Proms audience behaviour

[Lento]

Someone was asking somewhere (the BBC digital blog?) why they no longer produce the online programme notes

I can't recall whether they were downloadable on mobile devices or just laptops etc. Excluding the former would prevent concertgoers from distracting their neighbours and wouldn't affect programme sales. I seem to remember the very useful downloads were only available for one or two seasons. Surely people weren't taking laptops in (they'd have needed wifi anyway).

[Bryn]

I have noticed that some of the audience applaud at a change of key, which in turn gives a lift to the players and to dancers if there are any. Of course I am referring to Irish music and dancing which have their own particular dynamism, and which would probably not be allowed into the Albert Hall until after midnight. (Joke alert)

Clearly you did not attend the Prom performance of Cage's Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake.

[MrGongGong]

(they'd have needed wifi anyway).

There is wifi in the Albert Hall
if you sit in the right seat you can get the free backstage network
(not that i've done that in a concert but have done a performance in there using streaming via Wifi)

[MrGongGong]

Clearly you did not attend the Prom performance of Cage's Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake.

Beat me to it
and a wonderful evening it was

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

and a wonderful evening it was

[Bryn]

Beat me to it
and a wonderful evening it was

You know, the strange thing is, I have no recollection of the performance of Les Noces which comprised the first 'half'. Just shows what a glorious experience Roaratorio ... was, that it could so eclipse any memory of a performance of so seminal a work as Les Noces (no pun intended).

[Padraig]

Clearly you did not attend the Prom performance of Cage's Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake.

But that was in the last century!
Apologies for my ignorance and for the feeble aspersions cast upon the venerable Albert Hall.
I bet it was a night to remember.

PS Off now to final recital in Walled City Music Festival.

[Serial_Apologist]

so seminal a work as Les Noces (no pun intended).

That's very good!

[Lento]

Credit where it's due following fine performance of the War Requiem.

[Richard Tarleton]

Horrendous coughing throughout Swan of Tuonela (per BBC4)

[Flosshilde]

Hòoping (cough) swan?

[vinteuil]

Hòoping (cough) swan?

... w-hooping, for coughs and swans, I think -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whooper_swan

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis

[Richard Tarleton]

The swan would indeed have been a whooper swan, tho' it sounds nothing like the cor anglais solo - to me the music suggests a swan gliding silently across a black lake, whatever JS intended. Alas the bronchial obbligato in the hall nowhere as evocative.

[euthynicus]

Credit where it's due following fine performance of the War Requiem.

Just what I was thinking. 1 minute and 45 seconds silence after the last chord died away. You'd be hard pressed to get that even in Germany.

[Lento]

Let's pray for peace after 1st mvt of Mahler 2 tonight, inter alia.