Klarinet Archive - Posting 000621.txt from 1999/08

From: "Edi & Rose Malinaric" <emovi@-----.za>
Subj: Re: [kl] Audience Distractions - A Response
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:41:54 -0400

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From: Andrew Michael Schmidt <schmi179@-----.edu>
Subject: [kl] Audience Distractions - A Response

>I would like to briefly relinquish my lurker status and comment, as a
member of many concert audiences,...someday you may look out and no one will
be there to cough, applaud at the wrong time, or to listen to your music.

>AMS

How to reply?

One can only stand, applaud and call BRAVO, BRAVO - ENCORE, ENCORE...

Although I can relate an experience that makes all noises infinitely
preferable - a little 6 or 7 year old boy sitting in the front row, right in
front of me - obviously enjoying the efforts of the solo cellist. Hero
worship I can handle - BUT - did he have to wave his brilliant snow-white
programme out of time to my playing? No matter where I looked in the
audience the programme continued it's hellish march to a different
conductor - even closing my eyes couldn't remove the subconcious worry that
this might be a budding Mozart and that I was the one who was wrong. I
often relive that experience and wonder who he was and what happened to him.

Long live live listeners. - edi

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