Klarinet Archive - Posting 000794.txt from 1999/10

From: "Michael Whight" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Yo there, piano guy! Boooooo!
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:13:12 -0400

When you go to a restaurant that serves you bad food for an awful lot of
money and the waiter asks if everything is all right do you reply " Yes,
lovely thanks".

Very British:)

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Countryman <craigc@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] re: Yo there, piano guy! Boooooo!

> I agree with David. Especially for those of us on the list who have
> performed before and know what it is like to be up there, you should try
to
> emphathize and imagine how it would feel if you had to hear boo's and
jeers
> at the end of a performance.
>
> A lot of it depends on the circumstances of the performance of course....
> for instance, you wouldn't boo a sixth grade band which just played an
> arrangement of Beethoven's Ode to Joy would you? Yet, surely, it wouldn't
> be up to the same standard as the local orchestra's performance of that
> piece. I can't think of circumstances that justify booing though -- that
> really is the ultimate in rudeness and just isn't called for. Surely the
> audience has the right to an opinion, but you have to weigh what is more
> important: expressing that opinion or showing respect for a performer.
I've
> played in front of people before, but it still makes me pretty nervous,
and
> if I goofed a solo part in a band work or a passage of the Mozart Concerto
> and people booed me I don't know if I would ever get up in front of people
> again. In the long run, consideration for others is certainly more
> important than an expression of opinion that doesn't benefit anyone
> involved.
>
> Craig Coutnryman
>
>
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