{"id":6390,"date":"2013-11-02T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:44:48","slug":"samsung-smashes-haydn-in-gothenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/samsung-smashes-haydn-in-gothenburg-6390\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Smashes Haydn in Gothenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At a concert in Gothenburg Concert Hall October 23, 2013, pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias stopped playing in the middle of Haydn’s D major Piano Concerto<\/a>, interrupted by an audience member’s cell phone ringing for the second time the same concert. At the end of a phrase in the first movement, Zacharias abruptly stops, looks back and says, “Don’t answer. Let it ring.” After some moments of awkward silence, he resumes the performance.<\/p>\n

M\u00e5ns P\u00e4r Fogelberg of GSOPlay<\/a>, which films Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra\u00b4s concerts, said the offender hasn’t yet come forward. “As far as we know, no one stepped up afterwards and claimed the ownership of either of the two phones that went off during the concert,” says Fogelberg.<\/p>\n

In an after-interview Christian Zacharias commented:
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\n\u201cSometimes it\u00b4s just too much\u2026 we prepare all this and the least we can do to honor it is listening and being there in silence\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The incident was filmed and immediately produced for a three-minute video that was widely disseminated on YouTube counting more than 50,000 views as of the following Friday morning:<\/p>\n