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.

Mitch Friedfeld