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DavidS000
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(7/23/01 9:43:53 pm)
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Coughing
audiences
At a recital, why do people in the audience always have to cough?
It just takes one person to cough and then everybody seems to join
in. Any solutions?
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Drake
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(7/23/01 10:03:43
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Don't publicize
your concert in any way
So you won't have an audience, and no-one will cough. Simple as
that.
Audiences cough. It's a fact. Deal with it.
Did I mention that their cell phones will ring? And babys
will cry. There's no way around this stuff - it's part of the
concert experience.
If you want a non-interupted concert
experience, rent the hall, but don't invite anyone. Or book a
recording studio if you want your performance recorded for
posterity.
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zambocello
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(7/24/01 1:12:17 am)
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Re: Coughing
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A couple of years back a reviewer for the NY Times observed that
the number of coughs during a performance more closely reflects the
level of boredom at a concert than the level of cold and flu cases.
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drcello
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(7/24/01 7:03:34 am)
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What's really
bad...
Is when the folks in the orchestra want to cough, or sneeze, and
they just have to bottle it up, lest they let fly in the middle of a
Grand Pause!
Marshall C. St. John
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M Stucka
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(7/24/01 7:27:42
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Coughs at
Ravinia
A weekend ago, the very last note of Zarathustra (a C-string pizz
in the cellos and basses) was completely obliterated IN TEMPO by
someone's single cough. It's certainly annoying when the cough
sounds like it's coming from some lout who didn't even TRY to stifle
the cough.
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Paul
Tseng ICS Staff 
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(7/24/01 2:44:37 pm)
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Lincoln
Portrait
...and don't even get me started on my Lincoln Portrait story at
Peabody! 
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GlenC
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(7/24/01 7:08:22 pm)
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Re: Lincoln
Portrait
Art Lande is a great jazz pianist. At a concert once, he suggested
that the audience cough instead of clap at the end of one of the
pieces. It was a refreshing change.
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Corrina
Connor
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(7/24/01 7:23:19 pm)
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Coughs in
Beethoven
I went to an all-Beethoven concert a few weeks back, at which
somebody not only coughed during the 2nd/3rd mvt join in the
'Emperor' Concerto, but threw up as well....quite near to me,
unfortunately.
IMHO, icecream should not be sold at concerts.
To many people (not myself), it causes an increase in mucus in many
people's throats, which causes coughing....combined with concerts
being in the winter 'flu' season, it's just a bad idea.
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DavidS000
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(7/24/01 9:13:22 pm)
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Lincoln
Portrait?
You have to tell us about Lincoln Portrait. I love funny stories
about concerts. It's so funny because everyone is usually so serious
at a concert and the atmosphere is very formal. When something goes
wrong, it is hilarious, such as the conductor who started the
orchestra with a mighty downbeat, lost his balance, and fell off the
stand.
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cello41
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Posts: 16
(7/25/01 1:45:14 am)
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Re: everyone is
usually so serious at a concert
I absolutely agree about coughing and, what's worse, when people
bring along cough candy in wrappers and torment you for looooooong
minutes while they try to unwrap them QUIETLY. Get on with it, we
all inwardly scream.
My 'problem' is laughing - least, it has
caused a problem for those sitting near to me at a concert. Some
pieces of music have great moments of humor - Haydn is especially
good at this. Apart from the deliberate jokes, sometimes you
suddenly realize that the composer has caught you out by playing
with your expectations and sometimes I just laugh in appreciation of
the subtlety of an idea. This is usually alright, indeed you often
see others grinning too, but there have been times when my modest
chuckle has caused offense.
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Beaker1
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Posts: 39
(7/25/01 12:34:02 pm)
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Cough
drops
The Myerhoff (SP?) symphony hall has huge bins of cough drops
however I didn't notice a lower number of people coughing there.
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Patricia2
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(7/25/01 1:14:09 pm)
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Is it a global
nuisance?
It really seems unbelievable to me at the NY Phil concerts; I often
wonder if it's mostly an American (& N. Zealand?)
habit.
And why can't people cough in the loud bits? Obviously
there's some kind of choice, or they wouldn't all join in between
movements!
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Paul
Tseng ICS Staff
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(7/25/01 1:15:01 pm)
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Re: Lincoln
Portrait?
It was in a conducting major's concert.
We had many people
who attend student recitals who were members of an Elderhostel right
next door to Peabody. One such elderly gentleman (actually not sure,
it coudl have been an elderly lady for all we know)
There is
a recurring phrase in the narrator's part that reads:
"..And
this is what he said. This is what Abe Lincoln said.."
at which
point this person cut the loudest wind-breaker you ever
heard!
It was classic!
Paul Tseng
My Website
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Tseng ICS Staff at: 7/25/01 1:17:08
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