Orchestra silenced for phone

Conductor Alan Gilbert stopped the New York Philharmonic during the final movement of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony until a ringing phone was silenced.

The sound of phones ringing, and worse still people  answering them and conversing,  in inappropriate places at inappropriate times is not uncommon.

Maybe if more of us were like the conductor people might remember mobile etiquette and turn their phones off or at least mute them more often.

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