Re: "Live" music / manners

White (white@apcnet.com)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:56:08 -0500

>>
>E. Watkins wrote--
>Not directly related to music, but the Globe theatre in London has just been
>rebuilt and although I haven't had a chance to go yet I have been told that
>the audience are encouraged to eat, drink and make a lot of noise in keeping
>with the way the Shakespearean audience would have behaved.
>
Will they have Orange Nell peddling her wares? Not oranges, I gather, but
more intimate services? One of my grad professors enlightened us as to the
various types of activity that went on "behind the scenes" as it were (not
behind the stage).

I tend to agree with you. I'd rather people would go and enjoy. Our
community symphony had a hit the other day by including local kids doing
ethnic dancing to some Scottish pieces and bagpipers pipe and drum corps
marching in. Audience went wild! Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony was on
the first half and they patiently waited through it for the "good stuff."
They had a singalong of old favorite Scots tunes (it's an Scots area of the
country). We had Pakistani, African American, Viennese, Pilipinas, etc.,
all of whom were Scots for the evening. Then they had food afterwards and
the kids got to talk to the pipers in regalia. Joyce