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Fed up with people making noise at classical shows

Last night I heard Vladimir Feltsman perform Chopin's Ballades at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. My excitement was building as my favorite part of the first Ballade approached. Immediately before the key was struck, someone sneezed. It was at that moment that I asked myself, "What the hell am I doing here? I have this at home, recorded by three different pianists." Throughout the performance were the sounds of coughing, sneezing moving in one's seat, dropping of programs, and talking.

I know this is the chance you take when attending live classical concerts and I LOVE hearing live music, but frankly I'm sick of it. I'm sick of paying money for traveling and the ticket itself just to be annoyed for two hours. Last Tuesday night a ringing cell phone disrupted a performance by the New York Philharmonic to the point where the conductor actually stopped the orchestra half way through Mahler's Ninth and addressed the moron who wouldn't shut it off.

Once, DURING A PERFORMANCE, someone got out of their seat, walked up to the stage and began "conducting the orchestra" with an imaginary baton.

As I said, I love attending live music, but when things like this happen, I'm ready to just stay home and save myself the aggravation.

Sorry, just had to vent.
devilboy
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schubert
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Learsfool, I am aware mid-hall back is best in most halls, in the Ordway Hall
listening to the SPCO you can hear the ensemble in the first row .Only other hall like it I have heard in the hundreds I have heard is the Sibelius Hall in Lathi, Finland
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dchang1981
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I get a hacking cough or constant blowing of your nose, but moving in your seat is unacceptable to you?  no wonder people hate on "audiophiles"
devilboy OP
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Last night I heard Denes Varjon perform Chopin, Schumann and Haydn at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.  Including with the coughing and other noises, a cell phone rang durring Chopin's Nocturne in B flat major.  
Last week at a performance of Brahms' violin concerto, I heard a cell phone ring durring the violin solo. The jerk was sitting in the front row 10 feet from the violinist.

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tostadosunidos
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I heard a story the other day about Gustav Mahler attending the premiere of Schoenberg's first string quartet.  Some people hissed the new music and when Mahler admonished one of the hissers he was told, "it's okay, I also hiss your symphonies!"
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