Christine Labroche responds to Miguel Muelle:
>>[...]one sort of ends up feeling like a curmudgeon, or certainly like
>>a grump, by sitting firmly
>
>It may be difficult to sit tight but it is possible, and preferable if
>the standing ovation is to retain some meaning.
It is indeed possible. In just over 10 years of reviewing concerts here
in Victoria (where standing is also far too common) I recall standing
perhaps twice or three times.
Deryk Barker
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