And I don’t wear perfume. But I do read the concert programs handed out at the St. Lawrence Centre by Music Toronto. “Please don’t crumple your programs or other papers, play with stiff rattling plastic bags, zip and unzip jackets or purses, play with Velcro fasteners,” Music Toronto pleads. Symphony audiences are becoming increasingly democratized, which is good, and increasingly noisy, which is bad. Poor maestro Donald Runnicles even tried — without much success — holding up his hands to stop his Toronto Symphony listeners from applauding between the movements of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.

Source: thestar February 17, 2018 09:56 UTC