Music Critic Gets Fed Up, Snatches Cell Phone From Hand Of Oblivious Audience Member

David Patrick Stearns: “And just because the [Vienna] public is among the most cultured on the planet doesn’t mean the cellphones are under control. Despite a preconcert warning announcement, one woman pulled out her phone just as Lisa Batiashvili had begun the quiet, slow-burning opening movement of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Only eight rows from the stage, the phone kept beeping and burbling, its owner entranced by it and oblivious to those nearby shooting her daggers. So the problem was addressed American-style …”