When performers didn't acknowledge the applause, I kept thinking the clappers might get the hint. But they never did in the Beethoven, and interstitial applause finally petered out only halfway ...

If you’ve ever attended a classical concert, you’ve probably experienced that awkward, hesitant half-clapping that sometimes occurs at the end of a symphonic movement: The music stops, the hall falls ...

The orchestra’s formal dress, the way it tunes. How the conductor bows, and all that walking on and off the stage. The typical classical music concert can seem full of arcane rituals that set it apart ...

Do you remember the first time you went to a classical concert? And how you viewed its peculiar rituals and formalities? Nobody talks during the music, and even an overly loud whisper can be you ...

I was listening to Yo-Yo Maand Chicago Symphony Orchestra members perform a chamber concert in Pilsen recently, and the audience applauded between movements of a Brahms Quintet, and I thought: This ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend and I attended a prerecorded broadcast of a live opera performance, and during the applause segment, we began quietly discussing aspects of the performance. At the time, ...

Not since 2009 when the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performed here, has a pair of orchestral concerts at the Esplanade been so keenly anticipated. Tickets for the London Symphony Orchestra's ...