The man who became the object of anger internationally about the case of Mahler interruptus in the New York Philharmonic this week told his side of the story of the New York Times Dan wakin.
As some people suspected all the time, was an alarm on the iPhone now famous, this has led the Orchestra's music director, Alan Gilbert, acclaimed to take, go down the outstanding performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony on Tuesday for the device in deep question has been silenced.
But the owner, "called the X Patron Philharmonic Orchestra," said ...
had turned off the phone before the concert and had no idea of alarm had been set - the phone was new to him, to replace a device given to him by his company. He also knew that the alarm sounds even if the phone was off - indeed, he did not know that "the phones are equipped with alarms."
Model X, a long-time subscriber Philharmonic in a front row seat (I wonder if he will ask to change its position today), discussed with apologies to Gilbert. In the Times article, the unidentified man said he "had not slept for two days" and feels "horrible" about the whole thing.
I do not know how many people are asking for the expulsion and even execution (I've heard some very average) will be met by all this. It highlights human frailty, of course, and that usually causes the sympathy of those of us known to be equally fatal. I am guilty, even jumping to conclusions, after going through so many performances marked by no rudeness hearing.
It seems that now we have to worry about "smart" phones that are so evil, deceives us into thinking that we have control, when all together, we can ignore our wishes. I'm happy still use a cell phone obsolete.
Perhaps the pre-concert announcements telling people to turn off all warnings hidden add on alarms. We may need to postpone all performances of a few minutes, while newly formed ushers roam the aisles to help customers understand the procedure, potentially dangerous operation of their hand-bound aircraft.
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