Klarinet Archive - Posting 000267.txt from 1999/07

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: APPLAUSE
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 01:29:50 -0400

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 23:03:03 +0100, johnd@-----.com said:

> To get back to Avrahm Galper's original post:-
> >
> > Applause
> >
> > This was taken from this mornings' newspaper:
> >
> > In 1997 when the Vienna Philharmonic played in OrangeCounty,
> > California, the audience shocked the European musicians by
> > applauding after each movement.
> >
> > Conductor Daniel Barenboim took revenge by refusing to play an
> > encore.

[snip of intelligent stuff that I mostly agree with]

> ... no prizes for guessing which conductor I would have voted for if I
> were a member of the Berlin Philharmonic :-)

Me too, probably. But it might have been a close thing.

It's worth noticing that although the newspaper reporter draws the
inference that Barenboim 'took revenge by refusing to play an encore',
we don't know whether that was actually true.

Are there more facts in the article to justify that, Avrahm?

Don't forget,

"Never look for anything resembling justice from the press. The basic
tone of the press is a cruising, omnidirectional hostility."

Whether or not to play an encore is a matter of judgement. You don't
get them as a matter of course.

When I worked with him, Barenboim was anything but a stick.

Tony
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