Encore!

Main Entry: en·core
Etymology: French, still, again: a demand for repetition or reappearance made by an audience; also: a reappearance or additional performance in response to such a demand

Origins of the encore date back to the early 17th century in Italy. It has been said that the composition: “Podere di pillore” by Guisseppe Dellamonteverdi aroused the first encore. The movement so enthralled the audience that they demanded more. Ultimately by threatening to burn down the opera house (the Teatro Alla Veronazoni). Guisseppe Dellamonteverdi complied and upon the conclusion of his rendition of “Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Capistrano, the audience burned down the opera house anyway.

Musical archaeologist, Lester Estingsworth, noted: “With the vigor of fire that the piece brought to their souls through the music they had just experienced, the audience at the Teatro Alla Veronazoni reciprocated in the only fashion which could compare.”

Throughout the ages the Encore has persevered to our day. In fact, the act of holding up a lit lighter in a dark auditorium is homage to the scorched Teatro Alla Veronazoni. But the true “vigor of fire” that incited the 17th century Italians has all but disappeared. Now the lackluster applause and smell of butane is merely a plea for the egocentric musicians to provide entertainment equal to the full ticket price.

Forced encores, planned encores, first encore, second encore…and so on. These strip away the opportunity for the audience to truly relate their feelings of the performance.

ATTENTION: MUSICIANS, BANDS AND OTHER EGOTISICAL BALLOONHEADS…
In the vein of the old rule; “only speak whence spoken to.” Drop your pre-contrived scheme of inflating your self-esteem. We the audience have already waited through 2 performances and yet you still make us wait another hour AFTER all your equipment is set up. Then for the next 45 minutes you don’t play any of your hit songs. Instead it’s “a new song we’re working on” or it’s your enthralling personal disposition of life soliloquy that lasts the length of 3 songs. Then you have the nerve of leaving the stage, pretending to be done for the night, causing grief, turmoil and feelings of being short-changed. Then, after causing your audience much mental distress for 10 solid minutes, you graciously bestow your presence upon the spectators and finally play the songs that they came to hear.

If we want an encore…WE WILL TELL YOU!

You are trampling upon the ruins of the Teatro Alla Veronazoni!