On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Christopher Wilke wrote:

> I've been told this by several different directors, too.  (Theorbo: toy 
> class.  Stringing: synthetic and gut).  Never believe them!  After every 
> concert where I've been asked to hold back, I've asked people from the 
> audience whether they could hear me.  Comments ranged from "in a few spots" 
> to "not at all." 

I think you were asking the wrong question.  Of course they could hear you.  
They just couldn't hear you as a discrete sound.  You weren't there to be 
noticed, but to be part of a musical texture.  So the conductor and the 
audience members were applying different criteria.



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