The concert was fantastic, but the audience members nearest us (Section 8, Row H, Mezzanine) were something else.
Right at the start of the Debussy, an usher tried to seat two women in our row (we would have had to stand to let them in). I motioned to them “no” and they stopped, but not before their noise and movements wiped out the opening flute solo. Later one of the women called me ‘unkind’–I guess it didn’t occur to her that she was the one being highly inconsiderate.

A young man behind me insisted on kicking the back of my seat off and on throughout the whole concert. When I pointed this out to him at the conclusion, he was dumbfounded.

Finally, during the second encore, the Bizet, a cell phone rang, audibly. An older woman near us took the call and began talking right during the music! Incredible.

Sorry to say, but this kind of behavior is enough to make me stay away from concerts at Hill for the foreseeable future.