BRAWL BREAKS OUT AT MAHLER CONCERT

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was performing in Malmö, Sweden last week. The concert ended in a brawl. It began, as they often do, during the adagietto sequence of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.5. A woman was opening her pack of gum, and the sound of crinkling paper bounced off the walls during the fourth movement. A young man had enough of the noise and slapped the treat away from her. For the remaining 70 minutes of the show, the woman reportedly sat in silence. But when the applause broke out at the end of the concert, the woman turned towards the man and slapped him in the face. That’s when all hell broke loose – the man fought back, and a companion of the woman also jumped in, throwing a few punches of his own. The battle was brought to an end when other audience members managed to separate the participants.
* “That’s no way to conduct yourself,” said the conductor.
* The Mahler Brawler!
* Time for that woman to switch back to cigarettes.
* If you can hear someone opening a pack of gum over the sound of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, they need to play louder.
* How many fart sounds bounced off the walls?