lang lang meets cough cough

[alocispepraluger102]

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...ough-cough.aspx

[RDK]

I thought this was a story of two pandas finally mating...

[Man with the Golden Arm]

... and here I figured one of em had a hernia.

[tonym]

Some people just don't give a damn! There's usually an outburst at the end of movements which you expect but just put up with.

I have a recording of Du Pre from a Swedish Venue in December with the great Celibidache and I'm sure the audience is packed with consumptives.

I do think that a great majority of people just go to classical music concerts to be seen to be there.

At the Halle a few years back I watched a guy nod off only to come round at the end of the piece, jump up and start shouting 'encore, encore'. What a twat.

During a blistering performance of Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto at the begining of the long cadenza, some bloke starts unwrapping boiled sweets. Luckily I wasn't sat next to him.

[Niko]

once at the cologne opera house we heard some guy apparently singing along with the music... turned out a few days later it was a friend's friend's dad who was having a heart attack

[andybleaden]

I liked the "scent free environment" plan

Looks like ol' trumpet trousers here will get barred in the future

parp

Edited October 1, 2008 by andybleaden

[hepcat1950]

Keith Jarrett would have left the stage after ten minutes latest.