Chris Bonds wrote:
>I don't mind clapping between movements that is spontaneous. Sometimes
>the music invites it. Example: end of the first movement of Tchaikovsky
>violin concerto.
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.
Paul MacKay
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