[silence] Concert Behavior - After the Golden Age

[kraiggrady@anaphoria.com]

I guess when all the composers were dead maybe people felt lessinclined to clap for someone who wasn't there. So goes necrophilia!
(fascism likes the notion of a golden age too)

One of the great things about the apartment 1776 when it was done bythe LA Phil were the waves in which one section of the audience would break out inapplause latter another in booing, back and forth and maybe even overlapping!. It was truly uncanny and very unpredictableit seemed almost planned. Back to my post square investigations!
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From: Ralph Lichtensteiger [mailto:lichtconlon@t-online.de]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 05:51 AM
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Subject: [silence] Concert Behavior - After the Golden Age

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=delicious


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,


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