That really sucks. People paid good money to be swept away by the music, and had to be rudely returned to reality by some idiot that couldn’t shut his phone off.
They shouldn’t allow phones in these types of venues.
That guy will have to go into Haydn. (HA!)
The man probably fell asleep.
There’s a reason they advise people that have trouble falling to sleep to listen to classical music.
Several states are moving to outlaw to listening to classical music as you drive. The number of accidents caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel has become almost epidemic.
Notice they NEVER identify the guy BECAUSE he’s a LEFTIST!
My wife and I were watching an early episode, maybe the first, of Get Smart. he was sitting in a movie theater when his shoe phone started ringing. It was even funnier now than I remember it being when I first saw it in the 1960’s.
It really is amazing, though. They ask people to silence their cell phones prior to a seminar session, movie, religious service, concert, or whatever, and still, the inconsiderate jerks leave them on.
Unforgiveable ...
Now, if his ringtone had just been “I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay. I sleep all night and I work all day...” then I can see giving him some slack.
You might be a redneck if......your Dukes of Hazard ringtone goes off during the finale of Mahler’s Ninth.
Egregious is right.
I don’t know. If I had to listen to Mahler’s 9th, a Marimba ringtone would be a welcome distraction.
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!
Classical Ping
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.
And the musicians were paid overtime? Seriously? What, they get paid by the minute?