Comments on: To Applaud or not To Applaud, that is the question. http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/ Tips and Resources for Private Music Teachers and Performers everywhere! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Weekly Gathering | Ian Sidden http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-122611 Weekly Gathering | Ian Sidden Tue, 04 May 2010 19:50:02 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/?p=712#comment-122611 [...] Rachel Velarde’s article at Music Teacher’s Helper on Applauding Guidelines: “To Applaud or Not to Applaud, that is the Question” [...] [...] Rachel Velarde’s article at Music Teacher’s Helper on Applauding Guidelines: “To Applaud or Not to Applaud, that is the Question” [...]

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]]> By: Rachel Velarde http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-106444 Rachel Velarde Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:39 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/?p=712#comment-106444 I am leaning more and more to the ALLOW the applause whenever and wherever it happens. Greg Sandow just wrote in his blog (www.artsjournal.com/sandow) about a project of the National Orchestra Institute concert where the young students took full control of the audience experience and innovated new ways to interact with the audience. The result was an engaged and participating audience - so EVERYONE was actively involved in the music experience. His full posting is here: http://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2009/06/noi_liftoff.html. I think that this is the kind of thing we need to do to energize the classical community, especially. If we proscribe when to applaud, etc, then we are almost making the concert experience like that of television - we just view passively, instead of being actively engaged in music. What's SO exciting about music is that it CAN and DOES cause a physical reaction within the body (see Evelyn Glennie you YouTube - she's a profoundly deaf percussionist who FEELS the sound waves with her whole body, since her ears don't work). Shouldn't music move us to take action, even if just applause?? Keep the comments coming - I LOVE an active discussion. I am leaning more and more to the ALLOW the applause whenever and wherever it happens. Greg Sandow just wrote in his blog (www.artsjournal.com/sandow) about a project of the National Orchestra Institute concert where the young students took full control of the audience experience and innovated new ways to interact with the audience. The result was an engaged and participating audience – so EVERYONE was actively involved in the music experience. His full posting is here: http://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2009/06/noi_liftoff.html.
I think that this is the kind of thing we need to do to energize the classical community, especially. If we proscribe when to applaud, etc, then we are almost making the concert experience like that of television – we just view passively, instead of being actively engaged in music. What’s SO exciting about music is that it CAN and DOES cause a physical reaction within the body (see Evelyn Glennie you YouTube – she’s a profoundly deaf percussionist who FEELS the sound waves with her whole body, since her ears don’t work). Shouldn’t music move us to take action, even if just applause??
Keep the comments coming – I LOVE an active discussion.

]]> By: Ian http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-106165 Ian Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:26:37 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/?p=712#comment-106165 Leah, surely the tradition arose when <em>audiences demanded</em> that the performers return. Sometimes, it's true, performers give mock extra curtain calls simply for their own sake, but I have been part of audiences that simply demanded more time to show their appreciation...and perhaps get another tune or two from the performer. Leah, surely the tradition arose when audiences demanded that the performers return. Sometimes, it’s true, performers give mock extra curtain calls simply for their own sake, but I have been part of audiences that simply demanded more time to show their appreciation…and perhaps get another tune or two from the performer.

]]> By: Leah Couts http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-106148 Leah Couts Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:35:46 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/?p=712#comment-106148 oh, one more thing, that is sort of relevant, does anyone know where the silly tradition of walking off and back on two or three times to receive more applause at the end of a performance came from? It seems pompous to me, and I just laugh at them inside every time. oh, one more thing, that is sort of relevant, does anyone know where the silly tradition of walking off and back on two or three times to receive more applause at the end of a performance came from? It seems pompous to me, and I just laugh at them inside every time.

]]> By: Leah Couts http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/to-applaud-or-not-to-applaud-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-106146 Leah Couts Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:34:17 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/?p=712#comment-106146 Wow, what a great blog! There have been times when even at the end of a piece, the atmosphere created meant that no-one wanted to break that moment, and no applause was given at all - that showed great respect to what the performers had created. I honestly think it depends on the music - if at the end of a movement, a great climax was reached and it ended with gusto, then the natural reaction is to applaud. I don't think it is okay to clap during a movement or piece like they do in Idol, for example, because I feel it is like interrupting a conversation, or talking over someone, and yes, the music will be lost. In opera, after an aria, there is applause, and the action just waits until it dies down - the characters are not broken, and the plot isn't disturbed for too long, and I think this could be the same for between movements. Part of being a performer is not allowing such moments to break concentration, and it is surely a great feeling to know your music is being appreciated. Wow, what a great blog! There have been times when even at the end of a piece, the atmosphere created meant that no-one wanted to break that moment, and no applause was given at all – that showed great respect to what the performers had created.

I honestly think it depends on the music – if at the end of a movement, a great climax was reached and it ended with gusto, then the natural reaction is to applaud. I don’t think it is okay to clap during a movement or piece like they do in Idol, for example, because I feel it is like interrupting a conversation, or talking over someone, and yes, the music will be lost.

In opera, after an aria, there is applause, and the action just waits until it dies down – the characters are not broken, and the plot isn’t disturbed for too long, and I think this could be the same for between movements. Part of being a performer is not allowing such moments to break concentration, and it is surely a great feeling to know your music is being appreciated.

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