Posted on 01/13/2012 2:20:09 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Concertgoers at the New York Philharmonic Tuesday night did not have to be musicologists to work out that the marimba was not part of the famous work.
Conductor Alan Gilbert halted the performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony when the offending iPhone ringtone sounded -- and persisted.
Just minutes from the end of the hour and a half-long piece, Gilbert turned to the phone's owner, seated close to the front of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, according to an eyewitness account published by "Superconductor" blogger Paul Pelkonen.
“The symphony ends incredibly quietly so there was literally no way that we could go on, Gilbert told NBC News. "So I stopped the music and I asked the general vicinity where the sound was coming from ‘please turn off your cellphone.’ And I had to ask several times..."
In the ensuing pause, some in the audience reportedly called for blood, shouting: "Kick him out!" and "$1,000 fine!" the witness recounted.
Gilbert quietly employed shame until the offender -- described as an elderly man by another blogger -- confirmed that the phone was off.
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Lol. That song makes me laugh every time....
You might be a redneck if......your Dukes of Hazard ringtone goes off during the finale of Mahler’s Ninth.
Because the pressure will be too much to Handel.
Should we contact the ping Lizst?
Cheers!
Well you sure made that one up out of the whole cloth. What, are you testing the asininity level of brazen lying that shills can get away with? Is this some sort of psyops calibration routine? Or are you just a cynical, flaming jerk?
LOL!
Bad, but lol...
Egregious is right.
A friend told me recently about how the preacher in his church exhorted everyone to please turn off their cell phones during church, going into some heated detail about it, and then proceeded into his sermon.
About ten minutes into it, a cell phone went off ... and to the preacher's chagrin, it was his own phone! Without losing a beat, he ranted: "That better be God callin'!"
The whole congregation practically fell on the floor laughing.
Interesting. Sounds like he turned off the phone like he was supposed to, but didn’t know there was a pre-set alarm...
I don’t know. If I had to listen to Mahler’s 9th, a Marimba ringtone would be a welcome distraction.
This means this could and can happen to anyone.
Poor fellow.
It is a thoughtful form of music and one needs to focus and have quiet to hear it in.
I have never heard classical music in a loud, crowded bar, and I don’t think it would work well there, I like listening to classical when I drive cross country.
Yep. And he likely feels rotten.
Maybe not if his iPhone gets baroque
By then, he might be able to Handel it.
Oh, Schumann!
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