演奏直後，拍手，ブラボーで名演を台無しにする悪人

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic のLondon residency が盛り上がりを見せたなかで，せっかくの名演奏がBravoないしBravi でぶち壊されたことがイギリス The Guardian 紙で厳しく糾弾されています．

Royal Restival Hall　で行われた演奏会でMahler の第3番交響曲が華麗に終わった途端に，いきなり Bravi（Bravoの複数形）が叫ばれて，名演が一挙に ruin されたというのです．

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic の最終夜で起こったことだそうですが，　　　　It's music that ends with a huge final chord, a moment of D major apotheosis that's seemingly drawn out into the infinite. The silence afterwards was a chance to bask in the afterglow of the symphony's huge, cosmic architecture and the Berlin Philharmonic's equally cosmic sound.　

But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure – before any of us, including the orchestra, had the chance to come down to earth again. There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout.

there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, "bravi", as if to show the rest of the audience, and Rattle and the players too, that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives,

と音楽に対する暴力だとたいへんな怒りようです．こうした人物には罰金を課して，今後の来場を入場停止処分で防ぐべきだと息巻いています．　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　この記事全体がその怒りで埋められていますが，私も，最近，サントリーホールでこうした間髪を入れないBravoに悩まされている1人として，この記事を是非ご紹介したいと思いました．

このThe Guardian の記事はアメリカでも反響があり，Should badly behaving audience members be fined?　というタイトルの記事を掲載し，London の出来事と記事の内容を詳細に伝えて，こうした聴衆には罰金を課すべきか？という POLL をとっています．

ごく初期のPoll を紹介しますと，

Yes: The audience has a duty to remain silent. Anything less is selfish. 47.73% (21 votes)

 

Sometimes: But the early clapper/shouter should be banned. 29.55% (13 votes)

 

No way: I paid for my seat, so I should be able to make as much noise as I want. 22.73% (10 votes)

と個人主義を反映したモノになっています．　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　しかし，静かにすべきだという意見が多いようですから，サントリーホールでも，是非，開演前のアナウンスで注意を喚起して欲しいと思います．

  

Rattled: how to ruin a classical music concert

The idiot who shouted 'bravi' at Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic shattered the rapture that follows a great rendition．

　　　　　　　　　　　　'Radiant' ... Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic. Photograph: Mark Allan

And so, having taken the audience to the heights of late-romantic bliss with the gigantic hymn of love and compassion in the finale of Mahler's Third Symphony, Simon Rattle's London residency with the Berlin Philharmonic came to its radiant conclusion last night. It's music that ends with a huge final chord, a moment of D major apotheosis that's seemingly drawn out into the infinite. The silence afterwards was a chance to bask in the afterglow of the symphony's huge, cosmic architecture and the Berlin Philharmonic's equally cosmic sound.

But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure – before any of us, including the orchestra, had the chance to come down to earth again. There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout.

And then there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, "bravi", as if to show the rest of the audience, and Rattle and the players too, that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives, rather than using the "bravo" that anyone else in this country would recognise or employ. There should be fines for this sort of thing (as well as for the jewellery-rattlers that Charlotte Higgins had to put up with in seat S62 at the Barbican) – sanctions that mean you forfeit your right to hear Mahler or Bruckner in public again until you learn that it's not big and it's not clever.

In fact, it's musical hooliganism that's psychopathic, narcissistic and destructive. We came to hear Mahler and the BPO last night, mate, not a solo spot from somebody who wants to show us all how much cleverer he is than us because he knows when the music's finished. Somebody there last night knows who it was, surely (as well as whoever's mobile phone it was that went off twice in the earlier movements). Over to you.

 

Should badly behaving audience members be fined?

February 24, 2011 | < font-size: 130%"> 1:48 pm

Los Angels Times 

We all know him. The early clapper. There seems to be one at every concert. Just as the music ends, or indeed sometimes even before the final note is sounded, inevitably, someone dives in like an overexcited seal and ruins the mood. It's a pet peeve of many a fan of classical music.

Tom Service, a music writer for the Guardian has his panties in a bunch about another concert-going archetype that ruined his post-Berlin Phil Mahler 3 cuddle: the premature "Bravi!" shouter. 

In Service's words, "There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout. And then there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, 'bravi', as if to show [everyone] that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives ..." 

Service goes on to suggest that these people should be fined.

The irony of all this is, of course, that audience behavior has improved immeasurably since we've had access to recorded music. So now hearing a pristine version seems to have made us hyper-sensitive to every sniffle, cough or crinkle.

In Service's defense, an ill-timed shout or clap can immediately dissipate the energy an ensemble has spent the last 90 minutes creating.  On the other hand, part of that energy was created by experiencing the music along with 2,500 other people -- program shuffling, texting and, yes, shouting, notwithstanding.

What's the worst audience behavior you've encountered and how much are you willing to put up with in exchange for the privilege of hearing live music?  How do Los Angeles audiences compare with other cities'?

Let us know in the comments section and take our poll.