Audience Behaviour
As a member of the audience, you are an important part of each concert. The audience’s responsibility at formal concerts is to honour the efforts of the performers by providing a listening atmosphere in which the performance can be appreciated by everyone. To that end, we ask your cooperation with these few requests:
- While the performance is in progress, remain seated and quiet. (If it becomes necessary to leave the auditorium, please do so between musical selections.)
- Please stay for the whole show (less than 90 minutes in total). All performers deserve a full audience for their performance. Listening to other/better players is important to growth.
- Remove your hat, so that the people behind you can see easily. If you have outside clothes with you, remove them prior to the start of the show to restrict noise, movement and distractions.
- If very young children become restless and disrupt others' ability to listen, please take them from the auditorium until they are quiet.
- Trips to the bathroom, to get a drink, etc. should be made prior to the start of the “show” or at an intermission.
- If you enjoy what you see and hear, please clap enthusiastically; at no time is yelling nor whistling acceptable at a formal Concert.
- Please, turn pagers, cell phones and watch alarms off during performances.
Thank you for helping make the Concert enjoyable for the performers and for the audience members.
