All Entries Tagged With: "audience"
Miss Manners Solves Opera Lovers’ Spat
A tip from Sweet Juniper has brought this amusing item to Miss Mussel’s attention. Miss Manners, once again, has precisely the right answer.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008 Daily Herald
DEAR MISS MANNERS
Although I consider myself to be a great lover of music, I have uncertainties about contemporary concert etiquette. I am lucky enough to have generous [...]
This One Time….
Four years ago, I was contracted by happenstance to play the Beethoven Horn sonata on a charity concert. The stance, as it happened, was that I was practicing for my Masters recital in the concert hall just before the pianist had booked some time and the rest, as they say, is history. The [...]
Tuesday Links
Bernard Holland has an excellent piece in the NYTimes on audience behaviour in centuries past. It doubles as a sort of review of Kenneth Hamilton’s book on the same subject After The Golden Age, the premise of which is: if music is to go back to original instruments and original performance practices, it has [...]
Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit…
A couple of years ago, Miss Mussel was lured to a Halle Orchestra concert by a bit of Tchaikovsky. This is noteworthy in itself, as she almost always find his works to be overly sentimental, deathly dull affairs. The ticket led to a balcony seat next to a pair of women in their forties [...]
