The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
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I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.Emanuel Ax
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
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I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
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Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
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A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
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