Klarinet Archive - Posting 000822.txt from 2003/07

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mostly Mozart
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:02:31 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@-----.net]=20

> I won't wish sleepless nights on you, Tim, but I hope you let=20
> your mind run
> wild again. In real life, unfortunately, audiences can hear something
> similar, but considerably less competent, at the Wolf Trap=20
> outdoor concerts
> in Northern Virginia. These concerts feature top-level performers.=20
> However, as a letter to the editor complained in _The=20
> Washington Post_ this
> week, many people in the audience behave as if they were at a=20
> soccer match.
> They talk to their neighbors or, worse, they fire up their=20
> cell phones and
> yap, yap, yappety yap, all the way through the performance. =20
>=20

It is the same way at the Hollywood Bowl here in LA. The LA =
Philharmonic
can be on stage and the volume isn't too loud to hold a conversation so
people do... Oh yeah, then they spill their wine on you when they get =
up to
go to the bathroom (in the middle of a piece).

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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