Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 1999/09
From: "Daniel Stover" <kasparguy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More... Audience Distractions - A Response
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:39:20 -0400
I feel Stern's action was fine. The audience members that continually
coughed are the ones who should have had more respect. If you're having a
coughing or sneezing attack or your baby is making noise (though i'm highly
opposed to children under the age of 8 or so being at events such as a
classical concert, unless they are very well mannered), then they should
exit the hall until they have whatever the problem under control. And if
you can't stay awake please go home and go to bed, don't ruin the concert by
snoring through it. That happened several times this past summer at the
Oklahoma Symposium.
Last Christmas season i was at a performance of The Nutcracker here in
Houston. Right behind me was a family with 4 children all between 1 and 7
years old. There wasn't a single movement of the ballet in which we heard
whining and babling on of nonsense sounds and the occaisional scream and
cry. But they never once removed their kids until they calmed down. Even
though my family and others around us constantly turned around to ask them
to be quiet while becoming increasingly frustrated.
Daniel Stover
Houston, TX
kasparguy@-----.com
Frederick S. Sterns wrote 23 August 1999 16:04 More... Audience
Distractions - A Response
>Here's a true story appropos of nothing...and probably worth the
same...but
>here goes!
>
>A couple or three winters ago I attended a concert with Lyn Harrel,
>Ashkenazi, and Isaac Stern. It had been a bad season cold and flu-wise.
But
>every seat in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall was filled.
>
>After the second or third movement of whatever they were playing, Stern
>lowered his volin, looked angrily at the audience [I was in the fourth row
>center and could see every line in his face] and said, "This is a piece
for
>violin, cello, and piano...not violin and coughing. If you can't stop,
>leave the hall!"
>
>I'm curious to hear comments. My own view was, he should have known
better.
>I view this as inexcusable arrogance. What do you think?
>
>Fred S.
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