“Without music, life would be a mistake.“

These are the soulful words of the impassioned, Slovakia-born viola player, Lukáš Kmit. He shares them on the homepage of his website. A site where a quick scroll of the mouse will unveil just how serious he is when it comes to the art of giving a flawless musical performance.

Kmit has won several prestigious awards for his mastery of the viola.

His mesmerizing skills with the strings landed him a performance at a gorgeous Jewish Orthodox Synagogue in his native country.

While it would be any musician’s dream to play to his countrymen from such a beautiful stage, Kmit experienced something that is every classical musician’s nightmare.

The violist’s enchanting recital was flowing along nicely when all of a sudden the brash sound of a ringing phone disrupted his performance.

Though the skillful musician would have been well within his rights to have a “diva” moment and get upset with the audience member, he responded in a much more effective way. Kmit was about to show his audience just what it means to transform life’s lemons into the sweetest lemonade. Musically speaking, of course.

Kmit was effortlessly carving out the notes to his classical concerto while the audience listened in awe.

The song crested into a dizzying array of lighter notes and, just as the violist was entering into the quietest portion of his masterpiece, a phone started blaring out a sound all too familiar from the entranced audience.

Someone’s phone went off in the classically annoying Nokia ringtone in the middle of the performance.

Kmit had just sawed the last note from his viola before a weighty pause in the song. Of course, fate would have it go off at the worst possible time. It’s not as if the ringtone went off quietly, either. It was as loud and obnoxious a sound as a heckler at a comedy show.

It was certainly enough to get the accomplished violist’s attention.

After the ringtone went off Kmit, for the first time since the recording began, looks up from his viola. He shoots out a glare to the audience for a brief but pointed moment. It’s a look that would make most people cringe.

Taking it in stride, though, Kmit turns his head back to his instrument’s chin rest to continue the performance.

You can see the sweat where it has been pouring down the side of his face. He may be a master of his trade, but it still takes intense focus to pull it off. That concentration had all been blasted by the ringtone.

Unbelievably, just as Kmit is readying himself for the next portion of the song, the ringtone blasts out again.

This time, Kmit has a reaction to the interruption, and it’s one for the halls of fame.

The highly trained violist gets the slightest smirk on his face just before hijacking the notes to the ringtone. This is what unleashing your fury in the classiest of ways looks like.

Kmit abruptly swings toward the audience, waggling his eyebrows as he saws out the irritating Nokia tune. He even makes it his own, throwing in myriad accompanying notes that make us wonder why Nokia didn’t contract with him to create the song in the first place.

When he draws it to a close, a cacophony of applause erupts from the audience. All were pleased with his witty and elegant “outburst” at the interruption.

Thankfully, someone in the crowd got the whole thing on video. Since being uploaded nearly 9 years ago, it’s still raking in the views and introducing the world to the art of the viola takedown. Trust us, there’s a reason it’s still popping up in people’s “recommended” feed.

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Source: greatmilan/Lukas Kmit