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Concert Rage in Hong Kong - What is happening to our society?

Air rage.. road rage.. and now concert rage?  Last night I attended the wonderful first night of the  43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival . The Arts Festival is an annual treat during which we have the opportunity to experience masterly and challenging performances from the worlds' most talented artists. Last night's performance by  Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden  was exquisite. The programme opened with Strauss's Metamorphosen, a poignant reflection on war and a memorial for a world destroyed during the bombing of Europe in World War Two about which the composer wrote:  “2000 years of cultural evolution had met its doom, and irreplaceable monuments of architecture and works of art were destroyed by a criminal soldiery.” A phenomenal opportunity and an evening which generated reflection on man's ability to create and destory? Yes.. but not provoked by Strauss's music.  In the dying moments of the Metamorphosen, an over-enthusiastic member of the a