iPhone stops New York Mahler 9

[Guest]

Oh dear


Edit: this is the correct link:

http://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2012/01/mahler-interrupted.html

[Bryn]

[QUOTE=Mahlerei;120459]Oh dear

[link posted in error by Mahlerei now removed at his request]

Eh? That link simply invites me to log on to my Gmail account.

[Stunsworth]

Eh? That link simply invites me to log on to my Gmail account.

No problem here.

Reading the article the phone starting ringing - marimba ring tone - just before the final page of the symphony. Conductor was rather annoyed.

[Bryn]

Thanks for that, Mahlerei. What incredibly bad timing. At least it was not one of the band whose iPhone misbehaved.

[Bryn]

No problem here.

Reading the article the phone starting ringing - marimba ring tone - just before the final page of the symphony. Conductor was rather annoyed.

Check the timing of your post with that of my message and Mahlerei's edit. You might try the original link as quoted in my reply to Mahlerei, too.

[Mahlerei]

Sorry for the c*ck-up. Yes, very bad timing.

[Cavaradossi]

Further info from our dear Norman.

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/01/identified-the-man-whose-phone-went-off-during-mahlers-ninth.html

[french frank]

Further info from our dear Norman.

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddi...ers-ninth.html

Interesting point that it was (selon notre Norman) an elderly 'I don't know what it's all about' concertgoer.

What particularly interests me (as someone who only uses a mobile to contact younger members of the family by texting because they never check their emails) is how swiftly human beings have become addicted (probably in a serious, clinical sense) to their phones. Slaves even. You don't have to take it with you everywhere you go just in case you need it. Yes, yes, I know you've discovered uses that you never dreamed of . If you don't understand the technology enough to know you have a preset alarm, just get a cheap, simple phone, not a smartphone (it's smarter than you - that's your problem). And don't take it out with you unless you think YOU will need it. Fer god's sake don't try and keep up with the smarty set ... ppphhhhh!!!!

And don't have it turned on when you're out to lunch with me ..........

[Serial_Apologist]

And don't have it turned on when you're out to lunch with me ..........

We would make a good twosome, FF: I have no moble phone and am always out to lunch!

[Bryn]

Hmm, a salutary lesson. As the delightful Ms. Bott tends to remind us at the start of broadcast concerts, it is not enough to merely silence one's mobile telephone. It must be completely switched off. Best bet is to temporarily remove the battery.

[french frank]

Best bet is to temporarily remove the battery.

Or throw it on the floor and stamp on it

[amateur51]

Or throw it on the floor and stamp on it

No it's Mahler's 6th that has the hammer blows, french frank

[Nick Armstrong]

... how swiftly human beings have become addicted (probably in a serious, clinical sense) to their phones. Slaves even.

A not irrelevant article here: http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16147572

And don't take it out with you unless you think YOU will need it.

At the same time, you don't always know in advance whether or not you will need in, as it can be invaluable in the event of an unforeseen emergency.

Even though I need mine all the time for business reasons, it's rarely if ever on anything other than silent / vibrate mode.

The only exception recently was almost a horror which might have impacted upon many here. I was invited to a box for the Philharmonia Prom conducted by Salonen last summer. Work delayed me and as I pedalled to the hall, I needed to hear and take a call which duly happened (I stopped to take the call - for the cycling safety vigilantes... ). But as I was late, I hastened on after and made it to the RAH with seconds to spare (orchestra on platform, Salonen not yet on, when I arrived). During the brisk Introduction of the 'Age of Gold' Suite I suddenly realised that I hadn't reset the phone and that if it went off, the world would hear my Bach C major Toccata BWV564 ring tone. The quiet slow second movement was torture. I couldn't get from the corner of the box to where my jacket was, without causing disturbance.

When the Shostakovich finished and I could get to the phone, I muted it and collapsed with a glass of something...

Afterwards, I noticed that a call had come in....about 5 minutes after I had silenced it

[doversoul1]

Caliban
my Bach C major Toccata BWV564 ring tone.

Oh Caliban! How could you?

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh Caliban! How could you?

Makes a well cool ringtone innit