Classical flashmob performs on Copenhagen subway (VIDEO)
Commuters on a Copenhagen metro train were treated to a performance by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, live, as the musicians broke out their instruments and played the soothing strains of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
Riding public transportation has never been this pleasant.
Commuters on a Copenhagen metro train were treated to a performance by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, live, as the musicians broke out their instruments and played the soothing strains of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, according to NPR.
NPR noted that the Copenhagen Philharmonic had already performed Ravel's Bolero for a surprised crowd at Copenhagen Central Station last May.
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The Huffington Post noted that someone claimed the director of the video was already addressing doubts that the music was recorded on the subway, stating that "3 cameramounted mics, two microports glued to the ceiling, one stereo mic" were all that went into recording the music live.
The project was apparently a collaboration between the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Radio Klassisk.
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The Atlantic recalled that this wasn't the first instance of classical music and public transport intersecting, mentioning when The Washington Post set up an experiment to have the world-renowned Joshua Bell perform on a priceless Stradivarius. The result was that most of the 1,000 plus commuters in the DC subway station were mostly unaffected and ignorant of the classical performance in their midst.
The commuters in Copenhagen were decidedly not apathetic, as this video of the performance shows: