事件は，１月11日，火曜日の夜に起こったそうです．
Allan Gilbert の指揮でNew York Philharmonic がLincoln Center でマーラーの傑作，交響曲第９番を演奏していて，第４楽章で静かで消え入るような終わりにさしかかったところで，突然，最前列の客席からiPhoneの電話音がホール中に響き渡ったそうです．
指揮者，演奏者，聴衆ともショックと不快感でいっぱいになったようですが，２分以上鳴り続けたため，指揮者はオーケストラの演奏を止めて待ったといいます．
As the ringing (one connoisseur said it was the iPhone’s marimba signal) vied with the Adagio climax of bittersweet quietude, Mr. Gilbert had had enough. He stopped the orchestra and turned, one witness said, and sternly asked the offender: “Are you finished?”
そして，Gilbert は振り向いて，当の本人に， “Are you finished?”と厳しい声で呼びかけたということです．
それと共に，聴衆からも，“Kick him out!” came a shout from one music lover. “A thousand dollar fine!” demanded another. といった厳しい叫び声が上がったといいます．
Mr. Gilbert, a native New Yorker certainly used to the world’s run of nuisance, was masterful by all accounts in having the man snuff the phone. “We’ll wait,” he said, asking warily in behalf of everyone: “Is it going to go off again?”
と Gilbert が「少し待つけれども，また鳴ることがありますか？」と聴いたそうです．それに対して，聴衆から満場の拍手が沸きあがったそうです．
he took up the Adagio once more, marimba-free. Just before the Ninth resumed, people in the audience bustled to check their own cellphones.
Gilbert は The Adagio をやり直したようですが，その前に，慌てて時運のセルフォンを確認する人が目立ったといいます．
東京では，開演前のアナウンスを五月蠅いと思う人も多いでしょうが，それもやむを得ないと思うべきなのでしょう．
かつて，サントリーホールでゲルギエフが指揮中に，聴衆から補聴器のハウリングが五月蠅いとクレームがあって，楽章間の小休止が意外に長引いたことがありましたが，それは最近は補聴器の側でハウリング・フリーを出しているようですから，気にされる方は，お試し下さい．
そういえば，アバドが来日したとき，演奏中に携帯電話が鳴って，アバドから終演後にクレームがあって，それから開演前のアナウンスが始まったと記憶しています．
Editorial
Can You Hear Him Now?
Published: January 12, 2012
Little could Mahler, a century gone from the modern world, have anticipated the horrific intrusion of an incessant cellphone ring near the end of his ethereal 90-minute masterpiece, the Ninth. The instrument rang untended across excruciating minutes Tuesday night at Lincoln Center from the pocket of a front-row listener, sending the audience, the New York Philharmonic players and the conductor Alan Gilbert into shock and dismay.
As the ringing (one connoisseur said it was the iPhone’s marimba signal) vied with the Adagio climax of bittersweet quietude, Mr. Gilbert had had enough. He stopped the orchestra and turned, one witness said, and sternly asked the offender: “Are you finished?” The rage in the hall was general, according to bloggers who were there. “Kick him out!” came a shout from one music lover. “A thousand dollar fine!” demanded another.
Mr. Gilbert, a native New Yorker certainly used to the world’s run of nuisance, was masterful by all accounts in having the man snuff the phone. “We’ll wait,” he said, asking warily in behalf of everyone: “Is it going to go off again?”
The conductor was rewarded with rousing applause even before he took up the Adagio once more, marimba-free. Just before the Ninth resumed, people in the audience bustled to check their own cellphones.
