Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2005/08

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Robert Schoen
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:33:21 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen C. Moore [mailto:stephen.c.moore@-----.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Robert Schoen
>
> On 8/5/05, Ormondtoby Montoya <ormo2ndtoby@-----.net> wrote:
> > it or not. In retrospect, I believe: "They are the audience and they
> > decide the issue.
>
> They must, and I apparently missed the memo. We almost always attend
> the Friday night concert of the El Paso Symphony; they will clap
> between every movement, sometimes they will even try to clap if there
> is something like a grand pause in the music.
>
> We decided to go to a Saturday performance of the same concert cycle
> since we liked it so much. Nobody clapped until the true end of the
> pieces.
>
> Several of the EPSO musicians say its the darndest thing - the Friday
> audience almost always claps and the saturday audience almost never
> does!
>
> --
> Stephen C. Moore / stephen.c.moore@-----.com
> www.capncheapo.com
>

Stephen,

This doesn't surprise me. At the Dallas Opera, we perform each production
four times.

Opening night: Friday....board members and society in general
Wednesday night: those with busy weekends
Saturday night: a real mixed bag audience; regulars
Sunday afternoon: the senior set

Each night's reaction seems very predictable and constant from year to year.

Friday we experience enthusiastic applause but controlled.
Wednesday is more subdued, maybe they are tired from the workweek?
Saturday is always wild...we never know when they will clap.
Sunday is like Friday but with more enthusiasm...but of shorter duration.

Forest Aten

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