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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, But Only When You Should

Posted by Brian on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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And here is the point that I call your attention to Alex Ross’s talk about applause/concert etiquette at the Royal Philharmonic Society in London and Tim Smith’s extremely astute commentary on the matter. I’ve not much to add to this discussion. In this instance, at least, I prefer that my actions speak louder than my words.

Pull Quote: Anthony Tommasini —

Posted by Brian on Sunday, February 14th, 2010

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on the trend of new music players and composers mixing ideologically opposing streams of contemporary music on the same program.

[via New York Times]