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...anything in praise of the Ninth would be impossible without dragging out our hackneyed friend, the Hollywood adjective. Beethoven, already deaf but still in his prime, planned this symphony on a scale that transcends in power and breadth of conception anything written in this form before or since, but yet cast it all in good sonata form. He might be said to have transcended mere structure to have given structure its highest significance. As a matter of fact, when faced with the originality of the ideas in the Ninth and the splendor of their execution, discussions of "form" tend...
Masterminding W9XBK's school was one of the strangest geniuses ever to wear the Navy's gold braid: gaunt, towering, post-deaf Lieut, (j.g.) William Crawford Eddy, U.S.N. Retired, who went from NBC's Manhattan television studio to build and operate W9XBK for Balaban & Katz in the fall...
Bill Eddy read lips to pass his physical examination at Annapolis, got the highest I.Q. rating ever recorded there. He served ten years as a submarine commander before the Navy discovered in 1934 how deaf he was. To hide his deafness, he had invented a submarine detector that put sound on a dial where he could see it; now it is standard Navy equipment...
...Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify Latin American dance music. Its earmark is a varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
...Granville Bantock, bearded, British, 73-year-old composer, laid hands on a sacred* song: the Internationale. Sir Granville thought the Internationale needed "more movement," made a few slight changes. To make the song more suitable "for English choirs and for people to sing," Sir Granville's elderly, deaf wife, Lady Helen, wrote new words. Instead of Arise, ye starvelings from your slumbers; Arise, ye criminals of want (Russia's official English translation), Lady Helen's verses began Awake, O sleepers from your dreaming; Uplift, uplift your longing eyes...