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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OH Fuchs! It was bad Gluck that the cellphone had to ring and the conductor was Offenbach! The customer oughta go Chopin Faure a better phone!
Terrific! Bravo!
Not enough people listen to art music to make a statistically measurable difference to support your nutty notion.
Proof is in the pudding. Many a children's cartoon was accompanied by a classical score.
How do you know that?
You don't say!
Um no. Would you say the same thing about Shakespeare? or Michaelangelo? If they were Asian no one would care as much? Bach and Mozart pop up on lists of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known. The West just developed the cultural context and sense of the individual that allowed these great artists to flourish.
The fact that Asia never developed a viable harmonic system to support great composers is their problem. If you go to the Central Conservatory in Bejing, all the students want to play is Western Art music. There’s a reason for that.
Classical Ping
I have a new phone and I don’t think that I CAN turn it off. It rings through no matter how I try to get it off. It’s lucky that I don’t get very many calls, and the battery runs down really fast. When the battery is gone, then it is really dead.I’m going to have to go back to the teen who sold it to me for a refresher course.
We had something like that happen at the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Andreas Delfs his first season with us. But, it happened at the beginning of the piece, and he just stopped and glared at the patron. Then they started over. I think it was a wrist watch alarm and they were playing Beethoven’s Fifth.
Dum dum de de de DUM (ring ring)
This isn’t about classical music, it’s about courtesy.
Find a young person in your family to explain it to you.
John Cage would have loved it.
Did anyone else have to watch the paper-towel commercial telling us to “Bring it!” before being allowed to watch the video? Talk about defining military lingo down!
Mutiny on the Bounty!
Oh, my.
It could have happened in a different piece of music.
Or perhaps even in an earlier movement in this piece.
Or even perhaps earlier in the 4th movement of Mahler’s ninth.
But, seriously?
In the final minute and a half?
When Mahler is dying right in front of us? Where, indeed, the 20th century is dying...and some might argue that music itself is dying?
Seriously?
A marimba?
Oh, my.
The perp is on the s*** Lizst, that's for sure.
Do you have a source for that or are you just making things up as you go along? Name just one state that is moving to outlaw classical music in the car. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Listening to classical music actually increases my concentration and alertness. Having classical music in the background helps me get through a good book or a challenging spreadsheet at work.
Are you kidding me? Women don't pay to go anywhere. The man always pays for them.
“Women don’t pay to go anywhere. The man always pays for them. “
Oh man,another wiseguy——now back to the game.
Go Pats.
Cheers.
And the musicians were paid overtime? Seriously? What, they get paid by the minute?
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