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" All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us! "
Applause
Should
Means
" A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. "
Just
Serendipity
Luck
" Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. "
Music
Response
Emotional
" Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway. "
Mine
End
Even
" Everybody makes his path differently. "
Differently
Path
Makes
" Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. "
Everyone
Sometimes
Scary
" How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to. "
Play
You
Someone
" If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. "
Experience
Thinking
Job
" If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always. "
Right
Rules
Response
" I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes. "
Also
Always
Ear
" I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. "
Los Angeles
Been
Coming
" I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. "
Out
Find
Nobody
" It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home. "
See
How
Home
" I usually only play with very close friends. "
Play
Very
Close Friends
" Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end. "
Successful
Pieces
Family
" Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. "
Time
Hard
Arguing
" Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. "
Feel
Wish
Sometimes
" The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. "
Music
Audience
Wild
" The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together. "
Feel
Music
Stage
" We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud. "
Some
Rules
OK
" We should welcome applause whenever it comes. "
Should
Applause
Welcome
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