Klarinet Archive - Posting 000601.txt from 1999/08

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] COUGH REMEDY
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:11:08 -0400

COUGH REMEDY

This is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas Rye for the BBC
Music Magazine.

Audiences? Who needs them? They cough; they chatter to their neighbors;
they tap their feet; they applaud in the wrong places, furious coughing
through the last, fading notes of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

The dramatic spell of opera is habitually broken by applause that
follows a famous aria, or when a star tenor enters.

But things have been getting heated of late; a music critic was
assaulted at a concert for daring to challenge one particular cougher,
while in New York, Kurt Mazur stormed off the stage mid-performance in
protest against another.

Much has been blamed on CD culture, which encourages people to behave as
if the auditoriums were the same as their living room where music in
consigned to mere background. Maybe we need to train ourselves to
listen with complete attention.

So, the next time you go to a concert, glare at anyone who dares clear
their throat unthinkingly or who drowns a quiet last chord with
premature applause.

--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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