Post by stevemacdonald on Feb 19, 2006 22:48:05 GMT
I had a chuckle when I read how the Minneapolis audience broke into premature applause before Hayley's "Both Sides Now" was finished.
There are several hilarious cases in live classical music where audiences will always start clapping only to quash their ovation abruptly when they realise what's going on.
Most well-known is Haydn's "Joke" quartet. From Amazon: "Op. 33, No. 2, nicknamed "The Joke" for its finale, whose coda is punctuated by several "fake" endings: general pauses of increasing length designed to tempt the audience into premature applause. To make its full effect, this "joke" depends on watching the players sit in frozen silence."
Then there's Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony which has a false ending before the actual finale. Play this at an outdoor Summer festival and you'll get huge applause because it's so convincingly over ... except that it isn't at all. Some conductors warn audiences ahead of time, but many do not, preferring to glare wickedly at their naive intrusion.
There's a little more leeway to applaud right after the second movement of Beethoven's 9th. How can you not? Played well it deserves its own exception since it doesn't pretend to be the conclusion. (Purists will always object to spontaneous outbursts, but like Ludwig, I turn a deaf ear to them.)
I'm sure Hayley and her music arranger were having fun with this and knew beforehand what would likely occur. I mean, c'mon!
There are several hilarious cases in live classical music where audiences will always start clapping only to quash their ovation abruptly when they realise what's going on.
Most well-known is Haydn's "Joke" quartet. From Amazon: "Op. 33, No. 2, nicknamed "The Joke" for its finale, whose coda is punctuated by several "fake" endings: general pauses of increasing length designed to tempt the audience into premature applause. To make its full effect, this "joke" depends on watching the players sit in frozen silence."
Then there's Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony which has a false ending before the actual finale. Play this at an outdoor Summer festival and you'll get huge applause because it's so convincingly over ... except that it isn't at all. Some conductors warn audiences ahead of time, but many do not, preferring to glare wickedly at their naive intrusion.
There's a little more leeway to applaud right after the second movement of Beethoven's 9th. How can you not? Played well it deserves its own exception since it doesn't pretend to be the conclusion. (Purists will always object to spontaneous outbursts, but like Ludwig, I turn a deaf ear to them.)
I'm sure Hayley and her music arranger were having fun with this and knew beforehand what would likely occur. I mean, c'mon!
