If she had stopped singing, signaled James Levine in the orchestra pit to halt the performance and asked the owner of that phone to take the call in the lobby, most of us would have applauded.
Jagger was later accused of failing to halt the performance, infuriating McLean's narrator: "I saw Satan laughing with delight; The day the music died".
Marie Bodnar, the district manager of Community Board 3, said the board had approved his permit applications because he agreed to confine the crowds to a short part of Armstrong Avenue between Highland Lane and Tennyson Avenue, and because he agreed to halt the performances at 8 p.m.
That performance halted the Mets' eight-game losing streak and set them on the road to 40 victories in 55 games and the playoffs.
Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, said Mr. Bush's performance halted "the questions about the stature" of the governor compared with Mr. Gore.
In one notable incident, maestro Alan Gilbert halted the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 until an audience member's iPhone was silenced.
Sam Troughton, the star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Park Avenue Armory, injured his knee during a matinee performance on Tuesday, halting the performance, said Nada Zakula, a spokeswoman for the company.
It was during the final minutes of the opening night on Feb. 14, 2002, that an extra playing a French soldier lost his footing and fell into the orchestra pit, halting the performance for several minutes.
He added, "But seriously, when did England become a police state?" In an essay posted Saturday at The Huffington Post, Mr. Van Zandt apologized, writing that he was sorry for blaming the London police for halting the performance and that his remarks were interpreted as a criticism of them.
