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...fundamental failure of Chris Healey's production of The Pelican lies in its inability to immerse the audience in the mood and theme to the point where plot would become irrelevant and melodrama less of a hazard. Unhappily, the visual and aural effects through which Strindberg intended to achieve this are unsuccessful. Admittedly, conditions in the Ex don't make things any easier. The not-so-mysterious rocking chair rocks frantically and becomes at first funny, then ridiculous; a letter leaps, rather than flutters, off a table; vitally important silences and pauses are mercilessly trampled over. Delicate changes of mood...
...TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS (Atlantic, 2 LPs). Bright aural mosaics from small motifs are constructed on a Mahlerian scale in this 80-minute work of symphonic rock...
...Secret. Designing the acoustics in a modern concert hall is a difficult task, and results are not totally predictable. Avery Fisher (formerly Philharmonic) Hall in New York's Lincoln Center is the classic case of aural bad luck. Twelve years after its opening, it still has glum sound, despite millions of dollars spent in revisions. Two of its most distinguished visitors, the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, will pack up and move back to venerable Carnegie Hall next season...
...rhythms of natural speech. His characters speak that elliptical language made familiar by Pinter--a series of monologues that only rarely intersect, made up of short-circuited sentences, non-sequiturs and repetitions. The special idiom of the absurdist play demands from its actors a particular sensitivity to the purely aural qualities of speech as well as split-second timing and O'Brien never lets his cast miss a beat...
These and many other aural Rip Van Winkles have returned from a generation's oblivion to find themselves the heroes and heroines of a fast-growing, nationwide cult. Through clubs, catalogues and newsletters, tens of thousands of fans and some 4,000 active traders are collecting and listening to tapes and cassettes of programs from the golden age of radio-an era that lasted roughly from the 1930s to the early...