Elgartones How does an Elgarian keep Elgar around other than in one’s thoughts. You can carry a picture, wear a shirt with the composer’s likeness embroidered on it, or sport a key chain with his autograph. Yes, there is a fondness for Edward Elgar, the person, but what most people want is his music. Can Elgar’s Romantic-period music join hands with today’s high-tech world? The answer is YES. Most everyone today carries a mobile cell phone. In a crowded room you can hear all different sorts of rings when people get a cell phone call. There’s the basic “ring,” the “Nokia Tone” which you’d recognize and is programmed into most of their phones, and then there’s the “melody.” Melodies are built into most phones and the preponderance of them are available on outside websites. These websites list melodies by genre with “Classical” melodies being short-changed compared to the many rock, rap, and contemporary ones. If you try and find an Elgar melody, Good Luck!!! Maybe you’ll get lucky and find “Pomp and Circumstance #1 and that’s it. Wouldn’t it be great if there could be an Elgar Ringtones website? A website that had nothing but Elgar. A website where you could download any part of his music you wanted. ALAS, the future is now and such a website exists!!!!! It is: http://elgartones.mstore.xingtone.com The American Elgar Foundation runs it at no charge. A maximum of three Elgar pieces are available for immediate download. These three compositions can be changed every day. However, if you don’t see the piece or part of the piece you desire, simply call 1-800-262-4957 and ask for Lee Kaufman. Within a week it will be placed on the website for download to your cell phone. So, no matter where you are and what you are doing, if someone wants to get a hold of you, they will have to go through ELGAR! What a nice thing to have happen. The service is now only available in North America and not on all phone models. However, more models are being added as well as countries. Yes, THE ELGARTONES might sound like a ‘50’s doo-wop rock group. However, its time has come and you too can own one.