Funny things overheard at concerts :D

[Opus106]

About two minutes into the Berg violin concerto, a girl asked her bf: "When will they be done with tuning and start playing?"

I asked that myself when I heard it for the first time. But I was at home, not at a concert venue.

[springrite]

During a piano recital in which a short modern piece was being played: "I didn't realize my 3 year-old is a composer!"

[Alpha86]

I have one which just happened in my last concert. Not so funny, more like annoying.

I was attending a Beethoven's 4th PC concert and the auditorium was silent enough when the pianist started to play those magical opening chords. It was perfectly fine until the first bar is over and the lady behind me, recognising the music, suddenly said: "Oh, I love this" to her friend before the pianist even completed the opening phrase! Needless to say, I was really annoyed because to me that opening phrase is 50% make or break of a great performance of the piece.

[listener]

A piano teacher behind me, who apparently never got past Ethelbert Nevin, remarked on noticing the next on the program was a Telemann flute concerto, "Oh, he's German!  I hope it's not too modern".

[12tone.]

Things I can come up with 'cause I'm bored:


From the folks nearby:


10) "Honey, look!  The timanist is nodding off.  Get your phone out so we can take a picture.  This is goin' to get tweeted"

9) "Mmm.  Yes, wonderful tempo.  Mmm.  I see.  Wonderful.  Ahhh, yes....wow."

8 ) "This beef jerky is unreal sweetheart"

7) "Psssst....yeah, get the Menuhin"

6) "Daddy, I'm going to get sick!"

5) "Oh you mean they're just warming up?  Whew!"

4) "Where's Hilary Hahn?"

3) "So this is what classical music sounds like."

2) "Just throw up in your water bottle, honey"


and the number one fake thing!


1) "BROVO!  BROVOOOOOO!!"

[Saul]

A man with a butterfly tie leans over to his wife and mutters to her ear:

"What in the world are we doing here?"

[Brian]

Last night at the LSO, there was an audience member with a serious mohawk - as in, the parts of his head that were not mohawk were completely shaved, and the mohawk itself was four inches tall and tipped with blond dye. He was wearing a blue T-shirt. The T-shirt said:

Morpheus thinks that Neo is
THE ONE
He isn't.
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER
is
THE ONE

[snyprrr]

My mom is the consummate Blue Hair.

"Oh,...what is THAT??"

"I like what pleases my ear."

"o,...oh, gosh,... what??"

"Is that muuusic??"



It's gets a bit much being around Strauss-heads, and Welk-heads, and Skynyrd-heads. This Thread is making me want to kick someone old.

I'm starting to hate all old people. Please,...are there any cool ones out there? They've been around the longest,...why are they so daft?

I know, I know,...just rhetorical.

[bosniajenny]

Also at Der Rosenkavalier:

"I don't understand why that woman's in drag". Which started me on the road to finding out.....

At Parsifal (in a box, so could at least eat and drink in relative comfort and obscurity). Hand reaches over from next box and voice follows:

"God, would you pass a glass of that to me, I'm desperate".

At Evgeniy Onegin "But none of those dance tunes is RUSSIAN".

[not edward]

I think the best thing I ever overheard was this old lady (probably about 80) at an Edinburgh Festival concert. The Ligeti violin concerto was on the program and I overheard her saying to someone nearby "I'm not looking forward to this; I don't like modern music."

30 minutes later, I heard her say something like "I didn't know modern music could be like that! Is there a recording out there?" I hope I'm as openminded as her when I reach that age.