Went to the symphony tonight. As usual, the San Antonio Symphony was superb, but the audience was less so. The first piece was Mozart's Serenade No. 7 in D Major K.250 (more commonly known as the Haffner Serenade). Dmitry Sitkovetsky was the guest conductor and violin soloist, and gave a brilliant performance. The upside to this evening's performance is that it appeared that there were quite a few new attendees at the symphony. This is great because it means the symphony is reaching more people; however, it has it's downside.
The Haffner Serenade has eight movements to it. It is customary to not applaud until the entire piece is performed. You would think that, after observing other people around you NOT applauding when a movement finished, it would dawn on you that maybe you shouldn't be banging your hands together... but no, the new attendees were so locked in their own little worlds that it never occurred to them to look around and observe that over half the audience was sitting quietly and looking at them strangely, too polite to say, "Hey, Goober! Knock it the hell off!"
I love San Antonio, but it would be nice if the clueless morons who live here would clean the cowshit out of their eyes now and then, pay attention, and stop embarrassing the rest of us.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. (h/t, Dennis Miller)
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