A few years ago a rather good homosexualistical cinematographic film was made after a rather less good novel ("The Page Turner") by David Leavitt. It examines in intimate detail the emotional relationship between two virtuosi and their young turner who while he aspired did not in the end have the requisite temperament.

Having Googled just now we find that the French have heterosexualized it in a second cinematographic work - not the same thing at all we should think.

I can't believe I'm reading this in a Sydney G. post! Does this mean that somewhere in the Grew subconscious dictionary of scurrilous grammatical misdeeds there lurks a "burglarized"? or perhaps even a "targetted"?

It's difficult to turn pages well - it's always terrified me! I find the thought that the performance could be spoiled by the page-turner too much to cope with.

I got pressed into page turning several times for choral society concerts my Dad was singing in, often it was at the organ, so I was invisible anyway.  Fortunately no major mishaps to report though.  hadn't done it for some years, but then earlier this year was singing on a visiting choir gig at Sheffield Cathedral when the organist leant over shrotly before the end of the service to ask if I could come and turn for him during the voluntary (unusually the console is at floor level, immediately adjacent to the Cantoris stalls), so I processed out with everyone else, dropping off the back of the procession as it turned left to go into the vestry, strted turning, and then get asked to pull the stops as well.  Fortunately again managed without mishap.

I believe so George

I've turned pages, as well as having had them turned for me. And it's one hell of a tricky business. THE problem, of course, is that the turner must sit on the pianist's left in order not to block the audience's view. This of course means a fair old reach to grab the *top right hand corner* of the page, without blocking the pianist's view of the music. So no wearing of jackets, since, as you'll obviously be using your left hand to turn the page, there's the danger that the whole of the left side of the jacket will dangle in front of the music. And it just looks naff if every time you use your right hand to hold it close to you in order to prevent this!
The other thing is timing. Pianists are sometimes fond of nodding discretely when they want you to turn. But not always, and sometimes they forget anyway. So you need to agree a rule-of-thumb strategy ahead of time (two or three bars before the end of the page is usual, but of course if the music's whizzing by and the player is, er, physically extended, it could be more.)
And, know where the end of the movement is! Especially in moder repertoire, this is not always obvious, and there's nothing worse than turning a page only to then have to sit there like a lemon and watch the pianist cough, wipe his/her hands/brow etc. etc.

Did you actually expect it to effect your enjoyment? Or to affect it?

I give as goose as I gander.