Klarinet Archive - Posting 000878.txt from 1998/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cynthia's Christmas Concert
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 22:16:49 -0500

At 11:01 AM 12/23/98 -1300, Dan Leeson wrote:
>I was very touched by Cynthia's description of her emotions at her
>Christmas Concert in the Netherlands. And her story has an important
>musical message.
>
>At almost every concert that we play, a presumption is made about
>the audience decorum, and when that presumption is violated we feel
>that something went wrong. For example, it is considered inappropriate
>to applaud or otherwise express audience appreciation between movements.
>There is an unspoken understanding that requests that "you save it until
>the end."
>
>Yet this kind of behavior is not what was expected from the audience
>at a concert of, say, 1780. When they liked something, often in the
>middle of a movement, they demonstrated their gratitude right then and
>there. Mozart writes that the audience insisted on the repetition of
>a cadenza even before the movement was finished.
>
Oddly, the rules are different for different music. In a jazz concert, you
are generally EXPECTED to applaud improvised solos right in the middle of a
piece, even though it tends to cover the beginning of the next solo.
Sounds more like Mozart-era practice!

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