“The most important thing for me is not the quantity of people who come but how interested they are. MONTREAL, Quebec (LifeSiteNews) The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) has cancelled the contracts of young Russian piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev as a result of the Russian/Ukraine conflict. Trifonov says that while he’s grateful for a big crowd, he’s even more grateful for an attentive audience. “ classical music audience is a dedicated one, people who listen to classical music do so intentionally,” reflects Trifonov. He is commonly viewed as a great successor of the Russian piano school because of the depth. Just as Trifonov prepares for the physical challenges of symphonic performance, so must audiences on their way to a holiday concert or a performance of the Nutcracker this winter must train not to twitch, cough, text, or tweet for hours at a time-a challenge for the hyper-connected generation in particular. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. In a classical music performance, a movement can last up to ten times the length of a pop song.
īut perhaps it has something to do with our dwindling attention span, too. Formality still reigns at the symphony with designated moments for applauding and clearing one’s throat, a far cry from the exuberant crowds in classical music performances a century ago. In the 1890s, screaming audiences stood on chairs for composer Richard Wagner and festooned concert halls with homemade fan banners, as cultural historian Joseph Horowitz describes in his book Moral Fire. MONTREAL, Quebec ( LifeSiteNews) The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) has cancelled the contracts of young Russian piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev as a result of the Russian/Ukraine conflict. Some conjecture that classical music’s waning popularity is related to its perceived elitism and anachronistic rules.
0 kommentar(er)
