Slugfest at the Symphony

CHICAGO -- It was an unusual backdrop for a fistfight: Maestro Riccardo Muti was nearly through the second movement of Brahms Symphony No. 2 at the normally staid Chicago Symphony Orchestra when two patrons went at it.

Concert-goers at Orchestra Hall were all the more stunned Thursday because the two men were fighting in one of the boxes where the well-to-do normally sit in decorous self-restraint.

"We heard a rather loud thump," said Steve Robinson, general manager of Chicago's classical and folk music station 98.7 WFMT, who was at the performance but didn't see the fracas. "It wasn't so loud that everyone jumped up and ran for the exits."

Police said the fight was the result of an argument over seats. The older man had a cut on his forehead; the other left before officers arrived.

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