{"id":1849,"date":"2012-02-24T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2012-02-24T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:11:29","slug":"a-toronto-symphony-fan-suggests-new-seating-plan-for-pesky-roy-thomson-hall-patrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/02\/24\/a-toronto-symphony-fan-suggests-new-seating-plan-for-pesky-roy-thomson-hall-patrons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toronto Symphony fan suggests new seating plan for pesky Roy Thomson Hall patrons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a novel way to deal with pesky audience noise.<\/p>\n

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Rob Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cheeky Toronto visual artist Rob Elliott<\/a>, whose gimlet-eyed view of the world I appreciate, happens to be a fan of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

He and his wife loved last week’s spectacular programme led by conductor John Storgaards, but were less than impressed with the audience (which, on the night I was there, included a cell phone noise that ruined the maestro’s downbeat on the opening piece).<\/p>\n

Or, as Elliott puts it in his sketchbook\/blog, You Windy Rathole<\/a>, “Every time I attend the symphony, I fear my brain is going to explode before the concert is over.”<\/p>\n

So he has come up with an alternate seating plan to deal with the problem (click on the illustration if you want to make it bigger):<\/p>\n

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Rob Elliott illustration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a novel way to deal with pesky audience noise. Cheeky Toronto visual artist Rob Elliott, whose gimlet-eyed view of the world I appreciate, happens to be a fan of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He and his wife loved last week’s spectacular programme led by conductor John Storgaards, but were less than impressed with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76,13,19,31,36,37,42,60,63,69],"tags":[1605,2419,2854,2881,2959,3036,3360,3513],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/roy_thomson_hall_tso_seating_plan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-tP","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}