But alas, amid a sudden pre-concert riot, a man uttered those very words to my friend, who was just trying to get footage of the fighting for a YouTube montage set to "Mmmbop".
Still, moments of convergence — a passage of blanched harmony in "Earthspirit" set against pale, white hues; "The Devil's Walk" (from "Madrigals") awash in lurid reds; sudden dusk at the concert's end — felt like more than synchronicity.
Strategies like this can be carried out at the level of society, by rules or social sanction, and surely help to explain Americans' extraordinary flight from addictive behavior in recent years — so sudden that it resembles a concert-hall panic.
"If you're playing a concert all of a sudden with Thomas Brinkmann, when you've never played a concert before, it forces you to a way higher standard.
Their music interests continued latterly in Oxford, and they were singing together in a concert only 24 hours before his sudden death.
One gesture that this work has in common with "Pipa" -- and with "Avatars," the solo piano work that closed the concert -- is the use of sudden, dissonant bursts, set against a backdrop that had been unfolding gradually and insistently.
Except that concert-ticket sales have taken a sudden dive, sending the company into crisis.
Throughout the concert the group showed its skill at sudden, utterly unified changes in volume.
Dramatically spotlighted throughout the concert, Mr. Siem favored an equally dramatic effect: sudden drops in volume.
This is the first time the Flaming Lips have hinted at the reason for Drozd's sudden hospitalisation in 2010, which forced them to cancel two concerts.
