In Reply to: Audience responce posted by ahendler on October 2, 2016 at 12:25:01:
...when the only nonmusical sounds you heard during the music in a concert hall were turned program pages, coughing, the occasional dropped program or sneeze, and (at the opera) snoring by people who went so their picture would be in the society pages (as an usher, I was asked to gently awaken the snorers).
Two weeks ago, I attended a concert at Severance Hall by the Cleveland Institute of Music orchestra (great concert!). Somebody in the balcony had a cellphone that rang like an old dial phone. LOUDLY, three or four rings. This happened three times during the quiet parts of Scheherezade.
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- I remember the pre-cellphone days... - pbarach 16:02:27 10/05/16 (0)