(Montreal) The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra is selling tote bags and t-shirts in its store that reflect Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s exasperated outing against cellphones in the concert hall.
The new bags and t-shirts carry the inscription (in English) “Can we live without a cell phone for a damn hour?” “, a summary of what the chef had dropped, exasperated, by interrupting a concert on May 6. The orchestra’s store even sells… cell phone cases featuring the comment that has become famous in Philadelphia.
Conductor Nézet-Séguin then interrupted the orchestra in the middle of the third movement of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, after a second phone ring in the room, according to the daily. The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Six days later, the conductor again interrupted the orchestra, which had just started the fantastic symphony of Berlioz, according to the Philadelphia daily. That night, he didn’t use the adjective ” Damn but he politely asked all viewers to turn off their phones “now”. “The world can wait,” he added, also inviting spectators to visit the orchestra’s shop, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Already, on May 8, after the angry exit of the chef, the specialized magazine Van wrote on Twitter that if the Philadelphia Orchestra doesn’t use the phrase on memorabilia, it will.
” Challenge accepted. On sale soon,” the orchestra’s management later replied, posting a photo of a cell phone case with the conductor’s quote.