Inconsiderate audience members

[MDL]

I was in Manchester for my first ever visit to the Bridgewater Hall this weekend. Mark Elder was conducting the Hallé in Mahler's Symphony No.1. The orchestra were on good form and the acoustics were great. The only fly in the ointment was the inconsiderate tart who clumped out of the hall just as the quiet third movement was fading to silence. Had she waited for ten seconds, her footsteps would have been lost amid the whirlwind of sound that opens the fourth movement. Instead, the quiet pulsings of the timpani, cymbal and tam-tam were suddenly drowned out by the sounds of high heels on a wooden floor. The concert was being recorded, and at least one of the players rolled his eyes in dismay.

So whoever you are, lady, thanks a bunch. I hope the attendants didn't let you back in for the rest of the concert. Actually, I hope you were eaten by a pack of wolves.

[Mark]

Thank you. I needed a good laugh this afternoon (at her expense, not yours).

[Cato]

Such a center of the universe should become a center of the universe, i.e. crushed into infinitesimality by infinite gravity!

Especially for disrupting MAHLER!!!   

If it were Ferde Grofe, no problem!   

[Tsaraslondon]

Your story reminds me of a concert by the LSO at the Barbican, which included a performance of Mahler's 6th Symphony. The conductor had positioned the cowbells in the corridor outside the doors beside the concert platform at the left of the auditorium. As they started playing, a male member of the audience got up and went out of the door, creating something of a disturbance. I later heard (I worked in the LSO admin at that time) that the audience member had angrily got up to tell the orchestra members playing the cowbells to be quiet as there was a performance going on in the hall. I'm not sure if that was quite the effect the conductor had in mind, when he placed them there.

[Novi]

Your story reminds me of a concert by the LSO at the Barbican, which included a performance of Mahler's 6th Symphony. The conductor had positioned the cowbells in the corridor outside the doors beside the concert platform at the left of the auditorium. As they started playing, a male member of the audience got up and went out of the door, creating something of a disturbance. I later heard (I worked in the LSO admin at that time) that the audience member had angrily got up to tell the orchestra members playing the cowbells to be quiet as there was a performance going on in the hall. I'm not sure if that was quite the effect the conductor had in mind, when he placed them there.

LOL, that's funny .