Bittersweet symphony as fight erupts at concert

The audience at a concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra had an unprogrammed addition to their night’s entertainment — a fight between two concert-goers in a private box.

Maestro Riccardo Muti was nearly through the second movement of Brahms Symphony Number Two at the normally staid venue when the trouble started.

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