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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: The classical audience posted by gd on March 6, 2001 at 14:54:40:
Yes, the riots weren't love riots, but my point was that the people were at least moved by the music, a phenomenon which I wish I saw and felt (if not heard) more often at classical concerts.I don't mean to come off as anti-classical. I know that when I'm at the symphony I can get very annoyed with peoples' seeming obliviousness to the noises they make. I brought a roommate once who emitted a high-pitch whistle through his nose that was very audible during quiet passages and directly in my ear; it really affected my enjoyment.
For the most part silence is golden at any kind of musical event and I actually wish that symphony audiences were QUIETER in general, but more involved and spirited. As a matter of fact, I think that if they were more involved then they might be more attentive to the little gum-wrapper/whispering/rustilng noises they make during quiet passages. My complaint is that this very passive/uninvolved/quiet comportment is spilling over into jazz where I feel it doesn't belong. Yes, a ballad, there should be practically dead-quiet, but when a soloist does something daring and spectacular and explosive and someone from the audience encourages him vebally, the performance can go to a whole new level and the band can continue to build from there. A dead-still jazz audiences makes for better bootlegs but unspirited music. So while I'm not always advocating noise, I do believe that impassioned, focused audiences make for greater performances, and that the performers can feel an audiences intensity, even if the audience is dead-silent.
Thanks for your perspective.
--davidps. Please don't judge jazz music's passion based on Wynton's performances, whether classical OR jazz!
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Follow Ups
- Points well taken... - daveemac 01:52:35 03/07/01 (1)
- Thanks for responding... - gd 18:43:04 03/07/01 (0)
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