Workshop: L’école de la claque with Bill Dietz

In this workshop, join composer and writer Bill Dietz to discover how the behavioral conventions of audiences—from the concert hall to the political rally—inform and construct meaning in the public sphere. Tracing the outlines of a critical history of music reception from the 19th century tradition of the claque (professional applauders paid by concert institutions throughout Europe) to the modernist prohibition of applause in early twentieth century Vienna, through to contemporary examples of paid audience responses, Dietz invites participants to cheer and boo their way through a history of concert publicness.

This event is free of charge, but please RSVP.

Questions about this event? Email us at public.programs@brooklynmuseum.org.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition David Levine: Some of the People, All of the Time and in partnership with the Onassis Cultural Center New York’s Birds: A Festival Inspired by Aristophanes.