Ending of Mahler 9 with iPhone Marimba Sound

Just an example of how it could've went down..... tribute to Alan Gilbert, Mahler, and the composer of the iPhone marimba ringtone.

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• Mahler
• iPhone
• marimba
• alan
• gilbert
• cell
• phone
• leonard
• bernstein
• interruption

[lilibetp]

I think Gilbert was very patient under the circumstances. I probably would have jumped into the audience, stabbed the man with my baton, then thrown the phone onto the floor and jumped up and down on it until in was in about a thousand pieces.

[herrbrahms]

@lilibetp Lenny would have stopped the music, stood at the podium seething, then reached inside his jacket and lit a Kent to calm himself. After a few drags, he would have hopped down to the front row and extinguished his cigarette on the offender's eyeball.

[jamesmb444]

Charles Ives: "Frankly, I don't see the problem here."

[TMSVioloncellist]

Kill that phoneeee.

[checkeredpastmusic]

@ideologger OH THAT'S WHAT A TELEPHONE IS FOR! Thanks for the clarification that I already had stated in my last sentence.

PS. Having played in a symphonic bands/symphony orchestras/brass choirs/chamber orchestras etc... there is no shortage of people that don't comprehend concert etiquette and will continue to leave their phones on, clap at the end of the first movement, bring a child with them, get a extreme case of whopping cough the list can go on and on, it's just another day @ the office

[ideologger]

@checkeredpastmusic Uhh... If there was an emergency, you wouldn't be at the concert. You see, a telephone is used to alert one to an emergency- that's the reason someone would be calling if a "world crushing event" had developed. Regardless, there's no reason to leave one's ringer on or be playing with your phone at the orchestra, the movies, etc.

[checkeredpastmusic]

They should just really invest in that paint that blocks cell reception... if you paid X amount of dollars to enjoy an evening of music you should have as little distraction as possible. It's highly doubtful that some world crushing event will happen in that time AND IF there is such a crisis you shouldn't be at the concert in the first place.

[EmpEli]

Stuff happens. Who knows the reason why it went off. It was probably an elderly person based on the statistics of who listens to an orchestra live. What happened if the conductor cut the entire ensemble off if an old person was having a coughing fit? People need to calm down and stop being so damned angry at somebody they don't know or understand.

[cornsyrupsolids]

Philharmonic concertgoers need to start a class action lawsuit against the gay composer of that apple ringtone.



[SerendipitySAHM]

Haha! I really hope the old man w/ the phone just couldn't hear it. Otherwise, how pathetic!

[luigibattista10]

Fake and lesbian

[proudaltome]

Whoever gave the man the iPhone was the one at fault. He/she should have taken the time to make sure Mr. X was familiar with the device before unleashing him on the public. I couldn't help thinking of that guy who leaned over and caught the baseball a few years ago--but he was responsible for his actions!

[KnocksX]

The guy apologized to the conductor and felt terribly. He was given a new phone by his company and didn't know there was an alarm set up on it. He did silence the ringtone before the concern, but the alarm went off.

[pharaway]

Fake.

[darktigerx]

i wouldve shot that guy that ring tone with a arrow to the knee

[anuteamsterium]

I witnessed the same thing happen- Mahler's 9th, Mehta and the LA Phil. The final notes had just died out when some twit's phone went off. Could have been worse.

[gaijinlaw]

@keoism Is that you Captain Obvious? The uploader never claimed this was Tuesday's performance. It's a mock up to show how it might have sounded.

Also, that's Leonard Bernstein in this video. Safe to say he wasn't conducting this past week.

[mario54671]

@Onslaughttitude They would've kept playing, but it was the conductor who stopped them after the ringtone kept going for 7 minutes. Same thing happened to me when I attended a concert with Salonen conducting and someone's iPhone piano ringtone went off. However, since they weren't in the front row, and because it was only a few seconds, he didn't stop. BUT, this kind of interruption, especially when it's about to go into a quiet ending, he had to just stop because it ruined the symphony.

[torsorosso]

@keoism Totally fake! I think so too.

[keoism]

Isn't that video, like, obviously fake? It looks like it's been recorded ~20 years ago and there's noticeable difference in sound quality between orchestra and the ringtone.

[abadonna]

the Marimba Mahler. Past and Present merging into the future. I wonder what Marshall McLuhan would've thought of it all.

[Sleyah]

@Aroddo This link doesn't work either. And now I really want to see this video. :)

[sequoia2001]

Please - just turn dat mut-chat chaka chaka chunky-chant off!

[Aroddo]

@Aroddo

i meant this: "Musician Cell Phone "

youtube.com/watch?v=OewAcjYyXV­o

strange, the original link doesn't lead anywhere. even though it looks identical.