First of all, I hope everyone enjoys music.
The last thing I want to see is that classical music becomes
some kind of "privilege" for certain people --- and makes people
feel that it's kind of far far far away to reach, which might be
one of the reasons that it's losing audience today.
Sometimes in some concerts with special promotion, we see many
people from not-so-city-like areas, and also some young students
and young kids. Maybe it's the first concert of their whole
life. They seem enjoy it so much, although they might not
applaud in a so-called proper time. But, what's more important
for me is that they walk through the door of the classical music,
and this concert is their first concert, but not the last one.
Classical music is serious music today. But long long long time ago,
it was just some kind of "background" music and was private music.
The culture is changing, but, for me, the most important thing is
to let more and more people enjoy it.
What a coincident that Jansons has an article about this today.
I haven't had a chance to read it. Let me come back with it later.
One thing: Applauding at improper time may quite disturbing for
other people. But I think National Concert Hall should be responsible
for doing some "music education". Why not enclosing a note in the
program to remind the audience when to applaud (or when not to
applaud)? It might be helpful for those new audience to
learn the "cultulre" of today's classical music concert,
and for those more experienced audience not to be "disturbed".
Suskind
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