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With Pavarotti this is a conscious intention. He senses his voice traveling along a separate thread to each member of the audience, and he depends desperately on the response that returns along that thread. "Applause is our oxygen." he says, and the more vociferous, even hysterical, the better. He feels...
The main legions of portable fans are mostly young and predominantly-but not always -black or hispanic. They do not quite add up to a subculture, but they may represent the rise of a new species of radio fan. Their ears are tuned in constantly to what they call the...
Some imperfections remain. Cooder, crazy about the sound, nevertheless reports that the digital console was mechanically ornery. Moreover, digital's full potential is muffled because recordings must still be transferred to conventional analog records. Playback equipment is a way down the road-maybe five years, maybe a little longer...
"Our audience doesn't run on a college schedule," Jacobson said. Listener response indicates jazz listeners are not Harvard students, but most often people from Berklee College of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, and other people in the community, Jacobson added.
Nor does Farrell's style help much. Like some windy raconteur at the bar of the Raffles Hotel, he is diffuse and banal, occasionally clutching at his listener's elbow with a moralizing aside. His metaphorical flights can plummet ludicrously, as when he compares the cross section of...