A Violin and an iPad Walk into a Concert Hall

The other day, I had the opportunity to see a concert that featured a string quartet and a piano playing wonderful classical music. What I didn’t realize until after the concert when I walked over to where the musicians were, was that on their music stands instead of sheet music, there were tablets, and on the floor were electronic pedals that they were using to turn the pages of the music.

It is really amazing to have seen this modern technology interacting with instruments that were created quite literally hundreds of years ago.

Although I think that technology in so many ways can be a distraction in our everyday lives and take away sometimes from the experience we’re having in the moment, to see this combination of modern technology and these ancient things working so beautifully together in this wonderful way was a real pleasure indeed.