being an audience - a lost art...

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from a review of a Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 performance in Philadelphia...

LJ Knows Good Music -:

DEAR ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE --

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TUBERCULOUS COUGHS, YOUR RINGING CELLULAR DEVICES, AND YOUR LOUD BREATHING.

thank you for coughing during the pppppp. thank you for clapping after the third movement. thank you for your cell phone going off during the final (quiet!!) moments of the symphony. thank you for not only ruining my enjoyment, but also for irrevocably blemishing the live recording.

just, thank you.