From: Nick Jones <[log in to unmask]>

>What could be more unnatural than to sit through a bravura barn-burner
>like opening movement of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto, which
>tries its darnedest to elicit an unstoppable release of emotion, and
>then sit there in silence while the performers collect themselves to
>go on!

It's perfectly natural to me.  I guess it's the question of upbringing
-- going to real concerts from the earliest childhood, for instance.
No, I don't feel repressed.  Too much spontaneity is childish.

-Margaret