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Some things were quite funny. There was some cute interaction with a lady from Contoocook, NH and Andre. Driving home today we actually went to Contoocook and it's a lovely town. So she put her town on the map. She was in the front row; she said "take me away," and Andre said, "after the concert." Then they got into a conversation about Contoocook. (home of the longest covered railroad bridge in the world -- and it's not very long at all)! I was disappointed in the number of people in the audience. I think I am getting the sense that a lot of the concerts have not been particularly well attended. The whole back section was empty. It must be discouraging for the orchestra to see that. Wonder if it's because of the prices? It was not a particularly responsive audience. Of course some were extremely enthusiastic but Andre was working hard to encourage people to applaud. I don't think it was necessarily that people didn't like it, but that it was an older, more quiet crowd. They applauded politely.
The sound was not great and many many people noticed it. It was when Andre talked mostly. Perhaps because the hall was not well-filled? I don't know but it was difficult at first to hear him correctly. Orchestra noticed it also -- they kept looking into the audience and squinting, like what's going on. But, we got used to it. The people around us also had been to Manchester many times and this was the first time they had noticed anything with the sound. There was a lot of talking amongst the orchestra members throughout the performance. Linda was not there. Carla was great as usual. They did My Fair Lady which made me miss Suzan. There was an abundance of balloons, knee high in the aisles. Dan and Alice Lycan were there.
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