I once was attending a really weird classical concert
It was in a tiny Mexican town in the middle of nowhere, the majority of the town having less than 10.000 inhabitants
The main church in the main square was the setting for a night performance of some famous classical orchestra from New York.
Mind you, this is already weird because the place is really in theiddle of nowhere, it’s only farmers and poor people there. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this orchestra was willing to perform there, and the people deserved something nice, but very unexpected.
So they setup in the church, all cramped because there isn’t that much space, people sit down, the orchestra director gives a little speech in English that gets translated, and then they are about to start. The director taps his stick a few times, the first tune comes out and POOOFFF. electricity gone. Pure darkness. Comedic timing could not have been better.
This was before mobile phones (this was around 2005, IIRC) so nobody had a flash light. At first it was everyone giggling a little bit, and someone quickly ran outside to fetch a flash light so that the director could be visible and talk a little more about who they were etc until power would come back.
10 minutes in, the power does come back, so we can start playing, yay, everybody happy! So the orchestra starts playing, it’s beautiful, and then I see this poor sweet large street dog wandering in, looking for scraps to eat. The dog goes straight for the orchestra playing and starts mingling with the musicians, walking under their legs, sniffing their bare legs (it was hot, most were in shorts) pushing them aside while they are playing, slapping their legs with his tail.
The show must go on so nobody does anything to stop the dog (there was no space for anyone to walk around there) but since none of the musicians expect a wet nose on their legs, you constantly hear some musician suddenly screeching their instrument and looking at wtf is that, then continuing to play and the dog goes on to the next musician who then REALLY toots their horn, literally, because out of the blue, the dog jumps with its two paws on their lap. Soon you hear laughter from the audience and orchestra alike, and everyone just went with it, because it was awesome and funny.
Hands down the best classical concert I’ve ever been to, it was so beautiful and so much fun!
I once was attending a really weird classical concert
It was in a tiny Mexican town in the middle of nowhere, the majority of the town having less than 10.000 inhabitants
The main church in the main square was the setting for a night performance of some famous classical orchestra from New York.
Mind you, this is already weird because the place is really in theiddle of nowhere, it’s only farmers and poor people there. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that this orchestra was willing to perform there, and the people deserved something nice, but very unexpected.
So they setup in the church, all cramped because there isn’t that much space, people sit down, the orchestra director gives a little speech in English that gets translated, and then they are about to start. The director taps his stick a few times, the first tune comes out and POOOFFF. electricity gone. Pure darkness. Comedic timing could not have been better.
This was before mobile phones (this was around 2005, IIRC) so nobody had a flash light. At first it was everyone giggling a little bit, and someone quickly ran outside to fetch a flash light so that the director could be visible and talk a little more about who they were etc until power would come back.
10 minutes in, the power does come back, so we can start playing, yay, everybody happy! So the orchestra starts playing, it’s beautiful, and then I see this poor sweet large street dog wandering in, looking for scraps to eat. The dog goes straight for the orchestra playing and starts mingling with the musicians, walking under their legs, sniffing their bare legs (it was hot, most were in shorts) pushing them aside while they are playing, slapping their legs with his tail.
The show must go on so nobody does anything to stop the dog (there was no space for anyone to walk around there) but since none of the musicians expect a wet nose on their legs, you constantly hear some musician suddenly screeching their instrument and looking at wtf is that, then continuing to play and the dog goes on to the next musician who then REALLY toots their horn, literally, because out of the blue, the dog jumps with its two paws on their lap. Soon you hear laughter from the audience and orchestra alike, and everyone just went with it, because it was awesome and funny.
Hands down the best classical concert I’ve ever been to, it was so beautiful and so much fun!