Jan
14
Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to Stop Shame
The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night. The conductor, Alan Gilbert, did something almost unheard-of in a concert hall: He stopped the performance. But the ringing kept on going, prompting increasingly angry shouts in the audience directed at the malefactor.
I felt a little mortified just reading this article, for the patron in question. Can’t quite imagine just how intensely he was feeling it himself.
