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Accolade Granted. Radio-trained Ed Murrow misses the flexibility of his old medium, where "with the help of a listener's imagination you can tell a story with 200 words in 45 seconds. The same story, translated to TV, may take ten minutes to create the same impact." But...
The least satisfying part of the program was Mozart's Symphonic Concertante for Wind Quartet and small orchestra, a graceful work which an orchestra cannot get across to the listener unless it plays with precision and delicacy. Heaviness in the string section and poor balance between soloists and orchestra resulted...
"Music is different from the other arts because it moves in time," G. Wallace Woodworth '24, Professor of Music, believes. "Sounds pass the listener with such rapidity that the only way to really become familiar with a piece of music is to hear it over and over again."
He plays the works over the air and cuts in on the performance wherever he feel an important point in the music's development has been reached. He then points out exactly what has happened so that the listener gets an accurate picture of what the composer and performers are...
Previously he had spoken of the attributes of the gifted listener. Quoting Santayana, he warned; "though music were the most abstract of arts, it serves the dumbest of emotions." People respond to music from a "primal and almost brutish level," which acts as a reflection of their "physical life of...