"Substantial evidence suggests that coughing in concerts is excessive and non-random," he said although admitted he did not have a full theory behind the rise in coughing at a concert.
Choosing her words cautiously, she said that she had not seen unruly crowds or excessive litter after the concerts, and that she received only three noise complaints all last summer, one of them from a Manhattan resident who objected to the sound carrying across the river.
The only nod to the gravitas the Philharmonic prefers to project during the regular season was the concert's (possibly excessive) length.
A 1977 review of a Motörhead concert noted how "excessive volume in particular figured into the band's impact".
The elusive Carlos Kleiber, who once quipped that he only conducted when his refrigerator was empty, had the best antidote for a maestro's excessive salary: he led the Bavarian State Orchestra in a concert for no fee.
The sound system employed for these concerts is of good quality without excessive amplification.
Accompanying this was a degree of emoting that would have seemed excessive in a staged production, let alone in this concert performance.
Further changes in the new regulations include a ban on "pre-ticked" boxes for payment of additional services, such as travel insurance, when buying a holiday, and on excessive "administrative" credit and debit card surcharges on flights and concert bookings.
And watch out for concerts, or you could find you've accepted an excessive in-kind or corporate contribution.
