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The author, Benjamin Britten, a leading composer of modern operas, must have had a wonderful time writing this. The complete originality of the first act either charms or annoys the listener, depending on his own responsiveness. The children appear as awful amateurs who have only enthusiasm. And when conductor Norman...
Many a listener, nerves frayed by the dissonances and the jerky jazzy rhythms he had just heard, sourly agreed. But time has proved audience and conductor wrong. Nobody has ever accused Aaron Copland of murder, even murder of harmony and counterpoint, and this week he reached his soth birthday the...
Some companies manufacture a set that has amplifiers on both ears, but still only one mike, thus acting like one ear transmitting sounds to both auditory lobes in the brain. Under this system, all sounds seem to come from the same place and the listener cannot tell where to direct...
"The disadvantages of nonaural hearing become apparent in a lecture hall or cocktail lounge," explained Hirsh. "The listener never knows who is speaking." Using this new aid, sounds from the right will be perceived a fraction of a second earlier in the right unit than in the left, enabling the...
Doing Poorly. Once when Wells, safe in wealth and fame, was talking about his early poverty, a listener reminded him that at least he had never been reduced to the twin extremes of irremediable hunger and absolute homelessness. This was rather like reproaching a man who had lost both arms...