Klarinet Archive - Posting 000258.txt from 1999/07

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: APPLAUSE
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:23:39 -0400

Everyone's perceptions are their own realities.

No matter what, how, when, where etc. I have NEVER been able to get my
husband to appreciate good music, much less like it or respond to it
other than as those he sees around him - and we've been married 29 years.
Sometimes I even _sneak_ out to performances. He does not and will
probably never understand.

This experience has enabled me to be more tolerant of where people are in
their appreciation of good music and to approach them at that level
rather than reproaches. It IS however EXTREMELY frustrating. Therefore
in some instances, clapping is better than not clapping, and in other
instances (for even the same piece of music) not clapping is better than
clapping. It depends on the audience.
Paulette

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:24:43 -0600 Richard Bush
<rbushidioglot@-----.net> writes:
>
>
>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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