On 03-12-2007, at 3:41 PM, michael hunter wrote:
As part of the annual Huntington Estate Music Festival, a
prodigy
pianist from New York was playing a Beethoven Sonata in E flat major
on a
Steinway Grand in an otherwise hushed winery cum concerthall. Very
loud and
clear, the alarm call of a Blue-faced Honeyeater repeatedly
interrupted at
critical moments, until chased away by the winemaker throwing
stones. The
pianist appeared unfazed. A regular attendee noted that this
happened every
year, but only when piano movements in E flat major were playing.(?)
Am I the only one who finds this reprehensible? Chucking rocks at a
poor bird distressed by the event seems to me to only double the
damage the event is doing to the animal. I think that if you want to
put on a music event in the outdoors, I expect that you just have to
put up with nature not "co-operating". If they can't handle that, the
organisers should try a concert hall.
scot
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