A CONCERTGOER'S LESSON
A note on Stokowski's way with audiences has reminded an American reader of the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" of an elaborate lesson in manners which he once gave his Philadelphia flock. At the last concert of the season, those members of the audience who arrived punctually were disconcerted to find the platform empty. Then two members of the orchestra came in with the conductor. They played the first bars of the symphony, and gradually more musicians drifted; in, in twos and threes, with a good deal of unnecessary stumbling, coughing, and rattling of instruments. Towards the end of the first movement the orchestra was complete. The process was reversed during the last item of the concert. Gradually the orchestra dwindled, each exit being made with as much clumsiness and fuss as possible. Finally,' Stokowski was left alone with a bewildered and furious audience. ' His popularity survived. The orchestra's next concert season was notable for the punctuality and quietness of the audiences.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 4
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165A CONCERTGOER'S LESSON Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 4
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