Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 1999/07

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: APPLAUSE
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:24:43 -0400

Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, John Dablin wrote:
>
> > However, Which is better, an audience which "knows the form", has
> > heard the music a dozen times before and is probably bored, and may
> > even be at the concert just because it's the thing to do, or an
> > audience that is hearing the music perhaps for the first time and is
> > clapping out of sheer enthusiasm from their response to the music?
>
> I'm afraid that's not the reason they are applauding. Rather, it's the
> television mentality - when the music stops, beat your hands stupidly
> together. That's also the main reason that applauding in church is
> becoming so pervasive.
>
> There's another sinister result of the same mentality. When watching
> television, when the music starts, it's OK to begin talking. We see that
> often when playing for audiences unaccustomed to active listening to
> music, rather than thinking of it as "elevator music."
>
> Ed Lacy
> el2@-----.edu
>

Ed,

I think you said the ugly word, "TV." It is okay to pay no attention to
whomever is talking. It is okay to watch and listen not. It is okay to
listen and not watch. It is okay to remain an idiot, to give no thought or
attention to what is going on around and then demand more stimuli.

The task for all of us who love music and the arts is to patiently show them
what's happening and where it is at.

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