{"id":1222,"date":"2007-05-11T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T21:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/our_night_out\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T21:46:57","slug":"our_night_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/our_night_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was lovely. We need to do something like this more often..
\nItzhak Perlman was as impressive as ever. I’m still astonished that our little theater was able to book a performer of his caliber. The room looked to be sold out.
\nThere were three selections scheduled (no Mozart, alas), with an intermission between the second and third. We were rather surprised to see Mr. Perlman leave the stage after the first selection, but he was having difficulty with his bow. The tone quality of his violin was noticeably uneven, so I suspect he chose to leave the stage to select another bow.
\nWhen he resumed, he launched into Strauss’ Sonata for violin and piano in E-flat Major, Opus 18.<\/em> This piece has three sections. I’m sure he was surprised at the vigorous applause at the end of the Allegro (the first section). The audience quieted, and he went on. When they tried to applaud at the end of the Andante cantabile, he waived his hand in a little “no-no” gesture, and went on.
\nHe’ll probably remember my town as the “Hicks in the Sticks.” It seems that a large part of the audience has not experienced a classical performance before. The rules of the road for this type of performance are that you applaud only at the end of the piece. Despite all this, I’m glad so many inexperienced concert goers attended. I hope they’ll tell others what they learned.
\nPerlman was quite funny about the applause. He had to be coaxed onto the stage with extended applause after his third selection, Three American Pieces<\/em> by L. Foss. At that point he had to announce the selections he was going to play for us. At one point, he said that he’d been talking to Mr. Strauss out in the back, and that Strauss said it wasn’t necessary to applaud between movements. *G*
\nThere must have been easily 1000 people in the audience, probably more. Of all of those people, just ten were poorly behaved. Just before Perlman started to play the Strauss, someone’s cell phone rang, right at the front, near the stage! Someone else was rattling candy wrappers. Several other people felt it was okay to walk up the aisles as he played. This is another of those situations where I mourn the switch to more casual manners. Many of the members of the audience had no idea what was expected of them, but most rose to the occasion. It was delightful to see so many people enthralled with classical music!
\nThank you, Itzhak Perlman, for a wonderful concert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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