(photo from here)
Strictly FYI, this is what classical music reads like to the rest of the music world. From BrooklynVegan re: the recent Hope Sandoval show:
LA Weekly spent a considerable portion of their Hope Sandoval cemetery show review
talking about the NO-photo policy. Now I know why. Hope Sandoval didn’t
just deny photo passes. She didn’t just post warning signs all over the
venue (see above). She didn’t just have someone give a stern, pre-show
announcement. Hope basically had her own security detail on hand to
blind and humiliate would-be-photographers (and anyone near them) with
flashlights. During the second song, one of the security guys actually
jumped into the crowd and rammed through a group of people to stop
someone.
I wonder what the legal ramifications are of having your own private army attacking photographers. I work at a prominent regional theatre, and we had an incident with an illegal photographer a couple years ago. Most of the time when you catch someone taking pictures, they’ll just make up some story about not hearing the announcement and then delete the photos without argument. However one night a rather large gentleman decided that he wouldn’t cooperate, and then one of our staffers tried to take the camera away from him. He then sued the theatre for aggravated assault, and our lawyers tell us he would have won if he hadn’t missed his court date (lucky for us). Apparently, our local law states that he would have only been in the wrong if he had attempted to sell the pictures, and that even though we have posted notices prohibiting photography, we can’t legally stop it.