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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: The Trout Quintet Gotcha!
Message-ID: <4957@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 03:07:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 03:07:23 1985
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Reply-To: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

>... I also recently heard a performance of Tchaikovsky's
>6th symphony in which the audience started applauding wildly
>at the end of the 3rd movement.  Some of them had already
>gotten up to leave when the orchestra began the fourth movement.

Could this perchance have been a San Francisco Symphony taped broadcast?
I attended the performance at which the Pathetique was presented, and
a sizable portion of the audience did precisely that. Michael Steinberg,
the Symphony's annotator, concurs in the opinion that this is one of the
great audience traps of all time (which is why I was ready -- I make a
point of arriving at a performance early enough to read the program
notes in an effort to gain some inkling of what is to follow. Steinberg's
are uniformly excellent.). Yet when I was listening to the Philadelphia
Orchestra broadcast of the same work, nobody was fooled. I guess the
Philadelphia crowd is somewhat more experienced in such matters...

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
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