Top 5 Interrupted Classical Performances! 

That moment when the fire alarm is in the same key of the piece you are playing!

“Go ahead honey it’s only one tornado just keep going I’m sure it fine”

3:40 "you were so hot the fire alarm went off" that was great lol

"My teacher told me to keep going" *Tornado swoops in swipes teacher*

Like on the sinking Titanic... They continue to play until the bitter end

TWOSETVIOLION:The fire alarm have saved everybodys ears from viola.

3:12 I thought she was doing some sort of jazzy glissando 😂😂😂😂😂

2:07 that siren kind of fit beautifully I thought. It made me picture like a post-apocalyptic kind of somber landscape. Lol.

1:00 hey wait for your kid

2:05 the siren somehow added to the music. Kind of felt like a movie.

Scariest thing is how casually everyone responds to what they must have heard too many times as a false alarm.

Some of these people in the comments don’t know how the life of a musician is. We continue playing no matter the situation.

Should not we evacuate immediately after hearing an alarm?

Fire alarm goes off. Keeps playing, crowd stays seated. Good job. #1

Jeez; don't mess with a tornado siren! Stop playing!

It's okay I'll keep playing my teacher said so, it's just another Tornado I mean what's the worst that can happen, we get sucked out of the roof and die but let me keep playing just a little more 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The last one was the most chill reaction to a fire alarm I have ever seen

1:03 Unconcerned mother marching off and leaving her kid to catch up, it's a good job the rest of the people didn't panic to get out.

The same sort of thing happened during our Halloween concert, while we were playing "Ghostbusters." The fire alarm went off and no one really knew if it was part of our show or an actual fire alarm.

An adult and a child need to be taught that when a alarm is activated you react to it and exit the building or area. DO NOT ASSUME IT IS A FALSE ALARM. Shame on all that don't!!!💨

1:38 bruh that’s one of my favorite parts of any song I’ve ever played in wind ensemble, I’d be so upset if it got ruined lol

Oh don’t worry it’s just a tornado that could kill you just keep going

Like how the last person wanted to stop playing but the piano girl just continued playing with a dead Pokerface like nothing in the world was going to stop her 😂 that’s the spirit

i like to imagine all of these musicians just playing as the building around them crumbles to pieces as they just keep going, barely audible

When I was in high school ('63-'65) there would be random fire drills once in a while during the day. I was in a concert band rehearsal when it went off. Our director told us to leave our instruments on our chair and walk carefully out. We were on the 3rd floor, long walk down and when the drill was over, all 100 of us plus who ever else was assigned to that stairwell had the long walk back up. When we resumed the rehearsal some how my clarinet wouldn't play. I couldn't blow through and at that time I had a brandnew pro horn.......I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. When I attempted to swab it out my swab wouldn't go through. My band director had placed a dime between my barrel and the end of the top joint so no air could get through! VERY FUNNY.....ha, ha. He was always pulling stuff like that. He had a Doctorate from Julliard on clarinet. During that period we had a nationally known band. We marched through the '64 New York World's Fair as the Honor Band on Wisconsin Day, three Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades, three Rose Bowl Parades, the Washington Cherry Blossom Festival, and several Walt Disney World Electric Light Parades through the grounds. The senior 1st Chair clarinet player graduated from Julliard with a Doctorate on Clarinet and has been the professor of clarinet at the University of North Carolina-Chapple Hill for the past forty years performing all over the world. Another senior also went to Julliard on trumpet. Others studied music at various other colleges. My sister won a full tuition scholarship to the Eastman School of Music on harp. She was the harp faculty at the University of Denver, first call union harpist and played with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. I don't think there were any concert interrupted performances as far as I knew.

Yes but phone ringing during performance and clap in the middle of the performance ... are the worst at least for me

What amazes me is how everyone just looks around to see what's going on and if the person next to them gets up and leaves the building (for fire). When that alarm goes off you get out as fast as you can. I've experienced this in a print shop where I worked, when a fire drill one week turned out to be a real fire the next week. Guys were working an the roof with a blow torch putting on new roofing felt and the roof caught fire and within minutes it went up like a tinderbox. As you may know a print shop is full of ink and paper, highly flammable items. With the place filling up with smoke and flames starting to come in from the roof, everyone just stood around to see what was going to happen. And who's shouting at everyone to get out fast? Well that was me as I quickly got to the front door. That one in ten, or even a hundred false alarms can turn out to be the real thing.

Was in a production of Don Giovanni (with a modern staging) the opening scene already had flashing police lights, but on the last show the fire alarm started going off during the scene. Because the audience thought it was part of the new production, they stayed in their seats while the soprano and tenor were singing, who then stopped and waved while the stage manager got on the speaker to tell people to evacuate. The audience evacuated, meanwhile, the cast and orchestra stayed in costume downstairs, alarm still going off, waiting for the all clear. After about 10 minutes the alarm stopped, the audience returned and the opera resumed

Number 5, nothing better than a fire alarm to go along with the song. Number 4, the band goes on, ish Number 3, the band also goes on, ish Number 2, I thought it was a drill, but I was wrong, that could have been bad, but it wasnt, horray Number 1, the alarm was right in sync with the note she played, loved it.

Imagine being a tornado and not being able to hear good nice music because every time you get close everybody hast to run away ;(

Some of y'all just don't get 1- the musicians mentality of "whatever you do don't stop playing" and 2- the midwesterners mentality of "oh it's just a tornado siren. It's fine."

She was playing amazing grace to herself as the tornado approached

The third building in the video brings back so many memories to me. It almost made me tear up.

As a parent, I am so upset at that teacher for telling her to ignore a tornado siren. Not only did that risk her safety in this instance, but it teaches her that 'adults ignore those things so I will too'. Great example.

