A hand-embroidered bra was thrown at Ray Chen during applause, after his Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto performance in Munich with the RSNO.
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Audience member throws bra at Ray Chen after a rousing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
19 January 2024, 15:09 | Updated: 19 January 2024, 15:44
A hand-embroidered bra was thrown at Ray Chen during applause, after
his Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto performance in Munich with the RSNO.
Picture:
Ray Chen
By Siena Linton
An appreciative audience member threw their
underwear onto the stage after Chen’s stirring performance of
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in Munich.
Amid rapturous applause from a Munich
audience, an unidentified object flew onto the stage as star
Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen took a bow.
He’d just performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto alongside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
and conductor Thomas Søndergård on the third night of their European
tour, when an audience member had a somewhat unusual reaction to the
night’s performance.
It’s hard not to be
moved by Tchaikovsky’s concerto, but one audience member in particular
had something to get off their chest.
From somewhere in the venue’s upper gallery a black bra soared through the air, landing amongst the first violins of the RSNO.
A
chuckle passed through the section as they handed the undergarment
forward towards Chen, who accepted the item with surprise and disbelief.
He told Classic FM: “My first thoughts were, ‘No way, is this actually what I think it is?!’
“The orchestra thought it was hilarious,” he continued. “Everyone was quite excited. It felt a bit like a rock concert.”
A hand-stitched treble clef was sewn into a bra, thrown at violinist Ray Chen after Munich concert.
Picture:
Ray Chen
“I just got thrown my first bra,” Chen posted
on social media. “If only I could tell my 13-year-old self: If you
practice hard enough and sound good, people will throw themselves (and
their underwear) at you.”
He shared a close up photo of the bra, revealing one cup adorned with a hand-stitched treble clef.
This
wasn’t the first eventful night of Chen’s tour, or the last! A broken
string interrupted his performance the previous evening in Eindhoven,
Netherlands, and the following night in Mannheim.
Not to mention Chen’s catastrophic string break
and masterful recovery that went viral in 2021, whilst playing the very
same Tchaikovsky concerto with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra...
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