...Is the question a friend and I have been asking ourselves this last hour. Why? Well, we've just left the final concert of this years Edinburgh Festival at the interval. 2 reasons. One being that the Bamberg Symphony were not a patch on their last Festival appearance. (Very mediocre strings!) and, second reason, someone thought it would be a great idea to bring an infant to a concert which employs 6 percussionists, often working at full pelt. Each silence being followed by a 'WAAAAA...'!
For the second work, our family decided that in order to minimise the racket they should sit further back in the Usher Hall! When that didn't work, the mother clumped down the stairs to the nearest exit. If you have any doubt how distracting it was simply listen to the BBC Recording of the event on September 19th!
I'm curious as to why the Usher Hall staff allowed such a young child in in the first place.
Oh dear...
For the second work, our family decided that in order to minimise the racket they should sit further back in the Usher Hall! When that didn't work, the mother clumped down the stairs to the nearest exit. If you have any doubt how distracting it was simply listen to the BBC Recording of the event on September 19th!
I'm curious as to why the Usher Hall staff allowed such a young child in in the first place.
Oh dear...
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