Kevin Sutton replied to Mike Leghorn:

>>Speaking of standing, it bothers me when everyone stands up during the
>>Halleluiah Chorus in the Messiah.
>>
>>1) It's distracting
>>2) It's knee-jerk behavior
>>3) Shorter people get burried in the crowd
>
>And it's an historical tradition that you obviously don't understand.
>It is not knee-jerk behaviour at all.

Exactly!  I don't understand the tradition, and a lot of of other people
don't understand it.  So why do they do it?  (Answer: knee jerk.)

>As for shorter folk, geez, what is there to see?  Close your eyes and
>listen.  There's not much going on up there that is so visually interesting.

Being burried in a crowd not only blocks your vision, it muffles the
sound.

Mike