{"id":309,"date":"2006-01-09T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-01-09T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:05:00","slug":"comment_let_us_now_applaud_or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/01\/comment_let_us_now_applaud_or\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Let Us Now Applaud. Or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader John B. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmeridian.blogspot.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">an estimable blogger<\/a>, comments on the apparently endless fascination of Rifftiders with the phenomenon of applause.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/applause_applau_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">this is an old post of yours<\/a>, but I excuse this by saying that I&#8217;ve just learned of your blog and so &#8220;it&#8217;s new to me.&#8221;  Apologies in advance for prattling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This topic reminds me of something that happened at a concert by a Slovak orchestra that I attended some years ago in Mobile, Alabama.  I can&#8217;t remember the piece now, but at the end of the first movement many in the audience began applauding.  The conductor, somewhat bemused, half-turned and acknowledged it with a slight bow of the head.  But now a precedent had been established: at the end of the second movement, the audience again applauded.  This time, though, the conductor&#8217;s expression as he turned was a considerably less patient one&#8211;the smile tighter, the nod of the head slower.  For me, at least, that moment created a tension that lasted the rest of the concert; the focus wasn&#8217;t on the music but on that whole constellation of behaviors involved in concertgoing that were transgressed in part that night.  The night became a question of what, in the end, do we attend concerts for: to hear music or to observe the obsequies attendant upon hearing music?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I suppose an appropriate analogy would be a deviation from the norm of a high-church&#8217;s liturgy: Being a high-churcher myself, I am drawn to liturgy&#8211;it connects me to the church&#8217;s long, long past in a way that more informal forms of worship do not.  But I&#8217;m not there to worship liturgy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Rifftides reader John B. an estimable blogger, comments on the apparently endless fascination of Rifftiders with the phenomenon of applause. I know this is an old post of yours, but I excuse this by saying that I&#8217;ve just learned of your blog and so &#8220;it&#8217;s new to me.&#8221; Apologies in advance for prattling. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}