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In Reply to: RE: Listening to some Classical Music posted by jedrider on September 25, 2014 at 05:09:33
Clapping at the end of the third movement has almost become a tradition. I heard it years ago in Philly at the Academy of Music with Ormandy and they went nuts after the third movement. Ormandy waited patiently until the uproar was over, then proceeded.Recently I heard it with the National SO, with Eschenbach conducting. He was determined not to let it happen, keeping his arms in the air at the end of the third movement and using every bit of body language he could muster, but there was still a considerable amount of applause. Undeterred, he dove into the last movement while there was still applause going on, which ruined that particular moment for me (overall, it was quite a good performance). Sure, I get it, in a perfect world the audience doesn't applaud there, but to charge ahead like that, as if he was teaching us a lesson, annoyed the hell out of me. "Two wrongs don't make a right"
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Earlier this year I've attended a Dohnanyi/CSO's 6th and the 3rd movement was so driving full of energy, the audience, including myself, could not help but to cheer the 85 year old conductor!
I saw him smiling so he didn't mind.
There is a pause late in the final movement, and the audience often applauds there........
In the 70s, I saw Rudolf Kempe conduct the Royal Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky 6. He left NO break between the last two movements--just instantly went from the triumphant march into those agonized strings. It was really quite an emotional leap from a cliff. I thought about the music quite differently after that--and also there was no chance for intervening applause.
"In the 70s, I saw Rudolf Kempe conduct the Royal Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky 6. He left NO break between the last two movements--just instantly went from the triumphant march into those agonized strings. It was really quite an emotional leap from a cliff. I thought about the music quite differently after that--and also there was no chance for intervening applause."
I recall several conductors doing this, but don't remember who in particular......
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