At 2:08 --she should have transposed it up a 4th and played in the key of the siren. That would have been funny.

0:24 A performance that set the room on fire! LOL

My junior year Christmas concert someone pulled the fire alarm as all the chiors were about to go onstage. So we just sang the last song together outside among the audience. I think it was one if the best performances of my high school career.

The tornado one was so scary lmao

I't amazing how they all HEAR THE ALARM and just stay there _wondering_ if they should move or not. In my work place we have alarm drills for fire and tornado and the safety people get really pissed off and disappointed when people don't get out of the building when fire or down to the basement when tornado fast enough.

LOL, the best comment for Aurora Mendez @ the end... He nailed it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The performances were just that 🔥 that the alarms had to go off

Tornado sirens went off in the middle of a musical I was in. That was back when they were set off by county so nothing happened near us.

What's wrong with these people?! As soon as I hear an alarm I'm " 💃💨💨💨💨"

Omg listen to the alarm!! Coming from a musician (sax for 10 years, vocalist for 15). If everything is fine, you'll just pick up where you left off. If everything ISN'T fine, you'll be glad you, oh I don't know.... *listened to the alarm*

Alarms: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! People: but but but music...

3:26 Will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? I repeat will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here.

It doesn’t seem like the alarms are alarming anyone

The viola playing was so bad, ling ling burned down the place.

Once people were talking so the conductor stopped us and turned around and WENT OFF

Well, I have been a volunteers at an annual international classical concert festival in the UK for the past 18 years. We had our share of fire alarms, and I can tell you, at the first tone of the fire alarm, the performance stops and the audience is evacuated ! It is utterly incomprehensible how these kids and adults continue to play and keep sitting in their seats as if nothing happens. Very unprofessional venue staff.

Well the first one was lit so Btw as a musicians we play till the death 😂

thats the most emotional tornado siren ever :*(

That's a good husband right there! He was like "no hunny, don't tell your student to keep playing. We have to go NOW."

this is how we are supposed to evacuate in school but we know everybody would give in to panic

In the first clip, the pianist looked so shy

Fire alarm:

Tornado sirens are no joke. You have seconds to get to safety. Thank God for His amazing grace that they were not all harmed.

Why can't we have the Top 100 Interrupted Classical Performances ?!!

Imagine Haydn's "Fire" symphony (#59) interrupted by such an alarm.

2:09 ... is it bad if I preferred the tornado siren to the recital?

Personally, depending on the situation, I would just ignore it and keep playing. My university is made out of brick.

If he were quick with a joke, he should've said..."Well, when you're on fire, you're really on fire"

That last one, it actually sounded like it was part of the music.

I like how the sirens are in perfect tune!

I love how the guy casually paused, bowed and slowly proceeded to leave the building when there is a possible FIRE in the building

#1 " *You are so hot!* "...the fire alarm got turned on. 🤣 Kudos to the man who made that comment.

3:11 The siren takes over seamlessly from the violin.

Quite telling of musicians’ way of life how long everybody kept playing

It's shocking how many people just keep sitting there, not batting an eyelid while a deafening alarm goes off. What happened to your survival instincts? If I'm hearing a fire alarm, I'm hauling my ass out of building ASAP, no matter what!

Honestly when the fire alarm was going off they didnt seem too concerned the first time.

I was in one of 5 bands performing in a high school, fortunately we were on and out first. The show runner had a fog machine going the whole time and around the time the third band was out, sure enough the fog set the fire alarm off. Last time he tried that.

I thought the tornado was going to blow the entire rooftop as well as the piano away.Imagine my disappointment.

The one with the tornado alarm looks like a scene out of a movie.

I think the alarm in the same key as the piece made them continue for a bit ahaha it was so awesome

fire alarm saved the christmas concert.

Huh im lucky that its hella rare to have a tornado in C. America

*Maybe the performance was that LIT*

Don’t know if anyone ever recorded it but a few years ago my school and a few others performed the premiere of a piece called the elements with the BBC singers, which ended with loud exclamations of “Fire! Fire!” as a rousing finale. Well anyway, just as that was happening the fire alarm went off 😂😂

A fire alarm went off in the middle of my middle school's orchestra concert, turns my friend's little brother pulled it lmao

Once in a tech rehearsal our fog machine set off the fire alarms. Long story short, the fire department came to tech rehearsal.

that first fire alarm just wanted to duet

I know the last girl 😮 She lived here in Chile some years ago. Good to see her again!

the last one...i must say the alarm fit the song hahah wow that was all a good performance. Pity it must stop

The fire alarm sounded so real on the first clip, I thought my dorm was going through a fire drill! O.o

Omg the teacher said keep going Even though the tonardo was so near them and the siren is on

One time I was at a music camp where the fire alarms were malfunctioning and in one day they went or 5 or 7 times!

The music was so fire the alarms were triggered.

Musicians: tie fo a relaxed concert Natural disasters: hole my turbulence

I can see the reaction on the ladies faces as the evacuation announcement came on 3:32

a fire alarm went of in one of my piano concerts once

The tornado alarm during the violin piece just sounds something from Godspeed You! Black Emperor

I must be fucking dyslexic. Here I was waiting for the best “interpretations” of classical music.

0:23 !!! Viola Warning !!!

Fire alarm: hey uh.. there's a fire!!! Band: PLAY ON!!

Thank God a fire alarm was pulled during the fourth one

There are some InStruments that interupted a whole music piece :/ example like while a pianist playing turkish march, there's a random orchestra came in and play as classical sound and it just sound worse

0:33 that guy’s freakin’ shout was louder than the alarm Jesus.

the last one is the best

Nokia ringtone: allow me to introduce myself...

The last one played real good