“The moment the performance ends, they pop up.
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Audiences seem to be in autopilot mode at every concert. Just about every performance gets an immediate standing ovation.
I remember times when that wasn’t the case. Sometimes the audience would call the performer or conductor back 3 or 4 times, and they might play an encore to the seated audience.
Sometimes the audience would call the performer or conductor back 3 or 4 times, and only then stand to continue their applause.
In the early days of this pop up movement, I remember saying under my breath “Don’t stand up…Don’t stand up.”
But now the automatic standing ovation train has left the station, and so I wonder…do standing ovations mean anything these days?
