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Music while you queue at the airport
Music while you queue at the airport
Scottish orchestral musicians take air travellers by surprise
Waiting for a plane has rarely been an amusing, surprising and enjoyable experience - unless a girl takes a flute out of her hand luggage and starts playing Ravel's Bolero. Ignore it, perhaps, but then a man going by pulls a clarinet out of his case and joins in. And then one notices the tapping sounds emerging from the soporific airport buzz. A bloke wheels up a drum on a trolley.
This is an unorthodox and very catchy enterprise that the RSNO have just pulled off for a smart, street-friendly piece of PR, which they put onto YouTube. Last Friday they pitched up at Glasgow Airport, with the sort of hand luggage that causes headaches at check-in desks, and entertained the passengers in the Food Hall. Friendly of them to shorten Bolero to a digestible four minutes' worth, rather than the full 15 minutes, which might well cause missed planes.
They've just uploaded another tube of their Scottish reels.
- More about the orchestra's activities on their website
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