How Mahler's 9th sounds with ringtone obbligato

How Mahler's 9th sounds with ringtone obbligato

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norman lebrecht

January 13, 2012

Eduardo Strausser has sent me a doctored video of Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler’s 9th symphony, demonstrating how an ill-disciplined phone can wreck the ending – as it did in New York this week.

Comments

  • Perfect! Thanks for the re-enactment. Odd, it sounds just like John Cage…

  • JMW says:

    Ive’s would have thought it grand.

  • Jim Richter says:

    CLASSICal

  • Siva Oke says:

    Methinks that someone is pulling our leg. This is the same ringtone as on my I-Phone, incidentally, and it certainly wasn’t around in 1990 while Bernstein was still alive! Nice try, though…

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