Paul MacKay writes:

>>why is it forbidden to clap after each movement...

and Thomas Warren responded:

>It is not "forbidden", but there is an unwritten law that it just isn't
>done.

Something else that just isn't done (anymore) is booing or hissing.
And I'm not sure that *that* abstinence is altogether a "good thing".
If Stravinsky, Mahler, Brahms, et al could survive it, I feel it might
be doubly beneficial to some of the poseurs out there.

Mark
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