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...ever that Britain's destiny lies with the Continent. Born on the Kentish coast within sight of "the mainland," as he calls Europe, Heath showed such early promise that he won a grant to Chatham House, a school at nearby Ramsgate. His flair for music got him the organ scholarship to Oxford's Balliol College, and music remains his only real passion outside politics. A Steinway piano, much used, adorns his bachelor quarters in London's elegant 18th century Albany apartments. At Oxford, Teddy (he has since dropped the dy) was president of the Union (the debating...
There are no tickets left for Epower Bigga's two organ concerts, August...
Music had small charm for Donald Morton. He could not read a note; he had difficulty recognizing tunes; he could not easily tell the sound of one instrument from another. He could not distinguish between an orchestral performance and organ music. Still, by the time he was 35, Morton had learned all too well that there was some music he could tolerate-and some he could not. Loud, fast songs-college marches, the 1812 Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other...
...rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear, with the other, and then with both. He listened to a random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra, or by a piano with a vocalist chiming in, caused equal trouble. Eventually the doctors were ready to start "extinction therapy"-a sort of reverse Pavlovian conditioning in which...
Endless Tapes. In their effort to condition Morton to tolerate "noxious" music, the doctors decided to concentrate on Stardust because it was available in so many versions, so many combinations of instruments and artists. They taped "innocuous" (organ) renditions of the song and played those for Morton. Then they dubbed in larger and larger segments of a noxious Glenn Miller version and played the altered tape. They played it endlessly. Morton listened to dozens of variations and combinations of Stardust-6,000 times. Eventually it was "extinguished" as a cause of seizure...