Slog - Comments on Hell Hath No Fury Like the Seattle Symphony's Pacific Northwest Community Orchestra Scorned

Comment by also

also — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:34 -0800

Because they didn't like the music?

Comment by bma

bma — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:04:33 -0800

Because they didn't come to hear a musical performance?

Comment by PJ

PJ — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:07:00 -0800

So why not ruin it for everyone else!

Comment by dks

dks — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:13:12 -0800

@2: I would agree with you except that the performance was listed on the program, so the people that came knew they were coming to hear a musical program.

Comment by dks

dks — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:13:17 -0800

@2: I would agree with you except that the performance was listed on the program, so the people that came knew they were coming to hear a musical program.

Comment by Aislinn

Aislinn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:14:22 -0800

Maybe because Ode to Joy is BORING and everyone has heard it a million times? If they wanted to be noticed, they should should have played a piece that commands attention.

Comment by ADW

ADW — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:17:05 -0800

Because the majority of folks in attendance were huge fucking hypocrites.

Comment by jerry falls well

jerry falls well — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:23:15 -0800

Cuz they were dave matthews fans and realized you werent the dave.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:25:09 -0800

an american audience (who had already attended a 2-hour event that was, in all likelyhood due to the doddering, pointless presence of archbiship tutu, boring)betrayed an ignorance of classical music concert etiquette? i'm SHOCKED!

blame the programmers. you should have played first & then packed it up.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:30:21 -0800

#6 they should have layed some Shostakovich.

Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER

UNPAID BLOGGER — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:43:45 -0800

Judging from the ferocity and passion exhibited in this letter, I'm simply shocked they didn't have the audience's rapt attention.

Comment by Fuck All Y'All, It Fucking Rocked

Fuck All Y'All, It Fucking Rocked — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:43:56 -0800

Anyone else actually fucking there? 'Cause I was, and I sat there with my free box lunch in my lap, amidst a noisy crowd, in the venue with the worst goddamn acoustics ever...and had a truly transcendent musical experience. And it was largely *because* I wasn't sitting in a dead-quiet symphony hall surrounded by dead-quiet, nearly-dead white people. I had never seen a classical performance in such a strange context, and it was great.

So to the I, Anonymous poster: you guys fucking wr0cked the house! I appreciated the hell out of the performance you gave and stood up on my chair clapping and screaming my head off like it was an M's game when you finished.

My sincere thanks for the experience -- you touched me.

Comment by Katelyn

Katelyn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:55:40 -0800

Any Protestant church-goer (even if you only went as a kid) knows that when the music plays, it's time to head out. We've all been well-trained. And it's just not good programming to put a massive musical piece at the END of the night, when people are tired -- stick it in the middle somewhere.

Comment by Jiberish

Jiberish — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:23:57 -0800

after last friday's shindig when i tried to get past a women she commented that "you think people would be more compassionate". as if seattle wasn't passive aggressive enough.

Comment by Breklor

Breklor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:36:51 -0800

Bah, nobody has any respect for live music anymore. It's as though getting it pumped into our heads 18 hours a day through our fucking iPods has made music just another valueless commodity, like water.

Comment by Aislinn

Aislinn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:39:46 -0800

@10: Good call.

Comment by stan

stan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:50:42 -0800

Because Ode To Joy is a recessional?

Comment by Cascadian

Cascadian — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:09:15 -0800

@6: The Ode to Joy is one of the best works of music ever created, and I say that as someone with tastes that run more to old school punk than classical. Any live performance of the Ode to Joy, even one with a too-large chorus fighting bad acoustics, deserves a listen. The people who left early are cretins worthy of contempt.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:24:31 -0800

@18,

It is? That's news to me. I've always found it boring. Give me any of Beethoven's other symphonies, especially his 7th.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:10:05 -0800

They'd have stayed if it were a hymn.

Comment by Ramdu

Ramdu — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:28:33 -0800

Takes a lot of time to push away the nonsense

Take my compassion...push it as far as it goes

My interest level is dropping, my interest level is dropping

I've heard all I want to, I don't want to hear any more

Comment by RHETT ORACLE

RHETT ORACLE — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:14:11 -0800

Yeah - Beethoven is so 19th century - what with "F�r Elise" crackling out of half the world's cellphones as an aural irritant that puts Stravinsky to shame. Of course, the people who got up and left have that right - just as they have the right to text message at the movies.

And clearly to not understand the gravitas, background of "The Ode to Joy" is just 21st century dumbed-down pathetic. What piece was played at the fall of the Berlin Wall? Not Dave Matthews.

Kudos to the musicians and singers who did show up and did perform. Music even hath charms to soothe the blogger's breast.