Pianist recovers after orchestra plays the wrong concerto

As the orchestra beings to play a Mozart concerto in this video, renowned pianist Maria João Pires' face forms into a panicked smile and she drops her head into her hand.

The orchestra is playing the wrong concerto. As Mozart's no. 20 in D minor K466 rings out in the auditorium, played by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw conducted by Riccardo Chailly, the pianist stares off and speaks to the conductor momentarily, telling him she had prepared to play something else.

What happens next is the reason this short documentary footage has been shared many times from YouTube, and why, several years later, it's still being posted on websites such as the Daily Telegraph.

"You played it last season, you know it so well," the conductor says to a frantic Pires.

She collects herself, pulls away and rubs her face, looking worried, then places her fingers on the piano and proceeds to play.

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"The miracle is that she has such memory that she could, within a minute, switch to a new concerto without making one mistake," Chailly says in the video.

More recently — on Thursday in fact — another musician recovered from his own blunder while performing at Game 2 of the World Series. James Taylor was supposed to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at the game in Boston, but as CNN reported, the words came out all wrong at first.

Taylor began with the first lyric of America the Beautiful, but then, with a quick finger adjustment on his guitar, he launched into the correct song and carried through.

Later in the game, Taylor did perform America the Beautiful.