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1st May 2023
10:29am BST
An orchestra performance in America was interrupted when a woman had a 'full body orgasm'.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was performing Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony at the Walt Disney Concert hall on Friday, when a loud moan was let out from the balcony.
Describing the incident to the LA Times, concertgoer Molly Grant said she was sat near the person who allegedly made the noise, and saw the woman "heavily breathing."
She said: “Everyone kind of turned to see what was happening.
"I saw the girl after it had happened, and I assume that she ... had an orgasm because she was heavily breathing, and her partner was smiling and looking at her - like in an effort to not shame her. It was quite beautiful."
A number of other people also reports of a loud moaning during the performance, including composer and music producer Magnus Fiennes, who took to Twitter to share his version of events.
An audio recording claiming to be of the moment has done the rounds on social media. For those of you who are curious, you can find it below, but maybe make sure you've either got headphones in or that your parents aren't in the room.
Despite the loud interruption, the orchestra carried on with their performance.
Classical pianist Sharon Su tweeted that she “checked with someone who works at the LA Phil and they confirmed” that the orchestra continued playing throughout.
In their online program notes about Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, the LA Philharmonic says: "The luscious main theme adapted for a popular love song; Tchaikovsky’s skillful orchestration, however, lifts the mood from sentimentality to high Romanticism."
And some thought the outpouring of passion during the symphony's "romantic swell" was "wonderfully timed."
Music agent Lukas Burton said: “One can’t know exactly what happened, but it seemed very clear from the sound that it was an expression of pure physical joy.
“A sort of classical-music equivalent of that scene in a movie where someone is talking loudly in a party or a nightclub, and then the record suddenly stops and they say something that everyone hears.”
She continued: “There was a sort of gasp in the audience.
“But I think everyone felt that was a rather lovely expression of somebody who was so transported by the music that it had some kind of effect on them physically or, dare I say, even sexually.”
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