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[astrotoy]

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Larry

[joeinid]

Very nice! Thank you for the link.

[nicoff]

Enjoying Mahler’s 3rd from a recent concert (last month). Great sound and 4K. These guys can teach a thing or two to the Met folks (the met site could not handle the traffic and froze).

[nicoff]

Watched a few concerts tonight. Very impressed with the video techniques used by the photography/video director. Someone is following the score and anticipates whats coming next. The cameras show every single meaningful passage of the music (and the musicians playing it).
And even if the sound is not of the highest definition, you can feel the natural acoustic of the place plus the combination of the visual and the sound provides an experience that surpasses (IMO) that of high def sound alone. I would take this experience any day of the week.
I also observed how the audience waits for the conductor to lower the Boston before clapping. One conductor took almost 45 seconds (an eternity!) To come down from his high and lower the baton. The audience remained completely silent until then. Bravo!

[Kingrex]

Is that when your suppose to clap. When the baton falls. I never knew that.

[Kingrex]

It would be cool to have a system that plays live stream and video concerts well. I saw a demo at my local store with a 7 channel amp, B&W speakers. I forget the brand of electronics. Its definitely a purpose design setup. With a large projector screen accompanying the audio it's quite immersive.

I got my setup to run the audio with my tv once. It was horrible. Open baffle and horns don't cut it. When I had a sonus faber sertup it did it better. The little Bose cubes and subwoofer made for TVs kicked butt for the purpose. But the Bose did not play music.

[nicoff]

Is that when your suppose to clap. When the baton falls. I never knew that.

I think that is a German (maybe European) thing. Obviously in Germany that’s how they do it. Here in America, we the public can’t wait that long to start clapping.

[astrotoy]

In classical music, normally the musician gives a visual cue, particularly if the piece ends quietly. The singer drops his/her hands, often dropping the head, the pianist drops his/her hands. Then turns the head toward the audience. In music, it is both the notes and the silences between the notes and after the last note ends. Even in jazz. Larry

“In music, silence is more important than sound.” – Miles Davis

[nicoff]

In classical music, normally the musician gives a visual cue, particularly if the piece ends quietly. The singer drops his/her hands, often dropping the head, the pianist drops his/her hands. Then turns the head toward the audience. In music, it is both the notes and the silences between the notes and after the last note ends. Even in jazz. Larry

“In music, silence is more important than sound.” – Miles Davis

The conductor in these cases is the one giving the cue. After the music ends, the conductor often holds the baton up for a certain amount of time. I did not time it, but 10-15 seconds was not unusual. The performance is over but for those 10-15 seconds the audience remains quiet. The audience starts clapping only when the conductor lowers the baton. It is as if the conductor is also conducting the audience. The audience can clap after the conductor says so. I have never seen that happen in the USA.

[fws3]

I was trained (by my dad) that you never clap if the conductor’s back is to you. A safer bet then the baton rule?

[nicoff]

I was trained (by my dad) that you never clap if the conductor’s back is to you. A safer bet then the baton rule?

Never seen that here in the USA. It seems that here, the audience takes over as soon as the last note is played. While in Germany the audience waits for the ‘ok to clap signal’ from the conductor.