MUSIC

Coughbusters: The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, one of the world’s renowned symphony halls, is giving away throat lozenges to keep coughing concert-goers from marring music performances. The 103-year-old concert hall began distributing eucalyptus and lemon-favored pastilles last week in hopes of suppressing a level of coughing, hacking and throat clearing that had begun to bother even the musicians. The hall’s director, Martijn Sanders, said he was inspired by a similar giveaway at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.