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Stick Time: What Part of “NO CELLPHONES” Don’t You Understand?

October 28, 2013 by Scott Dorsey Leave a Comment


Though the choral season is a couple months along now, we are closing in on that time of year when it seems we are all rushing from concert to concert.   Thus it seems a good idea to be reminded of the need to insist that those in our audience turn off their cellphones.
 
At the risk of reinforcing a co-worker's opinion that one is a dinosaur, there are certain events where ubiquitous techno-gadgetry should be considered an unwelcome guest. Foremost among those environments is a live concert.  For those who disagree, we respectfully submit the following video of a lovely Haydn concerto that is utterly destroyed by a cell phone.
 
 
 

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  1. Allen H Simon says

    October 29, 2013 at 10:37 am

    The real question is, how do you enforce it? Pretty much every concert has an announcement telling people to turn off their phones, so that isn’t enough. People tune it out, just like the oxygen-mask announcement on airplanes. I went to an ACDA division convention a few years ago in which every single performance was interrupted by a phone call, even though they all started with a turn-off-your-phone announcement.
     
    Nobody wants to be the person whose phone goes off; I’m sure the audience member in the above video was mortified. But somehow people think theirs phones are off (or silenced) when they’re not. What would change that?
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