Video: Orch musicians start playing on delayed US flight
mainFour Grammy-winning members of the Seattle Symphony, on their way to Palm Springs, suffered a disagreeable setback when the Alaska Air plane turned around and was sent back to gate.
To keep their fellow-passengers happy, the four – violinists Mikhail Shmidt and Elisa Barston, violist Susan Gulkis Assadi and cellest Walter Gray – got out their instruments and played a quartet movement. The flight soon got lift-off.
I could record with my camera, since I was at this fly. Unfortunatelly due to copy, image rights etc blablablá I cannot issue it at Youtube or any other similar platform. That’s ok, It will die with me, only.
Landscape mode people – not portrait mode – when filming on your camera. Sigh…
At least they had their instruments with them rather than being destroyed in the baggage hold. Tick one for Alaska Air.
Agreed with Peter Lovett!
The logistics in terms of space to do this must have been quite challenging in economy; in the light of their spontaneous generosity, should they perhaps have been upgraded to first class?
The video should be published (subject to the permission of the quartet; just give it the title Flightless in Seattle and it would go viral!