RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Keep it snappy - that's what social media is all about. Tweets, 140 characters; Snapchat video, no more than a handful of seconds. You can even catch quick music hits here and there. And now a classical concerto distilled to mere seconds.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Avi Avital is the classical mandolinist performing this concerto. It's just 75 seconds long.</s>AVI AVITAL: So the InstaConcerto, like we (laughter) name it, it's not even a miniature. It's like a micro- a nano-miniature.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: A micro-nano-miniature concerto, but still, one with five distinct movements. Avital has been posting one movement to his Instagram account every day this week.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This - this is what he posted Tuesday.</s>PETER BREINER: It ends, and everybody goes, oh, oh - is that it? Ah - oh, I want more.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: That's Peter Breiner who composed the concerto. He's hoping to reach people who might not be classical music listeners.</s>PETER BREINER: Who never experienced this before and have the feeling, oh, it's actually nice.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And since these are so short, we can probably fit in one more movement.
In this age of Twitter and Snapchat, we boil essays down to 140 characters, and videos can be no more than a handful of seconds. But what about a classical concerto? Can it be boiled down?