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Instead, the auditorium was the site of an experimental classical program that took a scary though not entirely unrealistic look at the future of symphonic concertgoing. The performers were 34 string, wind, brass and percussion players, banded-and wired-together as the Electric Symphony Orchestra. The conductor was Daniell Revenaugh, 38, who believes among other things that the way to reach today's young audience is to overpower them, rock style, with sound. Says Revenaugh: "A high school girl in her bedroom can create more sound than a symphony orchestra." Not any more. The Electric Symphony was loud enough...
...audience through loudspeakers. The effect was sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...
...eliminate the hall itself. Going to hear an orchestra in a concert hall is a tradition that stems largely from the 19th century. Revenaugh would like to see music lovers allowed to walk in and out of a concert, indoors or out, as though strolling through national parks, parking lots or shopping centers. In fact, those are three locales in which he would like to perform next with his Electronic Symphony Orchestra...
HARVARD '44 DARTMOUTH '44 Aldrich or Teal, l.e. r.e., Revenaugh Malloti, l.t. r.t., Peacock DoCoster, l.g. r.g., Marion Gleason, c. c,m McCloskey Lawrence, r.g. l.g. Templeton Parson, r.t. l.t., Clark Cummings, r.e. l.e., McDevitt Geethals, q.b. q.b., Hood Johnson, l.h.b. r.h.b., Frost O'Donnell, r.h.b. i.h.b., Slusser And'rs'n or Cowen, f.b. f.b., McLaughry...
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