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