What is the classification of VIP, first class, second class and third class tickets for concerts (symphonies)? How does it affect the enjoyment of the music?

VIP tickets are located in the center of the front row of seats, where the sound is more even and balanced

First class tickets are usually located behind and to the left and right of the VIP tickets, and first class tickets on the left and right sides of the seats have a somewhat skewed sound, but allow the audience to experience the performance of the individual players from a close distance

Other types of tickets follow the same pattern.

No matter which type of ticket, as long as the audience will not make a lot of noise (except when applauding and Chinese drama), listening to live concerts is still much better than listening to recordings. Because live concerts can fully demonstrate the spatial art of music and are very atmospheric.

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How to Listen to Live Concerts

Written by Braveheart

As an industrial product of modern civilization, the history of recordings is just one hundred years old, and before that the way of transmission of the human musical civilization, apart from sheet music, mainly relied on live performances of this kind of live musical expression. For thousands of years, live listening has been the only way for ancient people to get the feeling of music, and even today, when the record industry is extremely developed, live performance is still calling thousands of music lovers to enter concert halls and dance theaters with her living kindness and warmth.

As a new contact with European classical music lovers, the charm of live performance in our minds must be full of reverie and temptation, when we are about to hold an incomparable pious excitement into the Philharmonic Hall of worship music, in order to make us from the upcoming hear the "sound" in the experience, feel the more In order for us to experience and feel more happiness from the "sound" we are about to hear, I am afraid that some of the following rules of thumb and precautions must be understood by each of our friends who have just come into contact with classical music.

Concert repertoire selection

In big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, there are numerous concert halls, and almost every day there are concerts, for example, the Beijing Concert Hall, which at the end of the year can be filled with performances for the next year. We must use our limited funds and limited time to select the most suitable venues for our own listening from the vast array of performances, and there are two main bases for this:

One is to choose the repertoire that we are y interested in and enjoy listening to, so that even if the group's own playing skills are not as good as they could be, the music itself will still be able to bring the emotion that we deserve. For those who are indifferent to what they hear on the record, no matter how much others say, it's still someone else's feeling, and if the band's performance is poor, I'm afraid that the great music will never come back to your mind!

The second is to focus on some of the internationally renowned music groups, famous music artists to visit China to perform, this kind of performance is unattainable, in China is often once in decades. In particular, some of the old masters of the arts, their visit to China is likely to be the first and last performance, miss a likely to regret a lifetime. For example, cello virtuoso Rostropovich and conductor Seiji Ozawa's exchange performance at the Century Theatre in Beijing in the fall of 2000 brought to our Chinese Philharmonic audience not only the touching music, but also the charisma of the musical personalities reflected in them.

Pre-performance preparations

If you are familiar with the repertoire you are about to hear, or even have several classic recordings at hand, it is best to avoid listening to these wonderful recordings at this point, so as not to create too many preconceived barriers within yourself that could interfere with your ability to concentrate on what you are hearing live. The overall level of the Chinese Symphony Orchestra is the highest among the domestic music groups, but often some of my friends show great disappointment in their live performances, and I'm afraid that the main reason is that we have heard too many excellent, classic recordings of famous foreign orchestras, and the more we listen to other people's recordings, the more we understand them, and the more the gap between the National Symphony Orchestra's live performances becomes more obvious, and the more disappointing it is.

If you're not familiar with the repertoire you're about to hear, then you'll want to collect as much relevant information as possible, and it's best to find a recording that you can listen to first, so that you won't be too overwhelmed and confused when you hear it live. There are many sources of information, including libraries, the Internet, and, of course, friends who like music.

Concert hall notes

In the general impression, listening to the symphony is to be suited and booted, in fact, in China need not be, after all, Western-style clothes are not our traditional ceremonial clothing, as long as the clean and neat, unkempt, star-rated hotel lobbies are allowed to enter the dress, concert halls are able to accept. Some classical musicians performance dress fancy jaw-dropping, such as cellist Maisky, violinist Kennedy and others, their performance dress has always been very personalized. Casual, comfortable and casual is not only the trend of modern clothing, but should also be the inevitable trend of the concert hall dress code. Of course, there are specific concerts with specific dress codes that must be adhered to.

On the day of the show, be sure to get near the concert hall as early as possible and make sure to enter early. There are many advantages to entering early, you can calm your mind and wait for the music to shower you with ease, you can have enough time to read the detailed descriptions of the music, orchestra and conductor on the program list, avoiding the haste of flipping through it in the course of the performance, etc.

This is the most important thing that you can do to make sure that you get to the concert as early as possible. Of course, most importantly, it is also the minimum respect for the performing groups and artists. Nowadays, many concert halls refuse to let latecomers enter in the middle of a movement, and even then, the short break between movements and the darkened auditorium are not only troublesome to find a seat, but also attract a blank stare and displeasure because of the effect of taking a seat on others.

The shrill ringing of cell phones and pagers in the concert hall is absolutely frightening, especially during the performance. In order to avoid the appearance of this extremely unpleasant sound, and to avoid incurring the "hate" of the surrounding crowd, you'd better turn them off before entering the concert hall. If you have to wait for an important call, make sure you set it to vibrate. Try to avoid bringing in objects that make noise, such as plastic bags, bottles, shopping bags, etc. There are free storage for these small items in the entrance halls of concert halls.

