Klarinet Archive - Posting 000613.txt from 2001/02

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] The "one-chord" clarinet solo on THE
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:36:01 -0500

At 02:34 PM 02/16/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>The point that I was trying to get it is that audiences began to be
>conditioned to behaving as if they were in church when they went to a
>concert, sometime in the middle of the 18th century. Prior to that time,
>an audience let the performers know AT ONCE how things were going. They
>applauded when they liked something (often in the middle of the movement)
>and booed when they did not. Occasionally they insisted that a certain
>movement be repeated even before the piece was over, and the performers
>behaved in a very obliging fashion.
>
>Today, the audience is not a participant in the performance of works.
>They are played AT. They are obliged to behave as if they are in
>church. Don't yell and holler and scream if you like something. Just
>shut up and let us do our work, is the attitude.

This gives me the idea that perhaps one of our concerts next year should
include one that allows audience participation as you describe - with a
talk before hand, some good write-up stuff in the paper the week before,
and some good representative music that allows for an immediate response.

It all sounds very exciting to me.

RG

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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