Fists Fly at the Boston Pops
PHILLIPS: Music and melody, sophistication and finery and a fist fight. It was an unusual opening night at Boston Symphony Hall. Reporter Ryan Chaufiz (ph) has the story now from our Boston affiliate, WHDH.</s>WHDH REPORTER: It was the Boston Pops biggest night.</s>CHAUFIZ: Everyone dressed in their fanciest outfit, excited to be a part of all the glitz and glamour of opening night, when about a third of the way into the program, it all came to a screeching halt.</s>JUNE MACINDOE, WITNESS: Well, the first time, there was a scream. Keith (ph) looked up that way, but he kept going. And then about, maybe a minute and a half later, then there was a big scream and then you could hear chairs falling over and then you could see them up there, fists going.</s>CHAUFIZ: Our cameras are rolling as two people duke it out. You can see here, one guy loses his shirt and he is escorted out. Conductor Keith Lockhart (ph) actually stopped the program.</s>MACINDOE: And just stood there, you know, quiet, and that was probably about, what, two minutes?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>CHAUFIZ: The knock down, drag out (ph) fight catching everyone off guard.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We heard a thump and a scream, and we thought somebody might have fallen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It wasn't classical, a beautiful performance like this, but things like that happen and you know, no one has control over that ... TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com