[Intolerant in NJ]

... the Seattle Opera a couple of years ago and the whole dang crowd started singing "Kill the Wabbit,...I attended the Seattle Symphony 'way back in the sixties when they played Walton's Belshazzar's Feast for the first (and probably last) time - a third of the audience walked out - a tough crowd, those Seattlites......

[Billthedrill]

FWIW the symphony has really improved (I think) under Gerard Schwartz, whatever the London Symphony Orchestra may think of him. Benaroya Hall turned out to be an incredible venue. Nobody walks out these days...