Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 1995/12

From: niethamer@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: "New York" exit
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 21:43:58 -0500

I'll only add to Neil and Bob's posts that Neil *never once* made any
mention of how the orchestra played - just notice of the singers and
conductor. This is at the root of the problem, as Bob Yoon points out.

BTW, those ovations (before they ever *get* to the conductor and his
acknowledgement of the orchestra) can go on for quite a while if the
claques are going strong that night. And I'd give my right arm (or maybe
just the chance at an ovation) to get out of the Lincoln Center garage
before the entire audience turns it to gridlock/pollution city.

None of this excuses behavior that is, to be polite, ungracious to the
audience we're constantly trying to entice to come again, but in NYC,
that's the way it is, and life goes on.
David