World’s costliest concert hall is farting hell

We publish unredacted an appeal by Andreas Schmidt, editor of a German music website:

klassik-begeistert.de politely asks all those responsible – from the senator to the artistic director – for music evenings without “burping and farting” in the most expensive concert hall in the world: in the Elbphilharmonie, which is financed solely by Hamburg’s taxpayers. Certainly the Hamburg taxpayers didn’t spend their good money on noise and embarrassment in the Great Hall. The solution is very simple: a clear address for uninformed concertgoers.

You only have one choice, dear Herr Lieben-Seutter: you decide in favor of culture and against the stupidity and dullness of the ignorant. Against a pseudo-democratic (anti-social) minority acceptance that spoils the evening for the vast majority, which generates most of the proceeds. But since when has the loud, belching minority dictated how the music plays to the culture-loving majority?

Illustration: from a recent demo at the Elbphilharmonie