Damian Thompson over at his Telegraph blog has posted this Youtube video of the ever-so-familiar Nokia ringtone chirrup played by virtuoso pianist, Marc-Andre Hamelin.
As Diamian points out:
Hamelin has no difficulty turning the ringtone into a pretty waltz, because that maddening phrase is actually party of a waltz: the Gran Vals, by the Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. Presumably that means he doesn’t have to grapple with copyright issues…
Here’s the audio and the music:
Doesn’t sound so bad there, does it?
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