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Whoever knew classical music fans — nay, English classical music fans — could be so rowdy? At a concert on Monday night at Albert Hall in London, a group of “anti-modern music activists” disrupted a performance of Oliver Knussen’s “Coursing” by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. The Evening Standard reported that the protesters took over a balcony box, set off an alarm and proceeded to dump leaflets on the audience.
The leaflets called the concert, part of this month’s Proms series sponsored by the BBC, a “banal grab bag of other people’s musical effects.” The protesters then fled.