Beijing Poly Theater has now banned children under one meter two in height, which is a brilliant move! According to scientific evidence, the height of one meter two children generally do not have emotional control, that is to say, they are in the concert hall is very difficult to maintain a long time in a quiet state listening to music, they can not help but "action" consciousness not only affects the parents of the appreciation of the mood, but also disrupt the surrounding audience listening environment. Therefore, in addition to some special concerts for children, try to avoid carrying those who do not yet have emotional control of the child to the concert hall, or not only the child is difficult, parents, neighboring audience, and even the conductor, they will be affected by different degrees of influence and interference.

Listening in a few points of attention

The points mentioned above are all in the service of better access to the best listening state. And when we finally hear the wonderful moving fairy music, wordless moving, we have to pay attention to those problems?

The first and foremost point is that you can't applaud or applaud indiscriminately. It is said that hundreds of years ago, when Western artists performed symphony, the audience can applaud between the movements, and encountered applause, applause too warm, the conductor will also just played the movement improvisation repeat to the audience. However, hundreds of years down the line, today's custom has been greatly changed, between the movements do not applaud has become a customary etiquette, between the movements to keep quiet not only to ensure that a grand work of holistic, but also to ensure that we appreciate the continuity of thought. Therefore, no matter how exciting the previous movement is, we can only save all our heartfelt gratitude for the end of the piece and then release it.

If you don't know much about the work you're playing, and you want to know when the song ends and when to applaud, there's a simple way to judge: before the performance, use some time to familiarize yourself with the program, understand the number of movements of the work, and when you perform, count the chapters with your heart, and in general, between chapters the conductor on the stage, the performers have a simple rest and recuperation, and the audience has some adjustments in their posture, and coughing and so on, all of them. After the end of the performance, the conductor will generally turn around and bow to thank the curtain, at this time you can indulge in applause, applause to express their gratitude to the artists. The reason you were told to count the movements by heart was to prevent you from blindly following some uninvolved people who were clapping, clamoring, and adding to the chaos between movements.

I have seen jokes in Beijing several times because of too much applause between movements. Once is the 2000 Beijing International Music Festival opening ceremony, because a large part of the audience to enjoy the government hospitality tickets, the results of Sarah Zhang's Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, the first movement has just ended, the whole audience actually broke out in thunderous applause, warm applause alarmed outside the venue is responsible for the offering of flowers to the young lady, so she hurriedly hold flowers into the stage to offer flowers, the next scene is really embarrassing for the Chinese people. The ensuing scene was really embarrassing for the Chinese. Another time is in the Tsinghua University auditorium, Brahms' violin concerto first movement just finished, the scene is also applauded like thunder, a few female students are also heard, ran on stage to offer flowers.

The solution to the problem of blind applause, the rest is to avoid the movement between the head to head, looking through the program, drinking water, stoned and other harassing "small actions", no matter what you do "small actions", you have to first think about your actions! Whether it will affect the surrounding people, after all, this is not the home of a person listening to the stereo in the environment ah!

Many classic recordings are made by the most prestigious orchestras, the most outstanding conductors, the best recording venues, the best equipment, the most outstanding recording artists to work together, coupled with careful post-production, the kind of "heavenly disc" level of auditory performance is far stronger than an ordinary domestic live performances, if we are in an acoustic conditions are not satisfactory, the sound of the world's most important music, the sound of the world's most important music. If we are listening to an orchestra of less than excellent quality in a concert hall with unsatisfactory acoustics, it is not only unfair, but it also has no positive significance if we can't forget the excitement of those "celestial albums" in our minds and make all kinds of comparisons between them frequently. We are here to listen to live "real" music, not to look for gaps and deficiencies, let alone to nitpick (which, of course, inevitably exist). The positive and wise thing to do is to put aside all preconceived notions and actively immerse yourself in the music you hear live, to feel the music itself, and to capture those moments that shock us and move us, which is the real purpose of listening to live music for the average musician, and only then can you afford to pay for your hard-earned money and your precious time!

The end of the song

A regular orchestra in the regular season performance, the official repertoire after the end of the general is not an encore (encore repertoire), and those exchanges, visits to the nature of the performance, because of the rare, rare to listen to the encore is always inevitable, and every time, the orchestra and the conductor will make every effort to dedicate their best, the most wonderful moving moment, and their encore performance, and their performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance, and the performance. Moment, and their encore performance, encore repertoire of how much depends largely on the audience applause, applause of the degree of enthusiasm, if you do like their performance, may wish to applaud the drums a little more fierce, a little more enthusiastic.

Out of courtesy, as long as the orchestra chief (sitting on the first violin in front of the one) did not get up to leave the stage, it is best that we do not rush to get up to leave the audience, who came a long way to perform for you, we should not be in a hurry to rush a few minutes of the journey, right!

When you have to leave the show after being mesmerized by the music, don't forget what you left on your seat and what you deposited at the door.

If you are willing, after listening to the concert, you may wish to communicate with some of your music-loving friends to exchange your own listening experience, or write down some of the heartfelt touches, so that more friends can be described through you, and indirectly feel those unforgettable moments of the music of a lifetime, "solo music, not as much as the crowd," which is a wonderful thing! This is also a very wonderful thing!