at it is a "spine-starched prig".
and left, thinking it was all over.
public at the lack of sophistication of his patrons.
symphonies seem fine with the practice.
CBSO performance at the Proms.
gives virtually every Broadway show receiving a standing ovation every night.
they'll start clapping at every false ending as well, with disastrous consequences.
no one thinks is a very good idea.
the music, and the less disruptive the applause is.
Applause is such an ugly noise too, unmelodious and completely destructive of whatever mood is generated by the music. But I reserve my unmitigated disdain for clapping along with the music. Does the conductor need help? If not, then why?
I'm in the no-clapping camp, only because I like to get on with it, hear the music and stop wasting time. Go to a dance performance and there will be clapping all over the place (understandably the dancers need more breaks) but let's move it along. Also, waiting to clap until the end builds up enthusiasm/tension in the audience and makes it more pleasurable for the audience and the orchestra. Otherwise the audience is simply over-doing it and dumbing down the experience.
Please turn your mobile phone off, please don't applaud at the end of individual movements, applause at the end is appreciated.
A message that needs to get through to concert goers. I fear that we are getting so used to listening to bits of music, on radio, in the car, etc that the feeling for the whole is getting lost.
I think the venue has something to do with the clapping being acceptable.
Outdoors in Central Park, Ok, less so at the Concert Hall.
On the other hand, there *is* an operatic tradition of applauding at the end of particularly beautiful individual arias, for the performer herself. Claqueurs as such don't arise until the 1830s, but the tradition goes back much earlier; the earliest attestation of which I am aware is in the period of Handel's Italian operas.
Why don't we applaud after every loud section WITHIN each movement? Wait – let's not stop there! Maybe there are some who would be moved to applaud after QUIET sections of music – after all, those quiet sections are SO moving, they TOO deserve applause! How about CONTINUOUS applause, since every NOTE is so beautiful! Where does this all end? Seriously, I don't know where the no-applause-between-movements tradition started, but it makes more sense. A symphony, whether it is in one movement or four, was conceived as a single opus – a single work. As for leaving it up to the audience to decide where to applaud, that is endless claptrap. May the sound decision of no-applause-between-movements prevail. Regardless of venue.
I just interviewed a conductor who noted that it wasn't all that long ago that when concert listeners DIDN'T applaud between movements, the orchestra knew something was very wrong with the performance.
What a gracious attitude. How will people learn to appreciate the music if they're belittled and made to feel uncultured when they do venture to attend?
For the most part, I am firm in my belief that there should not be applause between movements. However, the Pathétique is an exception. It has a tradition that has been welcomed by great conductors such as Leonard Bernstein. I have seen it performed live twice now (once with the Philadelphia orchestra and once with the Boston symphony orchestra). Both times there was applause after the march. The conductors quickly started the fourth movement. The eruption of applause followed by the sudden reigning in of the noise by the sorrowful sounding strings, in my opinion, adds to the effect of the symphony.