Word: clappings
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...Science Center--no one would go see any respectable performances in a hall with purple carpet and green chairs); its beauty makes it the perfect place to polish one's social graces. If one goes, one must be cautious. To fall asleep would just be embarrassing. To clap in between movements (hint: that's the wrong time) would be downright humiliating. This is what the program is for, so the audience can keep track and applaud at the appropriate times, just in case they don't have the piece memorized...
When it is time to clap, there is the delicate dance between the conductor or soloist and the audience. The trick is for the performer to leave the stage before the crowd loses its enthusiasm and stops clapping. That way it seems like the audience is asking the performer to please come back out and bow at least one more time while everyone is still inclined to put their hands together. This requires good timing and an excellent ear to judge the volume of the applause, two things every musician should have. How embarrassing it would be to come back...
...wrong movement of the finger could cause a person to literally lose his or her head. These comic lectures, intended to make the concert more accessible to those with a limited knowledge of classical music, greatly decreased the formal atmosphere of the concert hall; he requested that people not clap between movements for fear that it would appear that there was nepotism in the audience...
Yankee fans have come to appreciate the ways their team makes gold out of lead. At the stadium they often function as a second Yankee pitcher whenever there are two outs and the official pitcher has two strikes on a batter. They rise, roar and clap to ride that third strike in. Indian outfielder Dave Justice showed less appreciation of the Yankee fans before Game 6, by telling reporters that New Yorkers could not get more menacing "unless they showed up with Uzis." True to their spirit of murderous fun, the fans did show up with Uzis, making posters with...
Some of these distinctions are choreographed. Over the years, the King and the prince have developed a deliberately complementary partnership. Hussein plays the role of the beaming, benevolent father, while Hassan is the disciplinarian, even if it makes him unloved. Hussein will receive a delegation of functionaries, clap them on the back and tell them they've done a fine job. Then he'll phone Hassan, complain about their shortcomings and instruct his brother to sort...