Cell fish.As the lights dimmed for a recent concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , a loud cell phone ring could be heard. All around the hall, people could be seen reaching into their pockets and purses, muttering mut·ter v. mut·tered, mut·ter·ing, mut·ters v.intr. 1. To speak indistinctly in low tones. 2. To complain or grumble morosely. v.tr. "Is that my phone? I thought I turned it off." It turns out the sound was coming from the venue itself, part of an ingenious in·gen·ious adj. 1. Marked by inventive skill and imagination. 2. Having or arising from an inventive or cunning mind; clever: an ingenious scheme. See Synonyms at clever. 3. warning system. After the third ring, a soft voice came over the loudspeakers reminding people to turn off their cell phones: "This is one instrument no one wants to hear at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Please turn off all cell phones, pagers and watch alarms. Thank you, and enjoy the living music." Though a rarity here, Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. spokeswoman Elizabeth Hinckley said using cell phone rings in warnings has become common in European concert halls. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion