Cell phone stops Mahler 9 at New York Philharmonic

[Opus106]

People, you're thinking too small! A laser (or a few of them) in the middle of the hall on the ceiling (with access to every seat). Cell phone rings - zap! Alarm clock - zap! Coughing - zap! 

Unless the 'zapping' is silent, someone would have to zap the laser as well. In anycase, it would make one hell of a sound-and-light show.

[mc ukrneal]

Unless the 'zapping' is silent, someone would have to zap the laser as well. In anycase, it would make one hell of a sound-and-light show.

Silent - yes. And no smoke.

[North Star]

Unless the 'zapping' is silent, someone would have to zap the laser as well. In anycase, it would make one hell of a sound-and-light show.

Someone's been watching too much Star Wars 

[Opus106]

Someone's been watching too much Star Wars 

Truth to be told, I haven't watched even a single film from that franchise.

[TheGSMoeller]

Just read that the man with the cellphone was a yearly concert subscriber for many years with the NYP, and actually talked to Gilbert over the phone to apologize.

[Karl Henning]

Truth to be told, I haven't watched even a single film from that franchise.

I could hug you!

[Karl Henning]

Just read that the man with the cellphone was a yearly concert subscriber for many years with the NYP, and actually talked to Gilbert over the phone to apologize.

Well, a good thing that Daniel wasn't there to hammer him! : )

[Ataraxia]

Concerto for ringtone and orchestra.

[madaboutmahler]

Just read that the man with the cellphone was a yearly concert subscriber for many years with the NYP, and actually talked to Gilbert over the phone to apologize.

Well, a good thing that Daniel wasn't there to hammer him! : )

Yes....
He should have known better! Must have been very embarrassing for him as well...

[TheGSMoeller]

Must have been very embarrassing for him as well...

I'm sure it was, supposedly the audience wasn't has kind as Gilbert, some harsh things were yelled at cellphone-man from the crowd

[madaboutmahler]

I'm sure it was, supposedly the audience wasn't has kind as Gilbert, some harsh things were yelled at cellphone-man from the crowd

I can imagine....
I wonder what I would have done if I were there!

[TheGSMoeller]

I can imagine....
I wonder what I would have done if I were there!

I'm guessing, the hammer? 

[madaboutmahler]

I'm guessing, the hammer? 

Probably!

[eyeresist]

The Barbican Centre in London has that.  There's no signal anywhere inside.  I doubt it's by design, as it was constructed in the 1970s.  More likely it's the reinforcing in all the concrete acting as a giant Faraday cage.  Place is built like a nuclear bunker.

Great, so you can hear the terrible acoustics without interruption

Just read that the man with the cellphone was a yearly concert subscriber for many years with the NYP, and actually talked to Gilbert over the phone to apologize.

He called Gilbert on THE SAME PHONE with which he committed his atrocity in the first place! I believe this is called irony.

[TheGSMoeller]

He called Gilbert on THE SAME PHONE with which he committed his atrocity in the first place! I believe this is called irony.

He must have scheduled SIRI to call and apologize.

[The new erato]

Here's a good take on this incident:

http://www.stereophile.com/content/occupy-avery-fisher-hall

[eyeresist]

Lincoln Center management contacted Patron X, whom they identified by his seat number, ostensibly to request that he power down his iPhone during future concerts. In the course of the call, X requested an opportunity to speak with Alan Gilbert directly. That request was granted.

Don't be alarmed by that apparent exercise of privilege: It turns out that Lincoln Center management offers the same opportunity anyone, regardless of income or social status who disrupts a performance in Avery Fisher Hall.

Actually, I made that up. The opposite is true: If you or I did such a thing, the best we could hope for would be an interview with Lincoln Center Security.

There are few flavours as piquant as righteous indignation (I'm enjoying some right now ).

[Scion7]

Remember the beating that "teens" Di Nero and Woods received in Once Upon a Time in America?   

[lisa needs braces]

Some audience members were heard to remark after the concert that the ringing mobile phone bit was the most musically interesting sequence of the symphony.

[madaboutmahler]

Some audience members were heard to remark after the concert that the ringing mobile phone bit was the most musically interesting sequence of the symphony.

Poor them for not being able to understand some of the (IMHO) most powerfully, heavenly beautiful music ever! What were they doing there in the first place then? They don't deserve the privelage of seeing Mahler live if they are going to make such stupid remarks afterwards. Awful.

Edit: Sorry, I got a little angry there....