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dormouse1953) wrote2022-05-07 11:15 am
dormouse1953) wrote2022-05-07 11:15 am
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Isn't technology wonderful!
I went to a concert at the Barbican last night, the first time since February 2020. I like to buy a programme at the concert to remind of what I'm about to hear, and read the performers' biographies. I couldn't see them anywhere so I asked one of the attendants. She pointed me to a QR code on a stand by the entrance to the concert hall. You are supposed to be able to use your phone to read the code and download a programme. Nothing happened. The attendant tried herself on my phone, and she couldn't get it to work. Finally she pointed me to the cloakroom where there were paper print outs. The attendant there had noticed my problem and was running over with one.
At the interval I tried again. I have a QR reader app on my phone so I tried that. It detected the code and even gave me the URL of the programme, but nothing downloaded.
The bowels of the Barbican are notorious for poor mobile reception and there is a wi-fi down there, but I wasn't connecting to it.
When I got home after the concert I noticed an alert on my phone telling me the programme was now downloaded. I'm back there next Friday. I'll have to give it another go.
Mind you, it was a good concert. Nielsen's 4th Symphony, the "Inextinguishable" is not that often performed, the the timpani duel at the end was magnificent.
At the interval I tried again. I have a QR reader app on my phone so I tried that. It detected the code and even gave me the URL of the programme, but nothing downloaded.
The bowels of the Barbican are notorious for poor mobile reception and there is a wi-fi down there, but I wasn't connecting to it.
When I got home after the concert I noticed an alert on my phone telling me the programme was now downloaded. I'm back there next Friday. I'll have to give it another go.
Mind you, it was a good concert. Nielsen's 4th Symphony, the "Inextinguishable" is not that often performed, the the timpani duel at the end was magnificent.