Yannick lashes Philly audience for ringing phones
Orchestras‘Can we live without the phone for just one damn hour?’ the conductor demanded last night, after a second cellphone interruption in Bruckner’s 9th symphony.
It’s not often that Mr Cool loses it.
Later, in a message to Peter Dobrin of the Inqiuirer, he claimed ‘it was cellphone [ring] number four’ that provoked his eruption. ‘Philosophically, I think what’s happening is, we do have a new audience coming in and we appreciate that they are coming in. And we’re trying to welcome them to understand the power of being together in a moment of silence and in a moment of complete focus on the music.’
Always look on the bright side.
In hindsight.
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