Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>I've spent a few summer days in Amsterdam for five years now and have
>regularly attended their summer concerts given by visiting groups.  Every
>performance there has gotten a standing ovation.  Maybe Amsterdam audiences
>are even more provincial than those in Dallas.

Maybe, Walter, maybe...but maybe it's the polite Dutch way of telling
the orchestra that the audience, though needing to exercise its limbs
to to get its numbed senses jangling again, withal had had an evening
it could stand ....

Denis Fodor