When I go to my son’s school music concerts, I’m always amazed at the concert behavior some of the audience exhibits. When a group performs, one should be quiet. When your child has finished performing and there are other musical groups to follow, you don’t leave. Yet adults either do these things or sit by while children do them. How do you instill the love of art and music, if you demonstrate to your child that the only reason you are there is because your child is in it, not because you enjoy music. Whose job is it to teach audiences proper etiquette?
I find this issue somewhat similar as a professional storyteller. How do you get audiences that generally do not go to storytelling events to react to you?
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