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Pete Caleb wrote:
>Which reminds me of a concert I once attended featuring a new work by Edwin
>London. In the middle of it, I noticed with alarm that one of the violists
>was talking at conversational level to her stand partner, as if she'd
>forgotten that this was a performance, not a rehearsal. Then I noticed
>someone else in the orchestra doing the same. Shocking! What was going
>on? More and more people began putting down their instruments and talking,
>and it finally became clear that this was part of the composition, ending
>with a general hubbub. Written by somebody who has rehearsed a few too
>many student groups, I would say.
My goodness, what will they think of next--maybe someone will write a piece
where the players get up and walk out one by one, as if they were Haydn
from something.
Bill H.
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