It was the concert heard around New York City. Or rather, not heard.
Last week, the New York Philharmonic stopped in the middle of a concert because a cell phone went off during the performance. The phone ringing wasn’t the only story, but the audience reaction: the fellow concertgoers began to heckle the cell-phone-ringer-attendee. It was a big enough deal that even the New York Times had a story on it.
Talk about a bad day for everyone involved.
But this incident got me thinking about concert etiquette, and not just silencing cell phones or avoiding unwrapping cough drops in the middle of Beethoven, but some larger issues as well.
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Concert Protocol
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