I have only one word to say to the Quebec conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin: “Bravo! »
On Saturday, during a Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra concert, after two cell phones rang and he was twice forced to interrupt his music, he addressed the public: “Can we live for a & ?%$#$%?& without a phone ? Hour ? »
To cheer ! To cheer ! To cheer ! That’s enough, you cell phone junkies! We’ve had enough of phone addicts who can’t wean themselves off their crutches! Break it up, pulp addicts!
YANNICK SUPERHERO
If I admire Yannick Nézet-Séguin so much, it is because he knew how to stand up firmly and with conviction to the rude, the irreverent and the selfish.
Music is an oasis of peace, a bubble of beauty in our busy lives, an oasis of calm in a hyperactive everyday life. When the hyper-connected are unable to recover for an hour, time is serious. Sixty minutes of relief from your mental burden, is that too much to ask?
One goes to a concert precisely to forget life beyond the walls of the concert hall!
On Saturday, Nézet-Séguin conducted the orchestra with Anton Bruckner. Those who were in space were no longer in the United States in 2023, but in Austria in 1887.
But when a cell phone rings next to you, your time travel ends quite abruptly, thank you.
- Listen to Sophie Durocher’s interview with Serce Denoncourt, director and actor QUB radio :
I recently attended Cirque du Soleil’s excellent show ECHO. A glorious bubble of poetry, of beauty, in the middle of a busy week.
Before the performance, we are strongly advised that photography is permitted, but flashing is prohibited to protect the acrobats.
Even a six-year-old can understand that risking your life on a trapeze or throwing yourself from one end of a tent to the other of a camera is not the time to be blinded, distracted, and disoriented by the flash.
Well, what had to happen, happened: it hadn’t been five minutes since the show started and… bingo! A Tata in front of me took a picture with his flash.
The settler was willing to risk an acrobat falling off the top of a human pyramid just so he could have his little photo to show friends as he exited the blue and yellow marquee. No, but do you have to be selfish?
We were warned before the show to turn down the brightness on our phones if we were going to film. You guessed it: cellphone Ostrogoths started broadcasting “Facebook Live” with their cracked screen at maximum brightness. Miserable if your friends don’t have enough money to buy tickets to the circus, you don’t have to offer them a simulcast!
- Listen to the Durocher-Dutrizac meeting with Sophie Durocher on the microphone by Benoit Dutrizac QUB radio :
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
“The mobile phone is the heroine of the 21st century,” says Spanish psychologist Marc Masip, who runs therapies for technology addicts in rehabilitation centers.
Well, drug addicts beware! Let them leave their drugs in the car when they go to the concert. Let them turn off their crutches when they go to the circus.
When a personality as imposing as Yannick Nézet-Séguin puts you in your place, it’s music to my ears.
