Hey guys thiks is Brett and Ed-die.
Today we are talking about
traditions of classical music concerts
and what we think about them.
Things such as iPhones going off in the audience,
people coughing all the time,
(Brett coughing his lungs out)
dressing etiquette,
and of course
going on romantic dates with your Mr. or Mrs.
(romantic music)
Oh yeah.
And don't forget clapping in between movements.
So every time before a concert there's always an announcer saying,
"Please turn the phone off."
Half of the time someone's phone still happens to go off like
wut
(phone ringing) (mm whatcha say)
- It's not like we care.
(Actually we kinda do.)
It's really bad especially if it comes at like the end of
a really slow and quiet emotional piece like Mahler 9 ending
or something
(imitation of Mahler 9)
(phone ringing)
- So moral of the story
Turn your phones off.
*is dying*
So there's a
(uah-hHEM)
So
It's traditional
to cough in a classical concert now.
Yeah it's actually a great way to spread Ebola.
You mean
bird flu.
(???)
So the amount of times people flash the camera in the concert.
It's actually a plain hazard.
Just like when you're driving and there's a car coming at you with high beam
and then you crash.
How do you expect a violinst
to look at the conductor when you are flashing in the face.
(pchew pchew) (camera flashing noises?)
Every time I invite my friends to classical concerts
they're always like
"Uh, oh my god, do I have to dress up."
"Do I have to like suit up?"
"Do I have to wear like
a ball gown
with strapless back and-"
Girls can wear that.
But yeah.
Um.
Not guys.
Cos you know, guys can wear whatever they want.
Um it's pretty well yeah
(dramatic music)
(more dramatic music)
So wear whatever you want okay.
Just look like a normal person.
Don't feel like you're left out
because frankly we don't really care.
It feels really good when people do
clapping.
It feels really good
when people clap.
But sometimes in a classical concert there's a tradition where
you're not supposed to clap between movements.
Yeah I don't know why there is a clapping thing going on...
Don't clap between movements.
But that's just how it is
Clap when you feel like it
but just don't blame us when you don't hear anyone clapping.
Yeah you might piss a lot of people off for it.
Yeah and there's always that person
that always has to be the first person to clap after a piece.
It's like the end of the Sibelius 5th symphony
(dun)
And then someone claps apparently.
(dun) (oof)
Oh no.
And then they get
(dun)
and afterward they say
"Sorry."
Are you serious?
Yes that's true.
(dun)
Thank you.
Now you have graduated from the TwoSet classical concert masterclass.
(clapping)
Stay classy, San Diego.
Two weeks ago we played end of
we played Strauss.
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
And it has like a freaking epic tone poem
but the very end is very quiet.
And so we finished this epic tone poem after five minutes
and of course Brisbane audience in the
- Yeah mate.
- They just, no one clapped.
Coz they thought it was like the end of the first movement.
And so you just like
He put his baton down and was like
It [was] just like silence.
And then like he stood the concertmaster up.
And it was like silence.
And then people in the orchestra had to start clapping first.
*wheezing laughter*
And then
and then the audience started clapping.