Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILL EVANS: CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF (Verve). No one in jazz broods quite as beautifully as Bill Evans, a player of inner-ear music so intensely private that just hearing it seems an intrusion. Here, by means of three spliced piano sound tracks, Evans converses aloud with himself with out eavesdropping sidemen. In the unique trio for pianos that results, his accompaniment of himself is a fascinating treatise on his icy musical intelligence...
Lockheed's echo-location system may some day have an important impact on antisubmarine warfare, for it shows that the human ear, when working with the proper mixed frequencies, can determine the composition of an unseen object. This could correct a major failing in present sonar systems in which whales are sometimes mistaken for ene my submarines. It may also put the Seeing-Eye dog out of business. Lockheed scientists hope to reduce the sound generator to the size of a flashlight; then the blind may learn to "see" with their skilled ears...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...
...denied that any "of these instances in any way involved my official responsibilities." Added Korth: "I deeply resent any insinuation that these few trivial incidents and communications raise a question concerning my character." Korth, who spent last week in Bethesda Naval Medical Center for a long-delayed ear operation, insisted that his resignation was entirely voluntary, that he quit because of policy differences with McNamara and personal financial problems. Aides further explained that his salary of $22,500 was only a little more than half of his former salary as bank president. He maintained large homes in both Washington...
...athletic but correct. His baton sweeps in wide, generous arcs and his left hand constantly beckons music from the air. His body dips and sways like a dancer's, and his classic profile flashes now right, now left, like a lighthouse beacon. He has a nearly perfect ear for balancing orchestra and singers, and the Met chorus never sounds better than it does with Schippers conducting. Though emotion sometimes drives him into hurried tempi, he has a strong sense of opera that keeps his music in sympathetic concert with the libretto-which he soundlessly sings through in every performance...