At 01:50 PM 5/4/2006 -0500, Conrad wrote: >Curtain??? Wazzat??? Around here, if I'm doing a touchup, I'm the halftime >show that nobody would notice if there were a wardrobe malfunction. It's >kinda like tuning unisons INSIDE of a vacuum cleaner. Sucks, but it's got >to be done. All you can do is the best you can do in the din. Curtain? Curtain?? It would ruin the ambience. They chatter while I'm touching up, then they clap when I finish. I make a flourish (probably looks really dorky) as I walk off, they laugh. Every time. I really don't see why I would want to hide from these people. All the concert-goers know me by sight after awhile. You couldn't buy advertising like that. (and I don't buy any advertising.) I go up if I hear anything first half which I don't like or feel dubious about (maybe 1/3 of the concerts). Rarely I check it over and touch nothing, sometimes just one, sometimes I'm tweaking a bunch. Solo or chamber music or jazz -- I don't triage by program type, except that sometimes if it looks like it's going to be a rock concert, I may not stay for it. Concerti one rarely gets a chance to touch up, because there's usually only one on the program. (What you hear is what you get ...) Susan
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