Word: loudnesses
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...what goes on in the ring, it's hard to see why all this is happening, since wrestling doesn't seem very different from what it always was: men with very large muscles pretend to sock each other while stamping a foot on the canvas to make a loud noise. But wrestling has changed. No one claims anymore that the bouts are legitimate; indeed, to reassure families that they will not see real violence, the promoters now emphasize that wrestling is staged. Then there is the change in the characters and story lines developed for wrestlers. In the past...
...bedroom and study open unto Arrow Street [and] recently I have had my work seriously interrupted by an extremely loud bell...every quarter of the hour," said Eza Sims, a composer who works at home, at Tuesday's City Council meeting...
This confidence is exactly the message the organizers behind the vigil here this June 4 wanted their 40,000 candlelights to carry. But though the event was allowed to proceed with little governmental interference, people aren't so sure about the future. The local police broadcasted loud Beethoven symphonies at demonstrations on July 1 last year to drown out the shouts of protesters; many feel that the broadcast was only one of several recent signs that the government is slowly restricting their freedoms...
...have mild symptoms of presbycusis--"old-age hearing," Karnuta informs me--caused by gradual loss of the 30,000 tiny hairlike cells in the inner ear that respond to sound by signaling the auditory nerve to send electrical impulses to the brain. The noise of daily life, from loud music to jet planes to machinery, contributes to presbycusis, but the condition goes hand in hand with aging...
...setting of the most notorious event in the musical history of this century--the world premiere of The Rite of Spring. Trouble began with the playing of the first notes, in the ultrahigh register of the bassoon, as the renowned composer Camille Saint-Saens conspicuously walked out, complaining loudly of the misuse of the instrument. Soon other protests became so loud that the dancers could barely hear their cues. Fights broke out in the audience. Thus Modernism arrived in music, its calling card delivered by the 30-year-old Russian composer Igor Stravinsky...