[silence] Concert Behavior - After the Golden Age

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

dear all,

Silence is not what we artists want,” Kenneth Hamilton quotes  
Beethoven in “After the Golden Age,” a detailed reflection on concert  
behavior in the 19th and early 20th centuries published recently by  
Oxford University Press. “We want applause.”

[...]

Audience participation was taken for granted in the 1840s. The  
pianist Alexander Dreyschock was criticized for playing “so loud that  
it made it difficult for the ladies to talk,” Mr. Hamilton writes.  
Today’s listeners, still eager to make themselves known, have been  
reduced to subversive acts in a fascistic society.

[...]


Audience Involvement - Concert Behavior - After the Golden Age -  
Books - Music - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/music/08audi.html? 
ex=1357448400&en=ef494a7a803ebbfb&ei=5124&partner=delicious&exprod=delic 
ious



Oxford University Press: After the Golden Age: Kenneth Hamilton

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/ 
PerformanceStudiesAppliedMusic/KeyboardPianoOrgan/? 
view=usa&ci=9780195178265


allthebest,

Ralph Lichtensteiger
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