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Dolphin Girl: Patron Saint of Incoherent Ramblings; Keeper of Flutes and Singing Watches Started conversation Jun 26, 1999
You missed out the audience!! The lot who sit there coughing ALL the way through and start to clap halfway through a movement!
Nice article though. 
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John of Acklam Posted Jul 18, 1999
This is a bit unfair on audiences. Most of them don't clap till the end of the first movement, thenwhen they realise it wasn't the end don't clap again until 25 seconds after the end of the last movement.
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zathras Posted Apr 26, 2000
Amazingly enough, some audience members actually figure out when to clap by watching the conductor. Once he drops his arms, clap away.
Of course, those audience members are usually people who have performed in orchestras themselves.
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