’s called Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra, by composer David Baker. From an article in Reuters:
“Baker said in a statement this was first time in his career that he had finished a piece but did not know what the result would be…There’s just no way to replicate 1,000 cell phones going off at once,” he said. (Thank God).
Clever mash-up of classical and modern culture?
Brilliant method of injecting some interaction into a classical music performance?
Shameless marketing ploy?
Just a really dumb idea?
You be the judge:
World Premiere Performance
Sunday October 1st, 2:30 PM
Dominican University (7900 W. Division)
And if you happen to get pulled over on the way to the concert for DWT, just tell the po-lice you were practicing. That oughtta work.
(This concludes today’s nikkos triple-header.)