Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It seems that some composer should take advantage of this, and the current
>rage for audience participation in art, and score a section where people
>are *supposed* to open their candies. Entitle the piece, "The Contemporary
>pos-post-modern concert experience" and have cell phones ringing, pagers
>paging, people cough and critics wandering up and down the aisles reviewing
>the work as it happens....

Didn't Malcolm Arnold write a concerto for audience & orchestra with much
this kind of brief?

All the best,
Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>