'A Quiet Word About Concert Etiquette'

[Pabmusic]

...Personally, I would like Classical music to follow football...the colour coded kits for the orchestra could be bought as replicas by keen fans, to show their allegiance...

New kit every season? (We won't have stripes because they're too traditional.)

I also happen to think there is a yet to be exploited market for composer Party masks.
Imagine , for example, some bright young conductor taking to the rostrum at the proms to conduct the Resurrection Symphony, to be greeted by a SEA of Mahler masked heads in the arena. Magic !!...

What about a sea of Haydn's skull masks?

...Pineapple fibre is it?

The canned stuff will do at a pinch (trust me!).

[jean]

I genuinely think, in that very polite British way, the Prommers think this is what the performers want.

It's hard to see how they can persist in believeing this when the conductor doesn't turn round and acknowledge their contribution as he does at the end of a work.

[teamsaint]

well tinned pineapple IS cheap Pabs, so I'll run with that , for starters!!

Skull masks...oh YES !! And If Finzi ever makes it back to the proms, that picture of yours would be perfect. (apologies if it isn't the great man !!)

new kits every few years i think.....lets support the artists, rather than exploit the fans!! (and throw in a free CD or two !!)

Pabs, stripes seem to have be out of fashion, even at SMS.

Oh, and to keep on topic, a short announcement at the Proms about clapping would do fine. or discreet cards left on the seats where the main"offenders" are.

[Bryn]

It's hard to see how they can persist in believeing this when the conductor doesn't turn round and acknowledge their contribution as he does at the end of a work.

Some do.

[Sir Velo]

It's hard to see how they can persist in believeing this when the conductor doesn't turn round and acknowledge their contribution as he does at the end of a work.

Are you suggesting that they do it then just to rile the conductor and other concertgoers? Surely not.

[MrGongGong]

I'm thinking that the folks at CERN must have something to do with this ?
People are supposed to rant on about clapping at the Proms before and during the season NOT after it ?
some kind of Neutrino time travel methinks

[Pabmusic]

...apologies if it isn't the great man !!...

Start apologising. It's George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (or Kaye-Butterworth as he was at Eton and in the army).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Some do.

Well .. one does.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm thinking that the folks at CERN must have something to do with this ?
People are supposed to rant on about clapping at the Proms before and during the season NOT after it ?
some kind of Neutrino time travel methinks

Don't agree. I think that rants about clapping during Prom performances should be left until the season has completely finished. Selfish people that want to be noisy about the issue during the season just spoil it for others.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don't agree. I think that rants about clapping during Prom performances should be left until the season has completely finished. Selfish people that want to be noisy about the issue during the season just spoil it for others.

- inspired, BeefO; inspired.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Inspired, possibly, but irrelevant to the discussion. However, might I suggest we put this one on hold until it becomes topical?

[Beef Oven!]

Inspired, possibly, but irrelevant to the discussion. However, might I suggest we put this one on hold until it becomes topical?

Sorry dad.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[teamsaint]

Start apologising. It's George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (or Kaye-Butterworth as he was at Eton and in the army).

Oh dear. Apologies all round.

Fooled by the pipe disguise !!

[teamsaint]

Sorry dad.

Is HS2 involved in the timings on this issue at all?