Paul MacKay wrote:
>Wasn't it Mahler who first established this "tradition" of not clapping
>between movements? A friend of mine asked me recently why is it "forbiden"
>to clap after each movements. And strangely, although I always considered
>it obvious that it was a wrong thing to do, I could not give him any
>satisfactory answer.
How about because the work isn't over?
Walter Meyer