CONCERT APPLAUSE

Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 3

CONCERT APPLAUSE

Audiences have been instructed of late years that it is a grievous offence to applaud, a musical work (except, perhaps, a concerto) until the last note of it has sounded, this restriction is now challenged by Me Moriz Rosenthal. Writing in a New York paper he produces evidence to show that Beethoven nut only expected applause after the individual movements of fils works, but actually relied upon such applause in order to learn the reactions of audiences to different aspects of his music, _ , Air Rosenthal also mentions a significant incident which ho witnessed himself many years, ago at a concert in Fressburg. Rubinstein was playing a rondo of Mozart's in which a certain particularly complicated passage made a severe demand upon Ins technique. Suddenly, while the music continued without pause, the audience heard loud applause and exclamations ol “ Bravo! Bravissimo! ,J '1 hose who tornod round to investigate the interruption found it coining from Franz Liszt.