Mahler, Interrupted
I apologize. Usually, when there’s a disturbance like this, it is best to ignore it, because addressing it is sometimes worse than the disturbance itself. But this was so egregious that I could not allow it.
— New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert to the audience at Tuesday night’s Lincoln Center performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, after he had put down his baton and stopped the orchestra because of an iPhone ringing front row center »