More and more performers—from Madonna to Childish Gambino, Haim, and Justin Timberlake—have been using it.
—the artist delivers a pointed screed from the stage asking if everybody, for just one song, could put their phones away and be in the moment, if you all could try to experience what’s going on together, in real time? I have, and...it’s awkward. Good, but awkward, as that faint sense of shame and self-righteousness—I mean, look at thoseWhat’s surprisingly less awkward: not having a phone to put away to begin with.
“We had three things come together,” says Leah Johnson, Lincoln Center’s chief communications and marketing officer: “Henry Timms, our new CEO, told us about an amazing quote from the first president of Lincoln Center, William Schuman, who talked about the arts as ‘an antidote to our automated age’...and something that serves as ‘a creative illumination to counteract the push-button emptiness of our mechanized lives.
Johnson told me about attending a recent opening night performance of the New York Philharmonic when an Amber Alert reverberated from cell phones throughout the concert hall. “At first I thought, That can’t be part of the symphony, can it?” she remembered. “You might think that people who are disposed to attend a classical music performance might already be attuned to the need to turn their phones off—you’d be wrong.
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