I agree with Mr. Ross’s view that the modern classical-music performance have too much of a rigid set of etiquettes. Concerts must become more flexible “in order to accommodate the myriad shapes of music of the past thousand years.”
I’ve only been to a single concert in my life and that was when I was young during an elementary music class school trip to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a viewing of “Peter and the Wolf.” As such I cannot say that I remember having experienced any rigidness and formality that Alex Ross speaks about in his article. However, it is my opinion that the protocol found in concerts has an underlying message that yells “curb your enthusiasm, don’t get too excited!” Is it any surprise then that not a lot of people
I’ve only been to a single concert in my life and that was when I was young during an elementary music class school trip to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a viewing of “Peter and the Wolf.” As such I cannot say that I remember having experienced any rigidness and formality that Alex Ross speaks about in his article. However, it is my opinion that the protocol found in concerts has an underlying message that yells “curb your enthusiasm, don’t get too excited!” Is it any surprise then that not a lot of people