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Hehehe well i guess i'm one of them though.Originally Posted by mitchflorida
Once in the 9th, at the end of the first movement, i was so focused that when people started to clap i almost erupted. Then i understood i'd have to put with this audience in the entire evening.
The problem was that people didn't know why they were clapping. They clap because there's perhaps some universal law that i'm no familiar with that one always clap whether the concert is good or bad. I think it is instinct. Pavlov would definately explain it.
The down therm is that we loose absolutely necessary silence after the last note that we need to come down to Earth.
Aah, that blessed silence....
In the case of this, it lasted 40 seconds.
Natalie
It is contrived not to applaud after a movement in a symphony is over. My understanding is that people used to applaud between each movement until someone made a "rule" that Thou Shalt Not Applaud or do anything until the end of the 4th Movement, in which case you must wait at least 3 seconds of silence , and then you can applaud for no more than 40 seconds.
Anyone caught applauding first, or being the last one to stop clapping will be ostracized and whipped into submission.
Wagner asked once the audience not to clap during Parsifal. Just at the end.
Here is an interesting article about applauding between movements. Brahams was quite upset when patrons didn't applaud after a movement and wondered if they didn't like the Symphony. Stowkowski started the cult of the conductor that frowned on applause, which impinged on his control and grandiosity.
http://www.therestisnoise.com/2005/0...se_a_rest.html
Last edited by mitchflorida; Sep-07-2012 at 00:06.
Once audiences used to wander about and chat during concerts , would you like to see that return? I wouldn't be surprised.
Fools talk because they have to say something, wise men talk because they have something to say.
Once audiences used to wander about and chat during performances, would you like to bring that back?
Also I am quite sure that Stokowski was responsible for no such thing.
I thought I'd cancelled the above post.
Last edited by moody; Sep-07-2012 at 00:44.
Fools talk because they have to say something, wise men talk because they have something to say.
Reductio ad absurdum
You just copied that off someone else.
Fools talk because they have to say something, wise men talk because they have something to say.
Hehehehhehehe
It would be a tremendous schock for us to experience, let's say, an opera in the 18th century. Opera, back then, was as a social place as any bar or disco where we go nowadays. Thus the audience was very different from today's.
That's one of the reasons people don't go to Symphonies that much any more. If you need total silence, buy a CD version of a work and listen to it at home. Problem solved. No one clapping or coughing.
Last edited by mitchflorida; Sep-07-2012 at 13:10.
It isn't the reason at all--perhaps it's because of people behaving in the way that you advocate. Do you also cause a rumpus in the cinema and the theatre?
Fools talk because they have to say something, wise men talk because they have something to say.
Reductio ad absurdum
OMG - an article on the HISTORY of APPLAUSE. Now they've gone too far. Floggings all round!
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