Word: aural
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seth Carlin '69, pianist, played a superbly controlled rendition of the emotion-packed Sonata in G. Both tended towards exaggerated body movements, Buswell panting and rising to his toes with crescendos, and Carlin bouncing his hands all over the keyboard, but the visual did not adversely affect the aural. The piece is prone to cloying over-interpretation, but Buswell and Carlin kept their music disciplined and precise with beautiful results...
...sash at her waist, she knots it around her throat, pulls it tight, then falls to the ground in a lifeless swoon, her hair spilling in an orange cloud over her crimson robes. On a balcony overhead, a chorus splits the air with a rising lament-a sort of aural locust swarm-followed by a series of immense, loud gong-tones...
...other performers, that his conception was rarely in any way arbitrary. And perhaps even more praiseworthy was Mr. Berman's exceptional sensitivity to texture. Listening with score in hand, I was able to hear virtually every note functioning both harmonically and linearly within the fabric; and this aural perspicuity, once established, did not lapse even in the most delicate passages. Treated with such sensitive understanding, the works for piano solo presented Monday evening became intimate chamber music in the best sense...
...inevitable and delightful that our hero should also chew up one of the party streamers festooning the room. Buckets of water in the face, stones accidentally falling on innocent toes, police as easily misdirected as the Keystone Cops: it's all there. And in the only specifically aural gag, Chaplin swallows a whistle to create a hilarious variation of the hiccupping concert-goer who can't stop when the aria begins...
...company's regular stereo line with SQ. Even when heard under optimum conditions-at Columbia's laboratories in Stamford, Conn.-SQ is not so much a true four-channel sound as an electronic compromise. For some listeners, at least, the result is an uneasy feeling of aural vagueness...