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...hardly worthwhile to find little faults with the orchestra. Van Slyck conducted with confidence, kept the players together at all times, and built the music logically and skillfully. I did object to the concertmaster's obtrusive leadership throughout all the music--in the Bach his pizzicato was louder than the soloist's. The few peculiar noises which eminted from the violin section did not appear during the Bach work, possibly because of the foundation which the piano provided. All in all, the concert was a great success, a combination of good programming and superior performance...
...served a term in the New York State Assembly, had never met Wallace until the campaign. The left-wingers sent their doorbell-ringers all over the district, harangued the voters in English, Yiddish and Spanish. Their literature snowed under the other parties' polite handbills. They hired more and louder sound trucks...
Seldom in all its 57 years had Carnegie Hall been so jammed-and never so racked by such raucous music. The 200 fans on stage had the most tranquil spot: they were behind the brass. But out in front, the louder it got, the better they liked it. And no band yet had outblown Stan Kenton's for sheer...
...sounds enter left & right ears. He put headsets on eight "naive subjects" (not aware of the purpose of the experiment). Through one earphone came a recorded voice. Through the other came a sound like the hiss of steam. When the hiss was moderately loud, it made the speech sound louder, "as if the talker raises his voice in order to make himself heard above the noise...
...been laid, no train had made the estimated 30-hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...