Just minutes before the New York Philharmonic came to the final movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 last Tuesday night, iPhone's unmistakable "Marimba" ringtone rang out at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
Conductor Alan Gilbert quickly halted the performance when the offending ringtone interlude just kept on going through the end of the score. The iPhone owner finally managed to silence his device after a few minutes that felt more like weeks according to a post in The New York Times. Once the handset was silenced, the audience cheered and the concert resumed.
The man who owned the offending iPhone told The New York Times that he did not sleep for two nights after the widely publicized concert fiasco.
“You can imagine how devastating it is to know you had a hand in that,” said the man, who described himself as a business executive between 60 and 70 who runs two companies. “It’s horrible, horrible.” - Source NYT
It was on the car ride home that the man's wife checked the settings on his iPhone only to discover that the alarm had been set. You know, the alarm that's part of that native Clock App included with every iPhone since it first launched in 2007.
“I didn’t even know phones came with alarms,” the man said. Are you kidding me? What planet is this guy from?
Before conductor Alan Gilbert continued on with the concert, he apologized to the entire audience and explained that while it's normally better to just ignore such disturbances, he said this was "so egregious that I could not allow it."
You see—this is why we can't have nice things like the iPhone.
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