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Brava to Waynesworld friend and local oboist supreme Lise Glaser on her concerto performance with the Tulsa Symphony on Saturday.
We're lucky to have her in this town.
The audience almost also earned my applause, but there they were clapping again in the middle of the Mendelssohn.
"Ooooo, I know that one. Me like it." Clap, clap, clap.
The anti-applause grumblers in the audience, and I increasingly see myself in that class, are getting less and less tolerant of inter-movement applause.
Saturday night, the older man a few rows behind me and to my left muttered "Dummy" loud enough for the clapping man three rows up to hear.
I wonder if he was the same old man whose cell phone was buzzing throughout one of the earlier pieces.
The applause is less irritating. No one came on stage and told the audience to turn off their hands before the show.
Here's a little taste of the Italian symphony. Feel free to clap along.
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