THEY COULDN'T HELP IT.
Leopold Stokoweki, director of the Philadel: phia Orchestra, recently asked his audiences to desist from applause (says the "Christian Science Monitor"). "Beating the hands together has no real meaning," he said, during a recent concert when ripples of handclapping came at the end of the third movement of a Tchaikovsky symphony, "and to me it is disturbing. I do not know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in prehistoric days when strange creatures made such sounds to show their amusement and interest. Think it over, will you please, and'perhaps later in the season you will decide what you want to do. Who knows? Perhaps in this regard we may become modernists?" Aβ he I concluded the audience broke into loud applause.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 6
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129THEY COULDN'T HELP IT. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 6
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