Chicago Sinfonietta:

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please turn ON your Cell Phones! Ring in our 20th Season with the World Premiere of David Baker’s Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra — bring your phone and play a part in this history-making event!

The concertino calls for the audience and members of the orchestra’s percussion section to utilize their cellular phones at various points throughout the piece. Audience members will be divided into different sections and cued with red and green lights to turn on and off their phones. They will also be encouraged to randomly increase and decrease the volume of their ring tones and try to recognize familiar tune fragments on the ring tones sounding on orchestra members’ cell phones, Baker said.