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From: gayde@ihuxp.UUCP (Peter Gayde)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: The Trout Quintet Gotcha!
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 11:28:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 11:28:27 1985
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>... 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.

The greatest "gotcha" in my experience is in the last movement of
Tchaikovsky's FIFTH symphony.  There is a great climax, with a
tympani roll and a loud brass fanfare which most unsuspecting
audience members would mistake for the real coda.  I once attended
a Detroit Symphony rehearsal where the musicians applauded at this
point in mock derision, having obviously experienced this during
previous performances.  Some conductors I have heard continue
immediately into the coda so that there is no chance of applause
starting too soon.
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