If audiences have nothing more to do than to examine dresses of performers or how much spit is dropped from the the instruments - measured in pints or liters does not matter - , there could be several reasons:
bad or boring pieces, bad or boring performance or a stupid, uneducated, unexperienced, antimusical audience. But, here it comes: there are several ways of "watering": the careless way as in the concert mentioned by Valerie or the careful discrete way, which is fast & nearly not noticeable. Well, over excited players can develop a higher body temperature than average, heating up their breath temperature, resulting in a lot of condensate in the instrument if the room temperature is quite low. But I think the room would be rather overheated in your country than cold. The decent & discrete way emptying the horn should not be that difficult, special with the water key. But we have to admit, that we have a lot of colleagues who do not care a dime about the audience, not regarding water emptying only, but regarding seating, attitudes, dressing, clean appearance (well shaved, "buttons locked, zipper locked" - hoho !) .. etc. ............ Some might argument what that had to do with a concert. Well, it has to do with selling the concert to the audience. And I have to agree with Valerie, that a concert is an audio-visual thing, not just to listen to. ################################################################### Am 16.03.2011 um 04:07 schrieb dabon west: > > Which confirms my view that audiences sometimes "hear" better with their eyes > than they do with their ears. The corollary being that a musical ensemble > (or another performance group for that matter) dressed in a formal concert > attire will sound "better" than those dressed in "come as you are" garb. A > matter of visual perception, not aural. Thus, the reason for blind auditions > behind screens perhaps. As a side note: this is possibly the reason the > older churches where the organ is situated in the loft UP and BEHIND the > congregation in which meditation and the accompanying prelude (etal.) music > is supposed to have a religious effect. No so in my church, unfortunately, > where everyone (or nearly most anyway) blab away in spite of the organist's > efforts. Incidental music as it were. Apparently "incidental music" is also > the view of the good lady doctor at the concert she attended where "water", > as a by-product of performance, had more of her attention (vision) than wha t > she heard. Maybe she would have had a better experience if the group had > played like blind auditioners: only silhouettes behind a stage drop; ergo no > spit seen. In the final analysis, no matter just how PC performers are, > there is always someone who is distracted by the mundane. > DW > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:25:19 -0400 >> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Water >> >> Spit happens ! Deal with it. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "valerie wells" <[email protected]> >> To: "horn list 2 memphis" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Water >> >> >>> Jeff Nelsen from the Canadian Brass has shared his evaluation: >>> http://www.thejoykey.com/en/testimonials/#nelsen >>> >>> My doctor attended a concert presented by a well known brass quintet (not >>> CB). The next time I saw her, I asked her how she enjoyed the concert. >>> She >>> told me that honestly it was very difficult to enjoy the performance >>> because >>> she was so grossed out by all the spit being emptied on the stage. > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
