On 12/7/00 (I've gotten behind again), Kevin Sutton wrote:

>...  In Dallas, we have the most namby-pamby audience of them all.  The
>stand and cheer Andy and the gang for delivering absolute dreck on a silver
>platter.  A recent concert in which Lowell Liebermann's orchestral suite
>from "Dorian Grey" was given its first performance, everyone just clapped
>their little hands off.  The piece was pure contrived schlock!  I think it
>would be a good thing to send a message to the conductor when a piece is
>awful!

So you're assuming that everyone agreed with your assessment of the piece
but was too polite to do anything but clap? Or that there is something wrong
with them if they didn't agree with you?

Tim Dickinson
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