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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2002-10-08 06:00
I heard a story that at some point (perhaps not too long ago?) the New York Philharmonic was playing a concert and that some lady's cellphone went off and she began to talk on it. And the conductor stopped the concert and waited for her to finish. Is it true? Anyone know where I can read that article?
Alexi
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-10-08 11:53
There was a commissioned work that followed, where an avant-garde composer requested the dialing numbers of cellular phones in the audience, programmed in distinctive rings and had the strings play along with the phones for a brief piece.
It was not requested again.
The quickest remedy to this problem involves liquids.
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Author: Robert
Date: 2002-10-08 12:34
I play in the Zürich opera house. In one of our performances somebody's cell phone went off. The conductor (Nello Santi) stopped the show, turned around to shout at the audience in Italian, gave the note to the singer and carried on again. I'm glad I wasn't that person with the cell phone!
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Author: Suzanne
Date: 2002-10-08 21:07
This happened at an LA Phil concert and Mr. Salonen asked the individual to take it outside.
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Author: Baz
Date: 2002-10-08 22:17
I was at a concert being given by a Jazz Pianist near where I live, he was playing a rather tasteful medium pace number when a cell phone rang, the guy answered it and began to talk, the pianist came to a full stop and looked at the guy and said very loudly into the microphone just one word "TWIT" the said guy never even noticed, at this point the audience went into hysterics, he still did not notice, he finished the phone call and settled back into his seat as if nothing had happened...one of the audience went over to him, he was at a table on his own, and had a quick word, he left!
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2002-10-09 02:19
In our orchestra the string players are so stupid that their watches are constantly beeping during concerts. 2 weeks ago a cell phone went off in a violinists purse {during a concert} and half the violins started looking at their watches.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2002-10-09 05:02
One thing that I've noticed and it seems strange. The majority of our customers (I work a very busy auto parts store), are rappers or heavy metal types and wouldn't be caught dead listening to classical music, live or recording. But most of their cell phones are programmed with Mozart and such.
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Author: Melanie
Date: 2002-10-10 06:31
The worst case I've heard about was actually a graduate student's recital at our university. A cell phone went of in the middle of a piece. We came to find out that the phone was owned by her teacher.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-10-10 12:49
The installation of cell-free zones has been accomplished by Milliwatt, broadband transmitters in some restaurants to establish
'Quiet areas'.
The funniest instance I have ever heard was at a hockey game, where a '5th wheel' behind us yapped incessantly through the National anthem...to his mother.
I now have a standard line to use, "So, will your Mommy let you stay out past 9?"
The less polite version involves a greeting to 'Your wife and my kids', but we save that for the referees.
I think two things need to happen at concerts, since decorum is lacking and is something not included in ticket prices;
An announcement about fire safety and ejection for audible alerts.
"applaud here" written in the program to prevent interruption between movements.
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Author: TC
Date: 2002-10-14 18:44
I went to a concert by Segovia where someone in a box blew his nose just at the start of a piece. Segovia stopped, set his guitar down on the chair, pulled his own handkerchief out with a flourish and honked into it in the direction if the box. The he sat down and resumed.
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