The New York Times sent James Oestreich to review a free Mozart Concert at Avery Fisher Hall a few weeks ago. How was the concert? Don't ask James Oestreich! He spent the bulk of his review complaining about the presence that some selfish jerk with an oxygen tank.
James Oestreich's review:
I hesitate to delve further into details of the performances, because I was thoroughly distracted throughout.
The man seated directly behind me was connected to a portable medical device, presumably an oxygen cart to aid his breathing, that emitted a steady ticking. Hard to describe, it was really more a faint, dull metallic clank in a relentless rhythm that seemed somehow resistant to all the many other rhythms emanating from the stage.
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Oestreich goes on to spend the rest of the review musing on all the various ways that medical devices can ruin the tranquil quiet necessary to enjoy classical music.
Anyhow the president of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Foundation sent a letter of complaint to the NYT, and the paper, to its credit, published a brief interview with him today. The takeaway is "James Oestreich is kind of an _ _ _ _ _ _ _," in case you don't feel like reading the whole thing.
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