Non-Human Rites (ArtsWatch)

Non-Human Rites

Friday afternoon's Philadelphia Orchestra Verizon Hall concert was stopped briefly to let a larger sound pass by. Christoph Eschenbach was conducting The Rite of Spring when a blast of electronic sound was released into the hall. He paused. The sound ended after about 10 seconds. The concert went on.
The cause was Verizon's sound system, which is kept on all the time, a Kimmel spokesman said. The computerized system cut off, and that noise was the sound it makes when the system is rebooting.
You might remember that Eschenbach was rehearsing The Rite of Spring in Verizon once before when he got interrupted - by water, when the hall's deluge system let loose. He dubbed the incident "The Rite of the Sprinkler."

Posted by Peter Dobrin on September 30, 2007 8:32 AM | Permalink

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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

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