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"I've gotten a steady stream of concert requests," she said.
A pre-concert request may have made clear that fans were not invited to record the show, but presumably no mention was made of the consequences of ignoring the request: having your phone stolen and destroyed, in the process losing personal photos, contacts, text messages and other unrecoverable data.
Ms. Messina is at her happiest in scold mode, which she often was during this breezy, affable and sometimes sharp show, a scaled-down version of her Music Room Series tour: part concert, part request line, part talk show.
Clap at the end of a concert to request an encore.
After arranging music for one of Ellington's Carnegie Hall concerts, Mr. Henderson requested that his name be in the program.
We feel so depressed we come give a free funeral concert, her last request.
Three years to the day after giving herself a three-year deadline to make it as an actress, Ms. MacIntosh got a call from the director JoAnne Akalaitis asking her to talk about a play called "Request Concert," which gave her a steady run of work through the 1980s.
The conductor, Mr. Mehta, kept his thoughts to himself after the concert, declining all requests for interviews.
Before leaving with Mr. Stravinsky for Johannesburg, Mr. Craft said that a telegram had been sent to the South African Broadcasting Company, which is organizing the concerts, with the request that they be open to everyone.
"It's akin to having a handful of front-row seats to a U2 concert, but unlimited requests," said Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who as the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee was in charge of parceling out real estate to his colleagues.
(Personally, I found the requested concert performance of Beethoven's happily-ever-after prison opera Fidelio a touching insight into the humanity behind this woman's heroism. If I had to endure a 15-year house arrest, I doubt I'd want to live on a diet of Badac's extreme political theatre and Rage Against the Machine either).
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