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In Reply to: RE: Listening to some Classical Music posted by jedrider on September 25, 2014 at 05:09:33
You're right about the Horowitz concerts - he's usually playing works that are well known and many in the audience probably even knew his interpretations already from recordings. One critic (I forget who it was) used to call the audiences that attended Horowitz' concerts (and for that matter Cliburn's and a few others' too) "bullfighter audiences" - they were there to see the soloist triumph over the musical dangers and to yell "Ole!" in approval! (Well, just about!) ;-) OTOH, some of this results from a need for genuine emotional release: I remember one guy telling me about attending Gilels' debut tour of the US. At the concert he attended, some people were so delirious that they were pounding the walls at the end!
I can't remember if I posted this before, but I attended a performance of Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" with the LA Phil and Mehta many years ago. Near the very end where the music dies down into nothingness, just before the ghostly reiterations of Petrouchka's motive are sounded softly, some dolt in the audience started applauding and would not stop. Of course, this moronic behavior ruined the whole conclusion for the rest of the audience, and the real applause (after the real end of the piece) seemed more embarrassed than anything else.
However, I must say that I've been a perpetrator of a couple applause offenses myself. I remember attending a performance by Weissenberg of the Rachmaninoff Third and getting so excited by it that I had to scream "BRAVO!" at the top of my lungs immediately when the last note had sounded. On another occasion (and this was not too many years ago), I attended a performance of the Prokofiev Fourth Piano Concerto (the one for the left hand), and for some reason forgot how many movements it had. (I was thinking three, but it actually has four, the fourth being a short little postlude.) So there I was clapping by myself between the third and fourth movements, and thinking to myself, "Why am I the only one applauding?". As Governor Perry is fond of saying, "Oops!". ;-)
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The Beethoven Nine in Los Angeles, when Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic..... Not only did the audience applaud between the movements, it also applauded after the "Vor Gott" choral climax in the final movement.... (This is the only occasion I recall this happening.) Embarrassing.
The applause takes place at 10:40 of the linked clip.... (It was otherwise a mediocre performance. So you won't get bored waiting for it.) Dudamel looked a little miffed when that happened.....
That's great - thanks for the link!Of course, this is not so different from the first (original!) performance of Haydn's "The Creation", where the audience applauded when the sun came out (musically, that is)! I've sometimes wondered whether such audience behavior ought to be incorporated into the authentic performance practice for this Oratorio - HIP for audiences, if you will. Who knows, maybe Haydn expected it! ;-)
Edits: 09/26/14
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