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‘Can we please go without our devices’ conductor pleads as cellphone interrupts Philly orchestra
It happened again — in Bruckner, during the slow movement, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium. Saturday night in Marian Anderson Hall, Nézet-Séguin was conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in the “Adagio” of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 when the performance was interrupted by the repeated ring of a cell phone.
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