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« Reply #45 on: 17:40:34, 18-06-2007 »

Our audience here is very polite and quite, as a rule.

I remember going with my mother to some concert in the point a few years ago; people were still coming in up to forty minutes late (there was an accident on the road so many people couldn't make it in time), but then after the interval people were continuously coming in from the bar outside for about half an hour; the violinist got *quite* grumpy.

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People are afraid to breath. It doesn't even matter if performers are bad or good or anything in between.
One always knows if the audience is listening. But here organizers put cough suppressing candy and if somebody starts coughing they are offered them right away.

What's next? Forcibly medicating concertgoers before letting them into the concert hall?
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« Reply #46 on: 17:50:29, 18-06-2007 »

What's next? Forcibly medicating concertgoers before letting them into the concert hall?

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« Reply #47 on: 19:00:35, 18-06-2007 »

The best thing is semi retirement. This way the performer play when he wants. Horowitz was like that.
Life of a concert pianist is too hard to contemplate. Liszt retired while 35. 
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« Reply #48 on: 14:02:32, 12-07-2007 »

Glad I found this thread. Yesterday I received the programme for next season's Marlborough College concerts - I would post link to website, but it hasn't been updated yet. We have Adrian Brendel coming, and Emma Kirkby. As always, a few high quality concerts in our little town.
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« Reply #49 on: 14:06:07, 12-07-2007 »

Adrian is such a beautiful name, too. Our son is named Adrian. Oops, he just threw up all over me!
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« Reply #50 on: 20:09:23, 12-07-2007 »

I can strongly recommend the Adrian Brendel recital, Chichivache. The concert he gave for us was very special. (I'm sure Emma Kirkby will be very good too!)

I noticed on TOP that Alfred Brendel is charging about £50 for tickets to his recital in the Concertgebouw!
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« Reply #51 on: 21:34:20, 12-07-2007 »

My dad sent me a clipping from the Telegraph about Philip Glass. It said that during a solo piano recital he was giving, a member of the audience decided that the performance would be greatly improved if he came on stage and gave the composer a hand. Glass punched him with one hand, continuing to play with the other...
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« Reply #52 on: 21:54:02, 24-06-2008 »

There was a short interview (in English) with Alfred Brendel on Dutch television yesterday evening. You can see it here (in Windows Media Player):

http://www.novatv.nl/index.cfm?ln=nl&fuseaction=videoaudio.details&reportage_id=6142

For viewing the interview, please click on the camera icon.

Brendel gave his last recital in Amsterdam this week.

I love the Messiaen anecdote! Cheesy
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« Reply #53 on: 02:16:47, 25-06-2008 »

I love the Messiaen anecdote!
What, the one about how he punched someone with one hand while playing the organ with the other? Tongue
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« Reply #54 on: 08:48:49, 25-06-2008 »

I love the Messiaen anecdote!
What, the one about how he punched someone with one hand while playing the organ with the other? Tongue

No, the one about the elephant! Cool
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