My eldest, is a serious bassoonist and offers some helpful tips, from a musician's pov on what audience members should and should not do during an orchestra concert.

In my limited experience as a performer over the years, I've come to notice that audiences are VERY supportive of any kind of musical activity, even if they have no musical back-ground themselves. To those people I would like to give a big-warm thank you! Without people like you, musicians would die off, and disappear from existence.

Though, without being too persnickety or picky, and I don't really know how to put this, but sometimes I feel that the great support that musicians feel, isn't sometimes misdirected? ...more