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01-24-2008, 08:46 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| My post sounds a bit hard - I stand often, but I stand for different things. (Okay, Bassdad - there is some fodder for your puns. APE fodder. Does that mean I'm bananas? Be sure to include one about music stands, too.  )
One reason I like to stand at professional concerts is blantantly self-serving. I want my fellow concert-goers to believe they have seen and heard something amazing. Then they will feel good about the time and money they spent. And then they might come back. And classical music will be thought of as good. And concert halls will be full. And then my kid might be employed someday.
I want people to have fun and feel good. I don't even care if they clap between movements. I don't want them to have to feel ignorant or uneducated or low brow. I want them to come back!
You didn't know I could be so manipulative, did you? | 
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01-24-2008, 08:50 AM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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| It's actually kind of self defeating though binx, as most of us here are holding the comp tickets.  | |
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01-24-2008, 08:58 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
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| Violadad...it's always good to be playing for the "home town crowd"...I tell that to my kids all the time. The home town crowd (family and friends) are a very appreciative audience all of the time...so what if they stand unnecessarily. Maybe they are all trying to get to the parking lot first | |
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01-24-2008, 09:03 AM
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#34 | | Member
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| Don't kid yourselves. By the time our children are in elite HS or local ensembles, they know when they play well and when they don't. I was often greeted with, "Why the heck did everyone stand after Granger?" or "I can't believe no one but you stood after Beethoven?"
Once they have a baseline, our rah-rahs are basically futile... | |
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01-24-2008, 09:03 AM
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#35 | | Junior Member
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| Please... just enjoy the music. | |
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01-24-2008, 09:04 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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| Violadad, I'm trying to make the people who actually paid for their tickets to feel good about it! (And every once in awhile, I really do pay for one. Sometimes my kid isn't even in it!) | |
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01-24-2008, 09:55 AM
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#37 | | Senior Member
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| I begin to see the fatal flaw in the ointment. Trying to organize elitist snobs is more like herding cats than apes. Unlike the old grouch who wouldn't join any club that would have him as a member, our members would never dream of doing anything so crass as forming a club. | |
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01-24-2008, 09:56 AM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| Instead of a club, why don't we start a garage band? | |
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01-24-2008, 09:57 AM
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#39 | | Senior Member
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| I don't mind the standing ovations. I do sit through many of them. I am bothered by applause after pauses, between movements and at other inappropriate times. | |
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01-24-2008, 10:04 AM
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#40 | | Senior Member
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| So instead of being a club, we would aim to perform in one? Well, I guess on the basis of names alone it is thumper on drums and moi on bass guitar. Lorelei could front the group. Anyone else... | |
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01-24-2008, 10:16 AM
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#41 | | Senior Member
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| BassDad....Thumper is a dead dog. But I'd be glad to sing. | |
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01-24-2008, 10:18 AM
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#42 | | Senior Member
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| Um... imagine all the standing ovations! | |
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01-24-2008, 10:30 AM
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#43 | | Senior Member
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| Why not? Imaginary standing ovations are the only sort that our garage band is ever likely to get, so we can also imagine that we earned them. | |
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01-24-2008, 10:39 AM
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#44 | | Senior Member
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| And we can imagine our wonderful music too, done with our imaginary friends. This has potential. Sorry for highjacking the thread!!
But we WILL deserve an imaginary SO!!! | |
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01-24-2008, 10:42 AM
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#45 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Coastal village, Suffolk County, NY
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| I am standing already, but unfortunately, I am being sneered at for my bad taste.
Au contraire, go guys are actually quite good!
Hey, I want to join the garage band. Vocalist. | |
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