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Old 06-27-2007, 08:14 AM   #1
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Default Warmup bands or double bill?
I really hate it when a first-set performance is treated as a warmup band. And I feel like that's the way Peggy Lee was treated by latecomers tonight at the Cultch where she performed the first set and the Umo Jazz Orchestra did the second set. Kate Hammett-Vaughan was hosting the show and warned the audience that parts of the first set were going to be very soft and that even a rattling candy wrapper would meld into the music, so get your candy ready and turn off anything that would beep, vibrate, or ring. Fine & dandy advice for those of us who arrived on time to be seated for the pre-show chat! but the cacaphony from the balconies throughout Peggy's performance - squeaking doors, feet pounding like so many bass drums, chattering... as an audience member on the main floor, I found it very distracting. It didn't seem to phase Peggy but I still think it was not very respectful.

Live theatre often has a rule that noone may enter the theatre during a performance. I also know that the nature of the jazz festival requires a certain amount of drop-in/drop-out due to events overlapping and with commute times between venues. Plus some music is enhanced by the unplanned ambience. (It was very effective for a John Newberry performance at the Scotia Dance Centre a while back.) But I'm wondering if there wouldn't be times when the nature of the performance should be considered and the usual nonchalant arrival protocol be suspended when it's foreseen that the unavoidable extra clunking would have a negative effect on the performance?
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Old 06-27-2007, 04:07 PM   #2
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This has been driving me NUTS at the Centre the past 3 nights. Not only the traffic up & down the aisles, which has been ridiculous during the opening sets - through entire shows, there seemed to be a buzz of people whispering - one guy Monday night with a REALLY loud, booming voice didn't even bother to whisper, & if I could've reached him I might've strangled him - candy-wrappers crackling, seats springing back with a 'thunk' as people got up to leave. I thought it was not only extremely rude to the audience, but incredibly disrespectful to the musicians on stage. I'd be interested to know how the musicians feel about this? Do they notice? I've been to other shows (the ballet, I think, & maybe theatre performances?) where if you weren't in your seat when it started, you didn't get in till intermission. That would've left me in the lobby Sunday night & I would've missed Christine Jensen - my Gastown shift didn't end till 7:30 - but I still think it might be a good idea.
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Old 06-27-2007, 08:31 PM   #3
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I didn't know people are eating that much candy at concerts.
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Old 06-28-2007, 07:47 AM   #4
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Old 06-29-2007, 04:16 PM   #6
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Show up on time or wait in the lobby until a break in the music! Simple.
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