The Secretary rushes back stage and has a heated debate with the mike man in the full view of the audience. This may hurt a few sensitive ears in the audience. If you had not brought your ear plugs and cotton wool, that is your problem. You somehow manage to train your ears to this audio assault, start really listening to the music. While you are deluding yourself that you will get at last some uninterrupted music, up comes the organiser, grabs a mike and invites the chief guest to say a few words.
Few words lead to a few more words.
After punctuating each sentence , with a profound cliche that he does not intend to come between you and the divine music, he concludes and hands back the mike to the artist. The music starts again. The audience's hopes of some more good music is rekindled. After a couple of songs, suddenly the audio assault comes to an end the speaker gives some croaking sounds and you can only see the lip movement of the singer. Once again the Secretary - now looking very annoyed rushes to the stage and there is a flurry of activity on the stage.