Cell phone interrupts Mahler’s 9th Symphony, Conductor FLIPS OUT.

Since I know classical music is boring, let me sum up.

1. Asshole’s phone rings during the dénouement of a very dramatic symphony.
2. Conductor Alan Gilbert notices.
3. Cell phone does not stop.
4. Alan Gilbert stops the music (which almost never happens.  I have seen people carried out of operas on stretchers while the show was still going on uninterrupted).
5. Alan Gilbert finds out whose phone it is and refuses to continue until said gentleman confirms that he has, in fact, turned the phone all the way off.
6. Audience cheers.

Symphonies are the BEST, you guys.

(via moltovivace)