“Performance”
- Starts with a girl putting money in the hat: unclear expectations → turns into staged event
- The musicians moved between people → made connection with audience
- Started as a formal performance, then became more informal
The musicians
- More and more musicians enter the “stage” and more people came to listen
- Conductor mimicked the music (mimesis) – imitation
The audience
- Kids (and others) imitated conductor
- Difference between younger and older: kids with more energy (dancing and jumping), older people standing still (but still enjoying)
- Turned from passive into active listeners: moving and facial expression (major scale, upbeat, good melody)
- People connected with each other
The setting
- Square turned into a music hall – man in suit → unformal space turned into “concert hall”
- Grand scale and sound – people might also feel the sound
- The unformal space made the classical music more approachable → could move more than in a concert hall
- 1 minute: baby crying – parents hushing
- People formed in circle
Music
- The well-known tune made it more approachable
Production
- Good sound and video recording
- People documented the experience with their phone
- Do we know who are the actors and who is not.