In response to yesterday’s article about audience feedback during concerts, a member of a major orchestra viola section sent in some worthwhile observations and strong feelings about standing ovations, rhythmic applause, clapping between movements and booing:
What’s Good For The Goose
More on the whole booing issue, I ran across this wonderful suggestion from oboist Patricia Mitchell’s blog, oboeinsight: Anyway, if the audience wants to boo, fine. May we boo back when they are annoying? 😉 It made me remember an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is the featured piano soloist performing Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. Right before Bugs begins to play, there’s a patron who keeps interrupting his concentration by coughing. After …