Bob Collins
Minnesota classical music fans, you cough too much.
Just ask Hilary Hahn, the one-time child prodigy who’d had it with your hacks at a concert at the Ordway last week.
There was some pretty graphic coughing during the concert — in the performing arts, cold season is year-round for some unfortunate souls.
— HilaryHahnViolinCase (@violincase) April 16, 2015
So she offered some advice on being a better patron of the arts.
A trick for silently accessing cough drops: unwrap a few before the concert and keep them in a small plastic flip-top pillbox till needed.
— HilaryHahnViolinCase (@violincase) April 16, 2015
WQXR, writing about the incident, says a study in 2012 showed that people tend to cough more during modern works and slow movements.
