"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"

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"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"

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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

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"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."

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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."

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"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."

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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."

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"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."

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"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."

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