文档介绍：RPS Lecture 2010: Alex Ross RPS Lecture 2010: Alex Ross RPS Lecture 2010: Alex Ross RPS Lecture 2010: Alex Ross Wigmore Hall, 8 March Wigmore Hall, 8 March Wigmore Hall, 8 March Wigmore Hall, 8 March, , , , Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the C lassical Concert Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the C lassical Concert Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the C lassical Concert Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the C lassical Concert Last fall, Barack Obama hosted an evening of class ical music at the White House—once an unremarkable event, more recently something of a freak occurrenc e. Beforehand, he said, “Now, if any of you in the audience are ers to classical music, and aren’t sure when to applaud, don’t be nervous. Apparently, President Kennedy had the same problem. He and Jackie held several classi cal-music events here, and more than once he starte d applauding when he wasn’t supposed to. So the social secretary worked out a system where she’d signal him through a crack in the door to the cross-hall. Now, fortunately, I hav e Michelle to tell me when to applaud. The rest of you are on your own.” Obama was having some fun at the expense of the No -Applause Rule, a central of modern classical- music etiquette, which holds that one must refrain from clapp