Mitch Friedfeld wrote:

>Margaret quotes Nick:
>
>>>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.
>
>Can you say the same thing after Part 1 of Mahler's 8th?  Audience silence
>after that is worse than unnatural.

Yes, of course I can say the same.  Music is music.  Why should Mahler
be different?

-Margaret